USA Poll 9/7

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2003

9/7/2003

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (41)	1,543	1
2	Miami (8)	1,477	3
3	Ohio State (13)	1,429	2
4	USC (1)	1,333	5
5	Texas	1,302	4
6	Kansas State	1,257	6
7	Michigan	1,219	7
8	Georgia	1,143	8
9	Virginia Tech	1,048	9
10	Florida State	998	10
11	LSU	887	13
12	Pittsburgh	876	12
13	Tennessee	830	14
14	Notre Dame	697	16
15	Wisconsin	674	17
16	Arizona State	491	21
17	Colorado	480	22
18	Nebraska	425	24
19	Iowa	424	23
20	Florida	410	18
21	Wake Forest	230	NR
22	NC State	221	11
23	TCU	159	NR
24	Washington	153	NR
25	Texas A&M	120	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.