USA Poll 10/2

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2000

10/2/2000

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (37)	1,452	1
2	Florida State (21)	1,434	2
3	Virginia Tech	1,334	4
4	Kansas State (1)	1,295	5
5	Clemson	1,180	8
6	Michigan	1,120	9
7	Ohio State	1,119	10
8	Miami	1,033	12
9	Florida	886	3
10	Texas	856	13
11	Washington	734	6
12	Oklahoma	713	16
13	Auburn	697	20
14	TCU	695	18
15	Oregon	613	25
16	USC	582	7
17	UCLA	550	17
18	Southern Miss	531	21
19	Georgia	455	24
20	Mississippi State	355	NR
21	Tennessee	338	11
22	Wisconsin	242	14
23	Oregon State	171	NR
24	Northwestern	140	NR
25	Michigan State	136	15

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.