Coaches Poll

Rank, School, Record, Points, Previous

1. Notre Dame (56), 12-0, 1470, 1
2. Alabama (3), 12-1, 1417, 2
3. Oregon, 11-1, 1313, 4
4. Florida, 11-1, 1287, 5
5. Georgia, 11-2, 1216, 3
6. Kansas St., 11-1, 1190, 7
7. LSU, 10-2, 1111, 6
8. Stanford, 11-2, 1047, 9
9. Texas A&M, 10-2, 1039, 8
10. South Carolina, 10-2, 947, 10
11. Oklahoma, 10-2, 890, 11
12. Florida St., 11-2, 853, 12
13. Clemson, 10-2, 769, 14
14. Oregon St., 9-3, 663, 17
15. Boise St., 10-2, 569, 15
16. N. Illinois, 12-1, 495, 18
17. Northwestern, 9-3, 444, 20
18. Louisville, 10-2, 409, 23
19. UCLA, 9-4, 408, 16
20. Utah St., 10-2, 334, 22
21. Nebraska, 10-3, 328, 13
22. Michigan, 8-4, 278, 24
23. Wisconsin, 8-5, 115, NR
24. San Jose St., 10-2, 110, NR
25. Texas, 8-4, 97, 21

Schools Dropped Out
No. 19 Kent State (11-2), No. 25 Rutgers (9-3).

Others Receiving Votes
Kent State (11-2) 84; Vanderbilt (8-4) 75; Cincinnati (9-3) 46; Tulsa (10-3) 32; Fresno State (9-3) 31; Rutgers (9-3) 29; San Diego State (9-3) 23; Arkansas State (9-3) 20; Oklahoma State (7-5) 15; Mississippi State (8-4) 9; Arizona State (7-5) 8; Louisiana Tech (9-3) 2; Southern California (7-5) 2.


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AP Poll (does not figure into BCS)

Rank, School, Record, Points, Previous

1. Notre Dame (60), 12-0, 1500, 1
2. Alabama, 12-1, 1424, 2
3. Ohio State, 12-0, 1302, 4
4. Florida, 11-1, 1279, 5
5. Oregon, 11-1, 1250, 6
6. Georgia, 11-2, 1213, 3
7. Kansas St., 11-1, 1129, 7
8. Stanford, 11-2, 1094, 8
9. LSU, 10-2, 1051, 9
10. Texas A&M, 10-2, 1025, 10
11. South Carolina, 10-2, 907, 12
12. Oklahoma, 10-2, 851, 12
13. Florida St., 11-2, 789, 13
14. Clemson, 10-2, 691, 15
15. Oregon St., 9-3, 638, 16
16. N. Illinois, 12-1, 534, 19
17. UCLA, 9-4, 440, 17
17. Northwestern, 9-3, 444, 20
18. Utah St., 10-2, 379, 20
19. Michigan, 8-4, 306, 21
20. Boise St., 10-2, 276, 25
21. Northwestern, 9-3, 266, 22
22. Louisville, 10-2, 248, NR
23. Nebraska, 10-3, 227, 14
24. San Jose St., 10-2, 157, NR
25. Kent St., 11-2, 117, 18

Others receiving votes: Penn St. 83, Vanderbilt 67, Wisconsin 62, Texas 51, San Diego St. 22, Fresno St. 20, Baylor 15, Cincinnati 15, Oklahoma St. 15, TCU 14, Arkansas St. 13, Southern Cal 11, Tulsa 9, Rutgers 6, Ball St. 2, North Carolina 1, West Virginia 1.

Do not like Georgia above K State

Northern Illinois holding onto hope for the BCS spot, as Boise stayed at 15 in the coaches poll, and NIU jumped from 18 to 16.

Ironman92;1334499 wrote:Do not like Georgia above K State

No SEC bias.

SEC teams should all start the season with 1 loss on their record....and then just everyone vote straight up from there.

NIU will pass Boise with the computers.

It's going to be close with Michigan, Northwestern, and maybe still UCLA. Nebraska losing makes it even more interesting with how far they fell here.

AP added, OSU is 3

Brad Edwards ‏@JBradEdwards Now with coaches' poll numbers, I have it very, very close in the 15-17 spots with UCLA, Nebraska and Northern Illinois

Jerry Palm at CBS:

Jerry Palm, CBS wrote:UPDATE (12:45 ET): The coaches poll is out and it's bad news for NIU. Kind of. The current BCS projection has them 17th, but only .005 behind No. 15 UCLA. Yes, you read that right. No. 15. Nebraska has fallen to 16th, wedged in that tight space between the two.

The Huskies only had a 95 point lead over UCLA. That means to catch UCLA, based on my current computer ranking projections, they would need to have a 291 point lead over the Bruins in the Harris poll to pass them. That's an average of a 2.5 spot difference per voter.

Passing Nebraska might now be easier. Again, based on my current computer projections, NIU would need a 394 point margin over the Huskers to pass them in the BCS.

And if the computers projections are closer for NIU, then they need less juice in the polls. One spot in a computer that matters, going either direction, is the equivalent of 29 Harris poll points.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/blog/jerry-palm/21224824/projected-bcs-niu-lands-bcs-bowl-spot-for-now

Edwards revises to put NIU in top 16. Says he's been conservative with their computer rankings.

sleeper;1334503 wrote:No SEC bias.

Hell, if they were placed in the position that Kent State and Northern Illinois were, they both would have jumped into the top 10.