USA Poll 9/23

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2002

9/23/2002

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (59)	1,523	1
2	Texas (2)	1,436	2
3	Oklahoma	1,406	3
4	Florida State	1,343	5
5	Virginia Tech	1,249	7
6	Ohio State	1,204	6
7	Georgia	1,116	8
8	Oregon	1,065	9
9	Florida	1,047	10
10	Notre Dame	958	12
11	Tennessee	866	4
12	Penn State	772	15
13	Washington	771	13
14	Michigan	703	14
15	NC State	647	16
16	Wisconsin	559	17
17	Kansas State	513	23
18	Washington State	481	18
19	Nebraska	430	19
20	LSU	360	20
21	Iowa State	308	24
22	USC	306	11
23	Colorado State	187	25
24	Oregon State	177	NR
25	Auburn	79	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.