USA Poll 10/14

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2002

10/14/2002

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (58)	1,522	1
2	Oklahoma (3)	1,457	3
3	Virginia Tech	1,386	4
4	Ohio State	1,320	5
5	Georgia	1,286	6
6	Oregon	1,203	7
7	Notre Dame	1,164	8
8	Texas	1,062	2
9	Michigan	993	10
10	NC State	965	11
11	Washington State	868	13
12	LSU	846	15
13	Iowa State	836	14
14	Florida State	674	12
15	Air Force	565	19
16	Iowa	553	20
17	Washington	531	18
18	Tennessee	528	9
19	Kansas State	453	23
20	USC	330	24
21	Penn State	257	17
22	Mississippi	165	NR
23	Bowling Green	155	NR
24	Florida	123	16
25	Colorado	92	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.