USA Poll 10/30

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2000

10/30/2000

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (55)	1,470	3
2	Virginia Tech (4)	1,403	2
3	Miami	1,324	5
4	Florida State	1,289	6
5	Florida	1,217	7
6	Nebraska	1,180	1
7	Washington	1,076	9
8	Oregon	1,047	10
9	TCU	984	11
10	Clemson	964	4
11	Southern Miss	805	14
12	Michigan	779	15
13	Purdue	777	16
14	Oregon State	646	17
15	Kansas State	590	8
16	Notre Dame	489	19
17	Georgia	486	12
18	Mississippi State	445	21
19	Ohio State	444	13
20	Texas	426	20
21	Colorado State	233	24
22	Auburn	222	25
23	Northwestern	201	NR
24	South Carolina	184	18
25	Texas A&M	151	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.