USA Poll 9/5

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2000

9/5/2000

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (43)	1,456	1
2	Florida State (15)	1,422	2
3	Michigan	1,303	4
4	Miami	1,205	6
5	Florida	1,175	7
6	Wisconsin (1)	1,131	5
7	Kansas State	1,037	9
8	Texas	1,036	8
9	Virginia Tech	1,022	10
10	Georgia	901	11
11	Tennessee	822	12
12	USC	746	13
13	Purdue	719	14
14	Alabama	668	3
15	Washington	631	15
16	Ohio State	627	16
17	UCLA	491	NR
18	Mississippi	458	17
19	Clemson	425	18
20	Oklahoma	355	19
21	Illinois	327	20
22	TCU	234	21
23	Michigan State	232	22
24	Notre Dame	115	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.