USA Poll 10/16

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2000

10/16/2000

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (57)	1,473	1
2	Virginia Tech (1)	1,412	2
3	Clemson	1,308	4
4	Oklahoma	1,276	8
5	Miami	1,262	6
6	Florida State	1,166	7
7	Florida	1,116	9
8	Kansas State	943	3
9	Washington	934	10
10	TCU	897	11
11	Oregon	894	12
12	Georgia	794	13
13	Ohio State	790	5
14	Mississippi State	731	14
15	Southern Miss	713	16
16	Michigan	621	17
17	Purdue	434	21
18	Oregon State	433	20
19	South Carolina	362	24
20	Arizona	346	22
21	Texas	193	23
22	Notre Dame	162	NR
23	Minnesota	158	NR
24	UCLA	145	15
25	NC State	130	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.