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The Miami Hurricanes were the unanmious choice in the first TheInsiders.com Top 25 College Football poll of the 2002 season.

Miami Tops First Poll of 2002
SEATTLE - A thumping of Florida in their first meeting since 1987 made the Miami Hurricanes an obvious and unanimous choice in the inagural TheInsiders.com Top 25 College Football poll of the 2002 season.

The Hurricanes (2-0) are TheInsiders.com's defending national champions.

The network's top five mirrored that of other polls; however, Oklahoma (2-0) was TheInsiders.com's pick at No. 2. The Sooners were followed by Tennessee (2-0), Texas (1-0) and Florida State (2-0).

Ohio State (2-0), Virginia Tech (2-0), Michigan (2-0), Nebraska (3-0) and Washington State rounded out TheInsiders.com's Top 10.

The complete poll for Sept. 8, 2002:

Rank		Team*	Points
1		Miami (40)	1000
2		Oklahoma	916
3		Tennessee	884
4		Texas	858
5		Florida State	840
6		Ohio State	778
7		Virginia Tech	738
8		Michigan	733
9		Nebraska	676
10		Washington State	636
11		Georgia	600
12		Oregon	538
13		Florida	524
14		Washington	484
15		Michigan State	356
16		Marshall	324
17		USC	293
18		NC State	280
19		Wisconsin	213
20		Notre Dame	196
21		Colorado	133
22		Texas A&M	129
23		Kansas State	120
		LSU	120
25		Iowa State	107
		South Carolina	107
*First place votes in parenthesis. Other teams receiving votes: Penn State 19, Oregon State 16, Brigham Young 12, Alabama 11, Colorado State 10, Mississippi 5, Georgia Tech 4, UCLA 4, Kentucky 4, Boston College 2, Iowa 2, Air Force 2, Arizona 2, Arkansas 1.