USA Poll 10/18

Coaches' Poll

Year: 1999

10/18/1999

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (52)	1,468	1
2	Penn State (7)	1,412	2
3	Nebraska	1,321	3
4	Virginia Tech	1,313	4
5	Tennessee	1,193	5
6	Florida	1,179	6
7	Kansas State	1,127	8
8	Georgia Tech	1,046	9
9	Michigan	945	10
10	Texas A&M	926	11
11	Mississippi State	859	12
12	Alabama	847	13
13	Michigan State	744	7
14	Georgia	715	14
15	Marshall	625	16
16	Wisconsin	618	18
17	Purdue	514	21
18	Texas	503	19
19	BYU	443	20
20	East Carolina	250	23
21	Southern Miss	176	NR
22	Ohio State	173	17
23	Miami	130	24
24	Syracuse	125	15
25	Minnesota	120	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.