USA Poll 9/30

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2002

9/30/2002

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (59)	1,523	1
2	Texas (2)	1,444	2
3	Oklahoma	1,410	3
4	Virginia Tech	1,321	5
5	Ohio State	1,275	6
6	Georgia	1,190	7
7	Oregon	1,103	8
8	Florida	1,082	9
9	Notre Dame	1,026	10
10	Tennessee	921	11
11	Florida State	844	4
12	Washington	834	13
13	Michigan	752	14
14	NC State	724	15
15	Wisconsin	630	16
16	Kansas State	623	17
17	Washington State	533	18
18	Iowa State	524	21
19	LSU	437	20
20	USC	429	22
21	Penn State	249	12
22	Colorado State	246	23
23	Texas A&M	120	NR
24	Auburn	116	25
25	Air Force	96	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.