USA Today Poll - Week 15

• believer

  

  USA Today Poll - Week 15
  
  1 Alabama (54) 13-0 1470
  2 Texas (4) 13-0 1409
  3 TCU 12-0 1336
  4 Cincinnati (1) 12-0 1280
  5 Florida 12-1 1240
  6 Boise State 13-0 1216
  7 Oregon 10-2 1096
  8 Ohio State 10-2 1077
  9 Penn State 10-2 950
  10 Georgia Tech 11-2 921
  11 Iowa 10-2 918
  12 Virginia Tech 9-3 829
  13 LSU 9-3 718
  14 Brigham Young 10-2 702
  15 Miami (FL) 9-3 611
  16 Pittsburgh 9-3 506
  17 West Virginia 9-3 429
  18 Oklahoma State 9-3 404
  19 Nebraska 9-4 391
  20 Oregon State 8-4 368
  21 Stanford 8-4 253
  22 Wisconsin 9-3 247
  23 Arizona 8-4 237
  24 Utah 9-3 183
  25 Houston 10-3 106
• believer

  

  How does Iowa end up 2 slots below Penn State? wow
• devil1197

  believer wrote: How does Iowa end up 2 slots below Penn State? wow

  Not sure, but it should have been GT #9, Iowa #10, and PSU #11.
• believer

  

  ^^ Agree
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  Wow, Iowa 11, that is bullshit. GT should be ahead of both PSU and Iowa as well.
• believer

  

  ^^^It is bullshit.
• dwccrew

  

  Cincy with one first place vote is the real travesty here!
• jpake1

  

  Doesn't matter. WVU is behind Pitt as well. Most voters look at the 12-13 game schedule and take 1 game for exactly what it is, 1 game. I understand their records are the same. Some voters give the edge to the team that won. Other voters give the edge to that team that lost to two top 11 teams while the other lost to NWU.
• devil1197

  Not sure anyone agrees, but I think Wisconsin should be ranked higher, atleast inside the Top 20. They will win their bowl game, hopefully the Outback Bowl. This team will be very good next year with Tolzien, Clay, Ball, and Toon on offense.
• believer

  

  dwccrew wrote: Cincy with one first place vote is the real travesty here!

  Kelly wants that ND job....whatever it takes!
• jpake1

  

  I look for Wisky to be good too. I estimate they'll return 15 starters from off/def. I look at next year as the year the Big 10 really earns a lot of respect back. OSU should be very good. Iowa should return around 16 starters.
• Tigerfan00

  

  Penn State has to be laughing their butts off after seeing that and JoePa probably crapped while in the process of laughing.
• jpake1

  

  It really doesn't matter, thus I don't think most of the coaches care. They know they're eligible for a big bowl game whether they're 9th or 11th.
• believer

  

  ^^^LMAO!
• mallymal614

  USC dropped out!
  
  When the last time that happen?
• jordo212000

  

  This terrible. I really can't believe Texas got 4 first place votes, that is a joke. Somebody desperately wanted to make sure they didn't slide out of #2
• trep14

  Anybody who voted for Texas at #1 should have their voting privileges revoked.
• believer

  

  jordo212000 wrote: This terrible. I really can't believe Texas got 4 first place votes, that is a joke. Somebody desperately wanted to make sure they didn't slide out of #2

  See the highlighted names below:
  
  USA Today
  
  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.
  
  
• chicago510

  

  Don't they release the votes in the final poll? Or am I making that up?
• jpake1

  

  They do.