USA Poll 9/28

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2003

9/28/2003

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (49)	1,557	1
2	Miami (8)	1,513	2
3	Ohio State (6)	1,433	4
4	Virginia Tech	1,369	5
5	Florida State	1,315	6
6	LSU	1,260	7
7	Tennessee	1,193	8
8	Nebraska	988	11
9	Arkansas	969	14
10	USC	953	3
11	Michigan	950	10
12	Georgia	923	12
13	Texas	892	13
14	Kansas State	618	16
15	Washington State	546	21
16	Minnesota	504	20
17	Washington	489	18
18	Pittsburgh	477	19
19	Iowa	448	9
20	Northern Illinois	413	22
21	TCU	404	17
22	Oregon	215	15
23	Purdue	166	NR
24	Florida	133	25
25	Air Force	132	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.