USA Poll 10/25

Coaches' Poll

Year: 1999

10/25/1999

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (41)	1,456	1
2	Penn State (16)	1,427	2
3	Virginia Tech (2)	1,355	4
4	Tennessee	1,261	5
5	Florida	1,232	6
6	Kansas State	1,199	7
7	Georgia Tech	1,114	8
8	Mississippi State	1,022	11
9	Nebraska	1,021	3
10	Georgia	941	14
11	Wisconsin	862	16
12	Texas	786	18
13	Marshall	729	15
14	Michigan	630	9
15	BYU	613	19
16	Alabama	539	12
17	East Carolina	508	20
18	Texas A&M	448	10
19	Southern Miss	351	21
20	Michigan State	332	13
21	Ohio State	323	22
22	Purdue	245	17
23	Miami	191	23
24	Syracuse	147	24
25	Stanford	82	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.