USA Poll 10/5

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2003

10/5/2003

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (53)	1,560	1
2	Miami (4)	1,491	2
3	Ohio State (6)	1,435	3
4	Virginia Tech	1,385	4
5	Florida State	1,332	5
6	LSU	1,270	6
7	Nebraska	1,136	8
8	Arkansas	1,084	9
9	USC	1,016	10
10	Georgia	1,009	12
11	Texas	967	13
12	Washington State	798	15
13	Minnesota	706	16
14	Tennessee	704	7
15	Iowa	693	19
16	Pittsburgh	564	18
17	TCU	446	21
18	Northern Illinois	438	20
19	Michigan	411	11
20	Purdue	398	23
21	Kansas State	320	14
22	Wisconsin	278	NR
23	Michigan State	208	NR
24	Virginia	154	NR
25	Oregon State	129	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.