USA Poll 12/1

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2003

12/1/2003

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (63)	1,575	1
2	USC	1,506	2
3	LSU	1,451	3
4	Michigan	1,370	4
5	Georgia	1,270	5
6	Texas	1,243	6
7	Ohio State	1,138	7
8	Tennessee	1,129	8
9	Florida State	1,091	9
10	Miami	1,052	10
11	Iowa	842	12
12	Purdue	799	13
13	Kansas State	745	15
14	Washington State	698	14
15	Miami (OH)	606	16
16	Florida	596	11
17	Boise State	557	18
18	Mississippi	501	19
19	TCU	456	17
20	Minnesota	355	22
21	Nebraska	337	23
22	Oklahoma State	275	24
23	Bowling Green	198	25
24	West Virginia	157	NR
25	Maryland	92	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.