USA Poll Final

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2001

1/4/2002

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (60)	1,500	1
2	Oregon	1,434	3
3	Florida	1,351	6
4	Tennessee	1,284	2
5	Texas	1,207	10
6	Oklahoma	1,141	11
7	Nebraska	1,101	4
8	LSU	1,099	20
9	Colorado	1,031	5
10	Maryland	885	7
11	Washington State	879	13
12	Illinois	846	9
13	South Carolina	837	14
14	Syracuse	736	17
15	Florida State	556	24
16	Louisville	524	22
17	Stanford	502	12
18	Virginia Tech	394	16
19	Washington	369	19
20	Michigan	363	15
21	Marshall	223	25
22	Toledo	188	NR
23	Boston College	174	NR
24	BYU	172	8
25	Georgia	163	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.