USA Poll 8/29

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2000

8/29/2000

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (40)	1,446	1
2	Florida State (17)	1,416	2
3	Alabama (1)	1,305	3
4	Michigan	1,214	4
5	Wisconsin (1)	1,211	5
6	Miami	1,112	6
7	Florida	1,088	7
8	Texas	1,040	8
9	Kansas State	989	9
10	Virginia Tech	955	10
11	Georgia	924	11
12	Tennessee	831	12
13	USC	747	16
14	Purdue	663	13
15	Washington	606	14
16	Ohio State	564	15
17	Mississippi	417	18
18	Clemson	392	19
19	Oklahoma	347	20
20	Illinois	300	21
21	TCU	250	23
22	Michigan State	225	22
23	Texas A&M	215	24
24	Colorado	154	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.