USA Poll 10/28

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2002

10/28/2002

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (53)	1,517	1
2	Oklahoma (7)	1,464	2
3	Virginia Tech	1,371	3
4	Ohio State	1,311	4
5	Georgia	1,300	5
6	Notre Dame (1)	1,264	6
7	Texas	1,138	7
8	NC State	1,105	9
9	Washington State	1,006	11
10	Iowa	975	14
11	USC	895	16
12	Colorado	686	20
13	Michigan	680	8
14	Kansas State	639	21
15	LSU	588	10
16	Oregon	556	12
17	Arizona State	472	25
18	Bowling Green	441	22
19	Minnesota	426	24
20	Florida State	344	13
21	Penn State	244	17
22	Florida	203	23
23	Iowa State	198	18
24	Colorado State	190	NR
25	Marshall	181	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.