USA Poll 11/26

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2001

11/26/2001

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (59)	1,499	1
2	Florida (1)	1,432	3
3	Texas	1,358	5
4	Tennessee	1,289	6
5	Oregon	1,257	7
6	Nebraska	1,104	2
7	BYU	1,080	8
7	Maryland	1,080	9
9	Illinois	1,065	10
10	Colorado	991	14
11	Oklahoma	915	4
12	Stanford	817	13
13	Virginia Tech	763	15
14	Washington State	699	16
15	South Carolina	596	18
16	Michigan	553	11
17	Syracuse	458	21
18	Marshall	425	20
19	Georgia	420	23
20	Washington	397	12
21	Fresno State	334	22
22	Auburn	223	24
23	Louisville	205	17
24	LSU	164	NR
25	Ohio State	105	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.