USA Poll 12/8

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2003

12/8/2003

Week 16

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (37)	1,542	2
2	LSU (18)	1,516	3
3	Oklahoma (8)	1,449	1
4	Michigan	1,393	4
5	Texas	1,272	6
6	Ohio State	1,168	7
7	Tennessee	1,145	8
8	Florida State	1,124	9
9	Miami	1,044	10
10	Kansas State	1,039	13
11	Georgia	999	5
12	Iowa	839	11
13	Purdue	762	12
14	Washington State	699	14
15	Miami (OH)	664	15
16	Boise State	557	17
17	Florida	550	16
18	Mississippi	524	18
19	TCU	429	19
20	Minnesota	379	20
21	Nebraska	337	21
22	Oklahoma State	263	22
23	West Virginia	190	24
24	Maryland	134	25
25	Utah	80	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.