Hurricanes No. 1 in First TheInsiders.com Poll

SEATTLE – They may be second everywhere else, but the Miami Hurricanes are No. 1 in the eyes of TheInsiders.com college football experts.

Fresh off their 33-7 pounding of Penn State, the Hurricanes were assigned the top position in the debut TheInsiders.com Top 25 College Football Poll.

Florida, which crunched Marshall 49-14 behind sophomore quarterback Rex Grossman, is No. 2, and Oklahoma, which blasted Air Force 44-3, is No. 3.

Rounding out TheInsiders.com poll's initial Top Five are Florida State and Nebraska.

TheInsiders.com (http://www.theinsiders.com) is an online sports network featuring the top college team, recruiting, NFL and high school sites on the Web. The Top 25 College Poll includes ballots from publishers reflecting the regions and conferences represented in TheInsiders.com college team network.

The Sept. 5, 2001 poll:

Rank		Team	Points
1		Miami (8)	272
2		Florida (2)	262
3		Oklahoma (1)	256
4		Florida State	229
5		Nebraska	222
6		Texas	209
		Oregon	209
8		Tennessee	203
9		Virginia Tech	197
10		Michigan	159
11		Oregon State	153
12		Kansas State	142
13		Georgia Tech	134
14		LSU	130
15		UCLA	127
16		Washington	119
17		Notre Dame	91
18		Mississippi State	82
19		Clemson	73
20		Northwestern	60
		Ohio State	60
22		South Carolina	56
23		Wisconsin	28
24		Georgia	12
25		Fresno State	10
(First place votes in parenthesis). Other teams receiving votes: Louisville 8, Purdue 7, Illinois 7, Toledo 7, Boston College 6, Wake Forest 5, Colorado 5, Michigan State 4, Southern Mississippi 4, Alabama 4, Pittsburgh 3, Brigham Young 3, Stanford 3, Texas A&M 2, Arizona 1, TCU 1.