USA Poll Final

Coaches' Poll

Year: 1999

1/6/2000

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (59)	1,475	1
2	Nebraska	1,390	3
3	Virginia Tech	1,366	2
4	Wisconsin	1,283	4
5	Michigan	1,189	8
6	Kansas State	1,188	7
7	Michigan State	1,117	9
8	Alabama	1,042	6
9	Tennessee	985	5
10	Marshall	956	11
11	Penn State	840	17
12	Mississippi State	810	16
13	Southern Miss	763	14
14	Florida	713	10
15	Miami	605	23
16	Georgia	505	24
17	Minnesota	395	12
18	Oregon	375	NR
19	Arkansas	357	NR
20	Texas A&M	344	13
21	Georgia Tech	337	15
22	Mississippi	231	NR
23	Texas	173	18
24	Stanford	155	21
25	Illinois	139	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.