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Rank Team (first-place votes) Record Points Last week
1. Florida (58) 4-0 1,474 1
2. Texas (1) 4-0 1,410 2
3. Alabama 4-0 1,364 3
4. LSU 4-0 1,226 7
5. Boise State 4-0 1,144 8
6. Virginia Tech 3-1 1,091 12
7. Southern California 3-1 1,081 10
8. Oklahoma 2-1 1,055 9
9. Ohio State 3-1 1,036 11
10. TCU 3-0 928 14
11. Cincinnati 4-0 848 15
12. Oklahoma State 3-1 665 16
13. Penn State 3-1 627 4
14. Georgia 3-1 616 17
15. Houston 3-0 539 23
16. Kansas 4-0 508 19
17. Iowa 4-0 462 NR
18. Mississippi 2-1 424 5
19. California 3-1 356 6
20. Michigan 4-0 304 22
21. (tie) Miami (Fla.) 2-1 298 13
21. (tie) Brigham Young 3-1 298 20
23. Missouri 4-0 295 21
24. Nebraska 3-1 242 24
25. Oregon 3-1 198 NR

Dropped out
No. 18 North Carolina (3-1, lost to Georgia Tech 24-7), No. 25 Florida State (2-2, lost to South Florida 17-7).

Others receiving votes
Georgia Tech (3-1) 186; South Florida (4-0) 117; Auburn (4-0) 103; South Carolina (3-1) 92; Wisconsin (4-0) 53; Utah (3-1) 40; UCLA (3-0) 27; Notre Dame (3-1) 23; Stanford (3-1) 20; North Carolina State (3-1) 8; North Carolina (3-1) 7; Florida State (2-2) 4; Arizona (3-1) 2; Minnesota (3-1) 2; Rutgers (3-1) 1; Texas A&M (3-0) 1.

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The USA TODAY Board of Coaches is made up of 59 head coaches at Division I-A institutions. All are members of the American Football Coaches Association. The board for the 2009 season: Robb Akey, Idaho; Gary Andersen, Utah State; David Bailiff, Rice; Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech; Tim Beckman, Toledo; Bobby Bowden, Florida State; Tim Brewster, Minnesota; J.D. Brookhart, Akron; Rich Brooks, Kentucky; Troy Calhoun, Air Force; Neil Callaway, UAB; Dave Christensen, Wyoming; Dave Clawson, Bowling Green; Mario Cristobal, Florida International; David Cutcliffe, Duke; Mark Dantonio, Michigan State; Butch Davis, North Carolina; Todd Dodge, North Texas; Ron English, Eastern Michigan; Larry Fedora, Southern Miss; Al Golden, Temple; Jim Grobe, Wake Forest; Jim Harbaugh, Stanford; Dan Hawkins, Colorado; Brian Kelly, Cincinnati; Steve Kragthorpe, Louisville; Mike Leach, Texas Tech; Jim Leavitt, South Florida; Bill Lynch, Indiana; Les Miles, LSU; Dan Mullen, Mississippi State; Rick Neuheisel, UCLA; Ken Niumatalolo, Navy; Tom O'Brien, N.C. State; Stan Parrish, Ball State; Gary Patterson, TCU; Bo Pelini, Nebraska; Chris Petersen, Boise State; Gary Pinkel, Missouri; Mark Richt, Georgia; Mike Riley, Oregon State; Rich Rodriguez, Michigan; Nick Saban, Alabama; Mike Sanford, UNLV; Greg Schiano, Rutgers; Mike Sherman, Texas A&M; Steve Spurrier, South Carolina; Rick Stockstill, Middle Tennessee; Bob Stoops, Oklahoma; Kevin Sumlin, Houston; Jeff Tedford, California; Bob Toledo, Tulane; Jim Tressel, Ohio State; DeWayne Walker, New Mexico State; Charlie Weatherbie, Louisiana-Monroe; Charlie Weis, Notre Dame; Tommy West, Memphis; Paul Wulff, Washington State; Ron Zook, Illinois.


The AFCA prohibits coaches from voting for schools on major NCAA probation.

AP poll.

1 Florida (55) 4-0 1490
2 Texas (1) 4-0 1420
3 Alabama (4) 4-0 1400
4 LSU 4-0 1225
5 Boise State 4-0 1203
6 Virginia Tech 3-1 1190
7 USC 3-1 998
8 Oklahoma 2-1 979
9 Ohio State 3-1 957
10 Cincinnati 4-0 946
11 TCU 3-0 896
12 Houston 3-0 844
13 Iowa 4-0 788
14 Oklahoma State 3-1 591
15 Penn State 3-1 470
16 Oregon 3-1 462
17 Miami (FL) 2-1 452
18 Kansas 4-0 418
18 Georgia 3-1 418
20 Brigham Young 3-1 349
21 Mississippi 2-1 340
22 Michigan 4-0 271
23 Nebraska 3-1 256
24 California 3-1 206
25 Georgia Tech 3-1 185

AP Poll has Houston ranked about right.

SMU 86 wrote:AP Poll has Houston ranked about right.

And the Coach's Poll continues to screw them. UH should be ahead of Oklahoma St. in any ranking as far as I am concerned.

Yeah I didn't get why OK State would be ahead of Houston in any way and after they beat TT...they should have earned that respect.....AP got it right...

Why is Boise number 5 and Houston 12? I guess the Oregon win looks more impressive now?

SMU21TCU10 wrote:Why is Boise number 5 and Houston 12? I guess the Oregon win looks more impressive now?

Very much so, and Boise has props from last season.

I have never thought Andy Dalton was anything but average but he really never hurts his team. As much as I hate to admit it-TCU just may deserve the ranking they have right now.

TCU has earned that rank after years of success on the football field and having gone on the road to beat UVA and Clemson already. I'm anxious to see whether we can compete with what many believe is the 10th best team in the country.

SMU +28 is the early line for Saturday game. Thoughts from the pony fans on an SMU cover? I'm not sure