USA Poll 9/25

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2000

9/25/2000

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (44)	1,455	1
2	Florida State (14)	1,424	2
3	Florida	1,346	3
4	Virginia Tech	1,274	4
5	Kansas State (1)	1,233	5
6	Washington	1,135	7
7	USC	989	9
8	Clemson	973	11
9	Michigan	964	10
10	Ohio State	939	12
11	Tennessee	818	13
12	Miami	774	14
13	Texas	639	15
14	Wisconsin	610	6
15	Michigan State	609	20
16	Oklahoma	552	16
17	UCLA	541	8
18	TCU	509	19
19	Purdue	424	21
20	Auburn	387	22
21	Southern Miss	356	23
22	Illinois	229	17
23	South Carolina	217	NR
23	Georgia	217	24
25	Oregon	183	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.