USA Poll 10/9

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2000

10/9/2000

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (53)	1,468	1
2	Virginia Tech (3)	1,370	3
3	Kansas State (3)	1,358	4
4	Clemson	1,252	5
5	Ohio State	1,220	7
6	Miami	1,205	8
7	Florida State	1,068	2
8	Oklahoma	1,062	12
9	Florida	1,032	9
10	Washington	847	11
11	TCU	830	14
12	Oregon	740	15
13	Georgia	679	19
14	Mississippi State	673	20
15	UCLA	643	17
16	Southern Miss	638	18
17	Michigan	627	6
18	Northwestern	456	24
19	Auburn	375	13
20	Oregon State	211	23
21	Purdue	191	NR
22	Arizona	189	NR
23	Texas	155	10
24	South Carolina	124	NR
25	Mississippi	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.