USA Poll 12/6

Coaches' Poll

Year: 1999

12/6/1999

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (56)	1,472	1
2	Virginia Tech (3)	1,415	2
3	Nebraska	1,330	3
4	Wisconsin	1,276	4
5	Tennessee	1,187	6
6	Alabama	1,183	8
7	Kansas State	1,145	7
8	Michigan	1,065	9
9	Michigan State	997	10
10	Florida	898	5
11	Marshall	819	11
12	Minnesota	715	13
13	Texas A&M	701	14
14	Southern Miss	653	15
15	Georgia Tech	616	16
16	Mississippi State	590	18
17	Penn State	586	17
18	Texas	563	12
19	East Carolina	473	19
20	Purdue	347	20
21	Stanford	308	21
22	Boston College	181	22
23	Miami	153	24
24	Georgia	147	23
25	BYU	102	25

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.