USA Poll 9/3

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2001

9/3/2001

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (26)	1,439	1
2	Miami (22)	1,423	2
3	Oklahoma (9)	1,370	3
4	Nebraska (1)	1,248	4
5	Florida State	1,244	5
6	Texas (1)	1,184	6
7	Tennessee	1,090	8
8	Oregon (1)	1,083	7
9	Virginia Tech	985	9
10	Michigan	879	10
11	Kansas State	850	11
12	Oregon State	826	12
13	Georgia Tech	684	14
14	UCLA	676	15
15	Washington	632	13
16	LSU	594	16
17	Notre Dame	527	17
18	Mississippi State	489	19
19	Clemson	480	18
20	Northwestern	365	20
21	South Carolina	285	22
22	Ohio State	260	21
23	Wisconsin	132	23
24	Georgia	105	NR
25	Purdue	88	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.