USA Poll 11/12

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2001

11/12/2001

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (30)	1,469	2
2	Miami (28)	1,459	1
3	Florida (2)	1,350	3
4	Oklahoma	1,329	4
5	Texas	1,261	5
6	Tennessee	1,183	6
7	Oregon	1,136	7
8	BYU	1,055	9
9	Maryland	956	11
10	Washington State	926	12
11	Michigan	902	13
12	Illinois	860	14
13	Syracuse	703	18
14	Washington	658	8
15	Stanford	639	19
16	Colorado	605	20
17	Virginia Tech	505	22
18	Auburn	394	NR
19	Louisville	383	25
20	Florida State	361	10
21	UCLA	278	16
22	South Carolina	251	15
23	Georgia Tech	161	17
24	Marshall	139	NR
25	Fresno State	74	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.