USA Poll 12/7

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2008

12/7/2008

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (31)	1,482	2
2	Florida (26)	1,481	4
3	Texas (4)	1,408	3
4	USC	1,309	5
4	Alabama	1,309	1
6	Penn State	1,193	6
7	Utah	1,134	7
8	Texas Tech	1,132	8
9	Boise State	1,034	9
10	Ohio State	1,004	10
11	TCU	877	11
12	Cincinnati	830	12
13	Oregon	747	14
14	Oklahoma State	722	15
15	Georgia Tech	690	16
16	BYU	541	18
17	Georgia	537	19
18	Michigan State	466	21
19	Virginia Tech	337	NR
20	Northwestern	334	22
21	Pittsburgh	316	23
22	Ball State	219	13
23	Missouri	218	17
24	Mississippi	160	25
25	Oregon State	131	24

Coaches' Poll
Started in 1950.

More Info

The Coaches' Poll began as a top 20 list in 1950 and was published by United Press International (UPI). In 1990 the poll began listing the top 25 teams.

This poll was published by the UPI until 1991 when USA Today and CNN took it over. ESPN replaced CNN in 1997 as the co-sponsor. After the controversial results in the BCS in 2004, ESPN left and the poll is currently run by USA Today only.

Since the inception of the BCS, the Coaches' Poll must vote the number one team in the BCS poll as number one also. This was supposed to eliminate the possibility of split national titles until the before mentioned 2004 controversy. The winner of the Coaches' Poll is awarded the Waterford Crystal National Championship Coaches' Trophy.