USA Poll 9/16

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2002

9/16/2002

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (58)	1,522	1
2	Texas (2)	1,419	2
3	Oklahoma (1)	1,393	3
4	Tennessee	1,345	4
5	Florida State	1,294	5
6	Ohio State	1,202	8
7	Virginia Tech	1,153	9
8	Georgia	1,049	10
9	Oregon	1,005	12
10	Florida	869	13
11	USC	844	16
12	Notre Dame	789	21
13	Washington	723	14
14	Michigan	673	6
15	Penn State	625	25
16	NC State	555	20
17	Wisconsin	475	18
18	Washington State	470	11
19	Nebraska	462	7
20	LSU	361	22
21	Texas A&M	330	23
22	UCLA	247	NR
23	Kansas State	225	NR
24	Iowa State	154	NR
25	Colorado State	150	NR

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.