Clemson stays at No. 2 in Coaches Poll

by Brandon Rink - Staff Writer - Sun Sep 16 13:02:40 GMT-04:00 2018

Clemson maintained its spot at No. 2 in in the Coaches Poll on Sunday.

The top-5 all improved to 3-0 on the week with No. 1 Alabama crushing Ole Miss 62-7 on the road and No. 2 Clemson (38-7 over Georgia Southern) and No. 3 Georgia (49-7 over Middle Tennessee) taking care of business at home versus non-Power 5 teams. No. 4 Ohio State (40-28 over TCU in AT&T Stadium) and No. 5 Oklahoma (37-27 at Iowa State) also pulled out double-digit wins.

LSU moved up seven spots to No. 6 after a win at Auburn and Wisconsin dropped to No. 16 after a home loss to BYU.

Alabama gained a first-place vote (60) at Clemson's expense this week (2).

USA TODAY Coaches Poll - 9/16

RANK TEAM RECORD

1 Alabama 3-0 (60 first place votes)

2 Clemson 3-0 (2)

3 Georgia 3-0

4 Ohio State 3-0 (1)

5 Oklahoma 3-0

6 Louisiana State 3-0

7 Stanford 3-0

8 Notre Dame 3-0

9 Penn State 3-0

10 Virginia Tech 2-0

11 Auburn 2-1

12 Washington 2-1

13 West Virginia 2-0

14 Mississippi State 3-0

15 Oklahoma State 3-0

16 Wisconsin 2-1

17 Texas Christian 2-1

18 Central Florida 2-0

19 Oregon 3-0

20 Miami 2-1

21 Michigan 2-1

22 Texas A&M 2-1

23 Michigan State 1-1

24 Boise State 2-1

25 Boston College 3-0

Schools Dropped Out

No. 25 Arizona State.

Others Receiving Votes

Kentucky 98; Duke 55; South Florida 45; Colorado 41; South Carolina 40; Iowa 36; Washington State 35; Brigham Young 30; Missouri 21; NC State 19; Appalachian State 13; Syracuse 11; California 11; Utah 10; Cincinnati 10; Texas 9; North Texas 5; Troy 4; Minnesota 3; San Diego State 3; Florida 3; Arizona State 3; Houston 2; Tennessee 2; Arkansas State 2; Vanderbilt 2; Fresno State 1.

List of Voters

The Amway Board of Coaches is made up of 65 head coaches at Bowl Subdivision schools. All are members of the American Football Coaches Association. The board for the 2018 season: Blake Anderson, Arkansas State; Major Applewhite, Houston; Dino Babers, Syracuse; Mike Bloomgren, Rice; John Bonamego, Central Michigan; Terry Bowden, Akron; Jeff Brohm, Purdue; Neal Brown, Troy; Troy Calhoun, Air Force; Rod Carey, Northern Illinois; Bill Clark, Alabama-Birmingham; Dave Clawson, Wake Forest; Geoff Collins, Temple; David Cutcliffe, Duke; Mark Dantonio, Michigan State; Bob Davie, New Mexico; Butch Davis, Florida International; Dana Dimel, Texas-El Paso; DJ Durkin, Maryland; Herm Edwards, Arizona State; Luke Fickell, Cincinnati; Jimbo Fisher, Texas A&M; P.J. Fleck, Minnesota; James Franklin, Penn State; Willie Fritz, Tulane; Scott Frost, Nebraska; Justin Fuente, Virginia Tech; Turner Gill, Liberty; Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State; Bryan Harsin, Boise State; Clay Helton, Southern California; Tom Herman, Texas; Dana Holgorsen, West Virginia; Mike Jinks, Bowling Green; Kliff Kingsbury, Texas Tech; Brad Lambert, Charlotte; Mike Leach, Washington State; Lance Leipold, Buffalo; Tim Lester, Western Michigan; Seth Littrell, North Texas; Rocky Long, San Diego State; Chad Lunsford, Georgia Southern; Mike MacIntyre, Colorado; Gus Malzahn, Auburn; Doug Martin, New Mexico State; Urban Meyer, Ohio State; Jeff Monken, Army; Dan Mullen, Florida; Pat Narduzzi, Pittsburgh; Ken Niumatalolo, Navy; Jay Norvell, Nevada; Barry Odom, Missouri; Ed Orgeron, LSU; Gary Patterson, TCU; Chris Petersen, Washington; Bobby Petrino, Louisville; Nick Saban, Alabama; Scott Satterfield, Appalachian State; Kirby Smart, Georgia; Rick Stockstill, Middle Tennessee; Charlie Strong, South Florida; Dabo Swinney, Clemson; Jeff Tedford, Fresno State; Kyle Whittingham, Utah; Everett Withers, Texas State.