USA Poll 9/11

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2000

9/11/2000

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (48)	1,461	1
2	Florida State (10)	1,415	2
3	Michigan	1,336	3
4	Florida	1,241	5
5	Wisconsin (1)	1,165	6
6	Texas	1,137	8
7	Kansas State	1,124	7
8	Virginia Tech	1,113	9
9	Tennessee	916	11
10	Washington	875	15
11	USC	842	12
12	Purdue	797	13
13	Alabama	707	14
14	Miami	669	4
15	Ohio State	597	16
16	Clemson	572	19
17	UCLA	564	17
18	Oklahoma	469	20
19	Illinois	438	21
20	Michigan State	326	23
21	TCU	321	22
22	Georgia	283	10
23	Notre Dame	163	25
24	Auburn	115	NR
25	Colorado State	111	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.