USA Poll 10/22

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2001

10/22/2001

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (47)	1,481	1
2	Oklahoma (13)	1,444	2
3	Nebraska	1,385	3
4	Virginia Tech	1,298	4
5	UCLA	1,277	6
6	Florida	1,155	7
7	Texas	1,136	8
8	Michigan	1,077	9
9	Tennessee	948	11
10	BYU	856	13
11	Washington	846	12
12	Maryland	843	14
13	Oregon	793	5
14	South Carolina	708	16
15	Washington State	620	18
16	Georgia	598	19
17	Auburn	499	21
18	Florida State	403	22
19	Fresno State	373	10
20	Purdue	290	24
21	Georgia Tech	267	25
22	Stanford	255	NR
23	Illinois	244	NR
24	Texas A&M	202	NR
25	Clemson	90	15

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.