The Amway Coaches Poll is conducted weekly throughout the regular season using a panel of head coaches at FBS schools. The panel is chosen by random draw, conference by conference plus independents, from a pool of coaches who have indicated to the American Football Coaches Association their willingness to participate. Each coach submits a Top 25 with a first-place vote worth 25 points, second place 24, and so on down to one point for 25th.
1. Florida State (56 first place votes)
2. ALABAMA
3. Oklahoma (3)
4. Oregon (1)
5. Auburn
6. Ohio State (1)
7. UCLA
8. Michigan State
9. South Carolina (1)
10. Baylor
11. Stanford
12. Georgia
13. LSU
14. Wisconsin
15. Southern Cal
16. Clemson
17. Notre Dame
18. Arizona State
19. Ole Miss
20. Texas A&M
21. Kansas State
22. Nebraska
23. North Carolina
24. Texas
25. Washington
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Observations:
- South Carolina got 1 first place vote (???).
- Five teams received first place votes but Alabama was not one of them. Yet, they still finished second in the poll. That's begrudging respect there.
- 7 SEC teams ranked.
- I'm a little surprised to see Texas A&M so high.
- No Big Ten in the Top 5. Let's hope it stays this way.
- It's interesting how the coaches believe both Southern Cal and Texas are "back" so soon.