USA Poll 11/13

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2000

11/13/2000

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (57)	1,473	1
2	Miami (2)	1,407	2
3	Florida State	1,357	3
4	Florida	1,297	4
5	Washington	1,196	6
6	Oregon	1,169	7
7	Virginia Tech	1,115	8
8	Oregon State	1,025	10
9	Kansas State	966	11
10	Nebraska	887	5
11	Notre Dame	812	12
12	Ohio State	802	14
13	Mississippi State	726	16
14	Clemson	672	15
15	Texas	631	19
16	TCU	563	17
17	Purdue	512	9
18	Michigan	449	21
19	Auburn	410	23
20	Southern Miss	323	22
21	Georgia	297	13
22	Georgia Tech	261	NR
23	Texas A&M	154	24
24	Northwestern	141	18
25	Tennessee	102	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.