USA Poll 11/11

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2002

11/11/2002

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (61)	1,525	1
2	Ohio State	1,462	3
3	Texas	1,363	4
4	Washington State	1,310	5
5	Iowa	1,275	6
6	Oklahoma	1,222	2
7	Georgia	1,142	8
8	USC	1,066	9
9	Notre Dame	1,019	10
10	Michigan	967	11
11	Kansas State	948	12
12	LSU	786	14
13	Virginia Tech	754	7
14	Florida	642	17
15	Florida State	609	18
16	Penn State	539	19
17	Colorado State	508	20
18	Colorado	442	21
19	Maryland	433	25
20	NC State	419	13
21	Pittsburgh	407	23
22	Oregon	284	15
23	Boise State	171	NR
24	TCU	120	NR
25	Bowling Green	113	16

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.