1.   A coaches poll and a news media poll, the latter maintained by The Associated Press, determined the rankings.

2.   According to BCS rules, the winner of the BCS championship game is automatically the first-place finisher in the coaches poll compiled by ESPN and USA Today.

3.   Check out the ESPN-USA Today coaches poll and then take a look on Sunday.

4.   Check out the ESPN-USA Today coaches poll today and then take a look on Sunday.

5.   In the coaches poll it is a virtual tie.

6.   In the preseason coaches poll, the Saints were ranked in seventh place in the ECAC league.

7.   It got it, as the USA Today-ESPN coaches poll gave the Huskers their third national championship in the last four years.

8.   One of the problems with the coaches poll is in the anonymity of the balloting.

9.   Since the coaches poll is more closely guarded than nuclear missile codes at the Pentagon, we can only guess what was in the minds of those coaches.

10.   The BCS also uses the news media and the coaches polls in its calculation.