USA Poll 10/7

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2002

10/7/2002

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (60)	1,524	1
2	Texas (1)	1,423	2
3	Oklahoma	1,405	3
4	Virginia Tech	1,346	4
5	Ohio State	1,260	5
6	Georgia	1,220	6
7	Oregon	1,147	7
8	Notre Dame	1,116	9
9	Tennessee	974	10
10	Michigan	891	13
11	NC State	828	14
12	Florida State	816	11
13	Washington State	763	17
14	Iowa State	727	18
15	LSU	655	19
16	Florida	542	8
17	Penn State	541	21
18	Washington	349	12
19	Air Force	328	25
20	Iowa	317	NR
21	Auburn	305	24
22	Wisconsin	285	15
23	Kansas State	267	16
24	USC	154	20
25	UCLA	129	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.