USA Poll 10/29

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2001

10/29/2001

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (46)	1,486	1
2	Nebraska (14)	1,454	3
3	Florida	1,308	6
4	Oklahoma	1,263	2
5	Texas	1,259	7
6	Michigan	1,186	8
7	Tennessee	1,112	9
8	BYU	999	10
9	Oregon	963	13
10	Washington	953	11
11	UCLA	936	5
12	Virginia Tech	925	4
13	Stanford	719	22
14	Florida State	704	18
15	Purdue	541	20
16	Maryland	510	12
17	Texas A&M	411	24
18	Illinois	402	23
19	Washington State	386	15
20	South Carolina	360	14
21	Georgia Tech	330	21
22	Syracuse	286	NR
23	Georgia	239	16
24	Clemson	160	25
25	Colorado	145	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.