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Coaches' Poll

Year: 1999

7/1/1999

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (36)	1,447	NR
2	Tennessee (13)	1,369	NR
3	Arizona (2)	1,301	NR
4	Penn State (8)	1,267	NR
5	Florida	1,113	NR
6	Nebraska	1,095	NR
7	Michigan	1,094	NR
8	Texas A&M	1,051	NR
9	Ohio State	1,024	NR
10	Wisconsin	902	NR
11	Georgia Tech	748	NR
12	Miami	704	NR
13	Georgia	671	NR
14	Virginia Tech	626	NR
15	UCLA	596	NR
16	Texas	497	NR
17	Colorado	470	NR
18	Notre Dame	422	NR
19	Kansas State	379	NR
20	Alabama	367	NR
21	USC	360	NR
22	Arkansas	325	NR
23	Purdue	291	NR
24	Virginia	191	NR
25	Arizona State	167	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.