USA Poll 10/27

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2003

10/27/2003

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (58)	1,570	1
2	Miami (5)	1,517	2
3	USC	1,436	4
4	Georgia	1,348	5
5	Florida State	1,265	7
6	Washington State	1,237	6
7	Ohio State	1,209	8
8	LSU	1,166	9
9	Nebraska	984	11
10	Michigan State	968	12
11	Virginia Tech	963	3
12	Michigan	893	15
13	TCU	816	13
14	Iowa	757	16
15	Oklahoma State	664	19
16	Texas	639	18
17	Purdue	499	10
18	Tennessee	457	22
19	Minnesota	375	24
20	Bowling Green	310	NR
21	Florida	200	25
22	Northern Illinois	174	14
23	Pittsburgh	141	NR
24	Missouri	140	NR
25	Louisville	136	NR

Coaches' Poll
Started in 1950.

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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.