USA Poll 9/2

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2002

9/2/2002

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (49)	1,500	1
2	Texas (5)	1,410	2
3	Oklahoma (4)	1,372	3
4	Tennessee	1,318	4
5	Florida State (2)	1,249	5
6	Florida	1,207	7
7	Michigan	1,087	10
8	Nebraska	1,045	8
9	Ohio State	965	11
10	Virginia Tech	915	16
11	Georgia	891	12
12	Washington State (1)	835	13
13	Oregon	819	15
14	Washington	631	9
15	Michigan State	611	17
16	USC	423	19
17	Colorado	390	6
18	Marshall	374	22
19	South Carolina	320	21
20	Colorado State	264	NR
21	Wisconsin	258	25
22	NC State	248	24
23	LSU	239	14
24	Notre Dame	198	NR
25	Penn State	195	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.