USA Poll 10/12

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2003

10/12/2003

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (58)	1,570	1
2	Miami (5)	1,514	2
3	Virginia Tech	1,452	4
4	USC	1,334	9
5	Georgia	1,333	10
6	Washington State	1,108	12
7	Florida State	1,086	5
8	Ohio State	1,065	3
9	Iowa	981	15
10	LSU	938	6
11	Arkansas	827	8
12	Wisconsin	733	22
13	TCU	730	17
14	Nebraska	704	7
15	Purdue	699	20
16	Northern Illinois	694	18
17	Michigan	675	19
18	Michigan State	581	23
19	Minnesota	369	13
20	Texas	293	11
21	Oregon State	258	25
22	Tennessee	249	14
23	Texas Tech	222	NR
24	Oklahoma State	218	NR
25	Auburn	181	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.