USA Poll 11/20

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2000

11/20/2000

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (56)	1,472	1
2	Miami (2)	1,404	2
3	Florida State (1)	1,366	3
4	Washington	1,293	5
5	Virginia Tech	1,189	7
6	Oregon State	1,181	8
7	Kansas State	1,076	9
8	Nebraska	1,031	10
9	Florida	1,016	4
10	Notre Dame	877	11
11	Oregon	817	6
12	Clemson	765	14
13	Texas	722	15
14	Purdue	665	17
15	TCU	646	16
16	Michigan	637	18
17	Auburn	565	19
18	Georgia	386	21
19	Georgia Tech	382	22
20	Ohio State	343	12
21	Northwestern	312	24
22	Texas A&M	237	23
23	Mississippi State	230	13
24	Tennessee	214	25
25	Colorado State	117	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.