USA Poll 8/26

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2002

8/26/2002

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (42)	1,466	1
2	Texas (10)	1,424	2
3	Oklahoma (7)	1,400	3
4	Tennessee	1,266	5
5	Florida State (2)	1,216	4
6	Colorado	1,085	6
7	Florida	1,072	7
8	Nebraska	1,037	8
9	Washington	936	9
10	Michigan	886	10
11	Ohio State	878	12
12	Georgia	858	11
13	Washington State	756	14
14	LSU	751	13
15	Oregon	663	15
16	Virginia Tech	644	16
17	Michigan State	414	18
18	Louisville	407	17
19	USC	359	19
20	Maryland	340	20
21	South Carolina	243	22
22	Marshall	240	21
23	Penn State	181	24
24	NC State	177	25
25	Wisconsin	176	23

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.