USA Poll 9/7

Coaches' Poll

Year: 1999

9/7/1999

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (29)	1,433	1
2	Penn State (19)	1,406	4
3	Tennessee (11)	1,385	2
4	Florida	1,223	5
5	Michigan	1,207	7
6	Nebraska	1,203	6
7	Texas A&M	1,109	8
8	Wisconsin	1,038	10
9	Miami	1,002	12
10	Georgia Tech	962	11
11	Virginia Tech	830	14
12	Georgia	807	13
13	UCLA	672	15
14	Ohio State	591	9
15	Arizona	491	3
16	Purdue	464	23
17	Arkansas	434	22
18	Kansas State	412	19
19	Virginia	374	24
20	USC	333	21
21	Notre Dame	307	18
22	Alabama	305	20
23	Texas	250	16
24	NC State	175	NR
25	Arizona State	133	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.