USA Poll Final

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2000

1/5/2001

Week 16

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (59)	1,475	1
2	Miami	1,404	2
3	Washington	1,336	4
4	Florida State	1,253	3
5	Oregon State	1,245	6
6	Virginia Tech	1,215	5
7	Nebraska	1,099	8
8	Kansas State	1,077	9
9	Oregon	1,009	11
10	Michigan	901	15
11	Florida	899	7
12	Texas	731	12
13	Purdue	626	14
14	Clemson	590	13
15	Colorado State	587	22
16	Notre Dame	457	10
17	Georgia	357	24
18	TCU	341	16
19	Georgia Tech	335	17
20	Auburn	325	20
21	South Carolina	314	NR
22	Mississippi State	272	NR
23	Iowa State	225	NR
24	Wisconsin	220	NR
25	Tennessee	159	21

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.