USA Poll 11/29

Coaches' Poll

Year: 1999

11/29/1999

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (56)	1,472	1
2	Virginia Tech (3)	1,416	2
3	Nebraska	1,346	3
4	Wisconsin	1,274	4
5	Florida	1,196	6
6	Tennessee	1,166	7
7	Kansas State	1,115	8
8	Alabama	1,076	9
9	Michigan	1,021	10
10	Michigan State	937	11
11	Marshall	832	12
12	Texas	759	5
13	Minnesota	633	14
14	Texas A&M	626	17
15	Southern Miss	624	13
16	Georgia Tech	605	16
17	Penn State	603	15
18	Mississippi State	540	19
19	East Carolina	486	18
20	Purdue	314	23
21	Stanford	281	25
22	Boston College	145	20
23	Georgia	124	21
24	Miami	120	NR
25	BYU	114	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.