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Sept. 20, 2009
Rank	Team (first-place votes)	Record	Points	Last week
1.	Florida (59)	3-0	1,475	1
2.	Texas	3-0	1,412	2
3.	Alabama	3-0	1,355	4
4.	Penn State	3-0	1,274	5
5.	Mississippi	2-0	1,182	6
6.	California	3-0	1,149	7 (tie)
7.	LSU	3-0	1,122	7 (tie)
8.	Boise State	3-0	976	10
9.	Oklahoma	2-1	917	12
10.	Southern California	2-1	905	3
11.	Ohio State	2-1	900	11
12.	Virginia Tech	2-1	853	14
13.	Miami (Fla.)	2-0	724	22
14.	TCU	2-0	701	15
15.	Cincinnati	3-0	580	21
16.	Oklahoma State	2-1	576	17
17.	Georgia	2-1	457	20
18.	North Carolina	3-0	445	19
19.	Kansas	3-0	381	23
20.	Brigham Young	2-1	279	9
21.	Missouri	3-0	214	25
22.	Michigan	3-0	205	NR
23.	Houston	2-0	160	NR
24.	Nebraska	2-1	158	18
25.	Florida State	2-1	154	NR
Dropped out
No. 13 Georgia Tech (2-1, lost to then-No. 22 Miami, Fla., 33-17), No. 16 Utah (2-1, lost to Oregon 31-24), No. 24 Oregon State (2-1, lost to then-No. 21 Cincinnati 28-18).
Others receiving votes
Georgia Tech 148; Pittsburgh 68; Utah 63; Auburn 62; Iowa 58; Washington 42; Notre Dame 38; UCLA 38; Oregon 34; Texas Tech 22; Kentucky 16; South Florida 12; South Carolina 7; Oregon State 6; Colorado State 4; Wisconsin 2; Minnesota 1.
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.