USA Poll 9/9

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2002

9/9/2002

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (58)	1,520	1
2	Texas (2)	1,413	2
3	Oklahoma	1,346	3
4	Tennessee	1,332	4
5	Florida State (1)	1,281	5
6	Michigan	1,160	7
7	Nebraska	1,095	8
8	Ohio State	1,067	9
9	Virginia Tech	1,007	10
10	Georgia	967	11
11	Washington State	872	12
12	Oregon	809	13
13	Florida	747	6
14	Washington	645	14
15	Michigan State	602	15
16	USC	497	16
17	Marshall	432	18
18	Wisconsin	400	21
19	Colorado	391	17
20	NC State	379	22
21	Notre Dame	313	24
22	LSU	232	23
23	Texas A&M	173	NR
24	BYU	164	NR
25	Penn State	144	25

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.