USA Poll 9/21

Coaches' Poll

Year: 1999

9/21/1999

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (50)	1,466	1
2	Penn State (6)	1,393	3
3	Florida (3)	1,366	4
4	Michigan	1,279	5
5	Nebraska	1,204	6
6	Texas A&M	1,162	7
7	Tennessee	1,127	2
8	Virginia Tech	1,019	10
9	Georgia	937	11
10	Ohio State	880	12
11	Purdue	842	14
12	Georgia Tech	837	13
13	Miami	787	9
14	Arkansas	706	15
15	Kansas State	672	16
16	USC	510	19
17	Wisconsin	476	8
18	UCLA	388	21
19	BYU	382	NR
20	Texas	357	22
21	Michigan State	308	NR
22	Marshall	307	25
23	Mississippi State	183	NR
24	NC State	107	20
25	Air Force	95	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.