USA Poll 12/4

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2000

12/4/2000

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (56)	1,471	1
2	Miami (2)	1,400	2
3	Florida State (1)	1,366	3
4	Washington	1,284	4
5	Virginia Tech	1,200	5
6	Oregon State	1,192	6
7	Florida	1,119	8
8	Nebraska	1,005	9
9	Kansas State	938	7
10	Notre Dame	894	10
11	Oregon	888	11
12	Texas	822	12
13	Clemson	708	13
14	Purdue	686	14
15	Michigan	632	16
16	TCU	628	15
17	Georgia Tech	540	18
18	Ohio State	427	19
19	Northwestern	411	20
20	Auburn	345	17
21	Tennessee	304	21
22	Colorado State	267	22
23	Louisville	159	23
24	Georgia	90	24
25	Toledo	76	25

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.