USA Poll 11/3

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2003

11/3/2003

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (63)	1,575	1
2	USC	1,502	3
3	Florida State	1,412	5
4	LSU	1,337	8
5	Virginia Tech	1,281	11
6	Ohio State	1,263	7
7	Miami	1,208	2
8	Michigan	1,135	12
9	Georgia	951	4
10	Iowa	932	14
11	Texas	881	16
12	TCU	875	13
13	Washington State	827	6
14	Purdue	667	17
15	Michigan State	645	10
16	Nebraska	558	9
17	Tennessee	544	18
18	Minnesota	490	19
19	Florida	480	21
20	Bowling Green	369	20
21	Pittsburgh	268	23
22	Oklahoma State	240	15
23	Northern Illinois	211	22
24	Mississippi	181	NR
25	Louisville	155	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.