USA Poll 9/24

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2001

9/24/2001

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (34)	1,453	1
2	Florida (14)	1,423	2
3	Oklahoma (9)	1,377	3
4	Nebraska (1)	1,311	4
5	Texas	1,239	6
6	Oregon (1)	1,120	7
7	Virginia Tech	1,104	9
8	Tennessee	1,090	8
9	Kansas State	980	10
10	UCLA	914	12
11	Georgia Tech	907	11
12	Washington	837	13
13	Fresno State (1)	770	15
14	LSU	705	14
15	Florida State	679	5
16	South Carolina	574	20
17	Michigan	564	17
18	Northwestern	546	19
19	Oregon State	338	22
20	BYU	267	25
21	Purdue	252	24
22	Mississippi State	162	16
23	Illinois	132	NR
24	Michigan State	120	NR
25	Clemson	98	18

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.