USA Poll 11/1

Coaches' Poll

Year: 1999

11/1/1999

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (44)	1,456	1
2	Penn State (13)	1,424	2
3	Virginia Tech (2)	1,355	3
4	Tennessee	1,264	4
5	Florida	1,242	5
6	Kansas State	1,196	6
7	Georgia Tech	1,121	7
8	Mississippi State	1,032	8
9	Nebraska	1,010	9
10	Wisconsin	932	11
11	Texas	849	12
12	Marshall	755	13
13	BYU	680	15
14	Alabama	665	16
15	Michigan	649	14
16	Georgia	620	10
17	East Carolina	533	17
18	Texas A&M	481	18
19	Michigan State	400	20
20	Ohio State	370	21
21	Purdue	341	22
22	Miami	218	23
23	Mississippi	146	NR
24	Arkansas	124	NR
25	Southern Miss	109	19

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.