USA Poll 12/3

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2001

12/3/2001

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (59)	1,499	1
2	Tennessee	1,419	4
3	Oregon	1,349	5
4	Nebraska	1,267	6
5	Colorado	1,212	10
6	Florida	1,132	2
7	Maryland	1,126	8
8	BYU (1)	1,094	7
8	Illinois	1,094	9
10	Texas	1,003	3
11	Oklahoma	902	11
12	Stanford	852	12
13	Washington State	742	14
14	South Carolina	654	15
15	Michigan	617	16
16	Virginia Tech	610	13
17	Syracuse	526	17
18	Georgia	475	19
19	Washington	401	20
20	LSU	358	24
21	Fresno State	345	21
22	Louisville	208	23
23	Ohio State	181	25
24	Florida State	129	NR
25	Marshall	70	18

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.