USA Poll 9/14

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2003

9/14/2003

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (46)	1,551	1
2	Miami (8)	1,498	2
3	USC (1)	1,397	4
4	Ohio State (7)	1,366	3
5	Michigan (1)	1,335	7
6	Kansas State	1,265	6
7	Georgia	1,217	8
8	Virginia Tech	1,123	9
9	Florida State	1,031	10
10	LSU	985	11
11	Pittsburgh	933	12
12	Tennessee	892	13
13	Texas	712	5
14	Iowa	648	19
15	Nebraska	641	18
16	Arizona State	637	16
17	Florida	587	20
18	Arkansas	420	NR
19	TCU	298	23
20	Texas A&M	249	25
21	Washington	204	24
22	Oregon	185	NR
23	Notre Dame	140	14
24	Minnesota	122	NR
25	Washington State	116	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.