USA Poll 11/5

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2001

11/5/2001

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (41)	1,479	1
2	Nebraska (18)	1,456	2
3	Florida (1)	1,346	3
4	Oklahoma	1,330	4
5	Texas	1,256	5
6	Tennessee	1,173	7
7	Oregon	1,080	9
8	Washington	1,078	10
9	BYU	1,074	8
10	Florida State	880	14
11	Maryland	767	16
12	Washington State	758	19
13	Michigan	755	6
14	Illinois	749	18
15	South Carolina	596	20
16	UCLA	570	11
17	Georgia Tech	513	21
18	Syracuse	463	22
19	Stanford	422	13
20	Colorado	317	25
21	Georgia	303	23
22	Virginia Tech	286	12
23	Michigan State	154	NR
24	Purdue	145	15
25	Louisville	141	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.