USA Poll 11/25

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2002

11/25/2002

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (60)	1,524	1
2	Ohio State (1)	1,462	2
3	Iowa	1,377	4
4	Oklahoma	1,346	5
5	Georgia	1,253	6
6	USC	1,195	7
7	Notre Dame	1,146	8
8	Kansas State	1,089	10
9	Washington State	1,025	3
10	Texas	991	11
11	Florida	865	13
12	Penn State	784	16
13	Colorado State	760	15
14	Michigan	741	9
15	Colorado	698	17
16	Boise State	499	21
17	LSU	468	20
18	Pittsburgh	406	19
19	Virginia Tech	370	12
20	NC State	354	NR
21	West Virginia	293	NR
22	Florida State	272	14
23	Maryland	175	18
24	Hawaii	157	25
25	Auburn	147	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.