USA Poll 10/8

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2001

10/8/2001

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (25)	1,449	1
2	Florida (25)	1,445	2
3	Oklahoma (10)	1,397	3
4	Nebraska	1,325	4
5	Virginia Tech	1,225	6
6	Oregon	1,184	8
7	UCLA	1,131	9
8	Washington	1,061	10
9	South Carolina	930	12
10	Fresno State	927	11
11	Texas	906	5
12	Michigan	812	15
13	Florida State	759	14
14	Tennessee	650	7
15	Georgia Tech	618	17
16	Purdue	548	19
17	BYU	515	18
18	Clemson	388	21
19	Texas A&M	329	22
20	Maryland	298	25
21	Kansas State	215	13
22	Stanford	210	24
23	Toledo	193	23
24	Northwestern	177	16
25	Ohio State	171	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.