USA Poll 12/5

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2005

12/5/2005

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (55)	1,543	1
2	Texas (7)	1,495	2
3	Penn State	1,424	4
4	Ohio State	1,300	6
5	Oregon	1,234	8
6	Notre Dame	1,219	7
7	Auburn	1,141	9
8	Georgia	1,097	13
9	Miami	1,075	10
10	LSU	1,002	3
11	West Virginia	959	12
12	Virginia Tech	955	5
13	Alabama	787	14
14	TCU	734	15
15	Texas Tech	636	16
16	Louisville	585	17
17	UCLA	531	11
18	Florida	530	18
19	Boston College	427	19
20	Wisconsin	399	20
21	Michigan	274	21
22	Florida State	256	23
23	Clemson	191	24
24	Georgia Tech	114	25
25	Iowa	95	26

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.