USA Poll 10/4

Coaches' Poll

Year: 1999

10/4/1999

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (53)	1,469	1
2	Penn State (6)	1,409	2
3	Michigan	1,351	4
4	Nebraska	1,308	5
5	Virginia Tech	1,218	7
6	Tennessee	1,129	8
7	Florida	1,015	3
8	Georgia Tech	1,012	12
9	Georgia	1,002	11
10	Kansas State	983	13
11	Michigan State	928	14
12	Texas A&M	775	6
13	Mississippi State	771	16
14	Alabama	605	22
15	Purdue	561	10
15	Marshall	561	17
17	Syracuse	543	19
18	East Carolina	503	21
19	Ohio State	415	9
20	Wisconsin	313	NR
21	Miami	308	20
22	USC	305	23
23	Texas	207	15
24	BYU	119	NR
25	Mississippi	69	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.