USA Poll 10/20

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2003

10/20/2003

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (57)	1,569	1
2	Miami (6)	1,516	2
3	Virginia Tech	1,450	3
4	USC	1,364	4
5	Georgia	1,327	5
6	Washington State	1,183	6
7	Florida State	1,171	7
8	Ohio State	1,146	8
9	LSU	1,059	10
10	Purdue	898	15
11	Nebraska	855	14
12	Michigan State	786	18
13	TCU	781	13
14	Northern Illinois	760	16
15	Michigan	712	17
16	Iowa	637	9
17	Wisconsin	438	12
18	Texas	426	20
19	Oklahoma State	410	24
20	Arkansas	404	11
21	Auburn	350	25
22	Tennessee	290	22
23	Utah	158	NR
24	Minnesota	120	19
25	Florida	95	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.