2018 Week 6 Amway Coaches Poll: Alabama Remains No. 1

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. Access the poll: here

Here is the 2018 Week 6 Amway Coaches Poll:

1) Alabama 5-0 (1,597 total points) (61 first-place votes)

2) Georgia, 5-0 (1,490)

3) Ohio State, 5-0 (1,467) (1)

4) Clemson, 5-0 (1,417) (2)

5) Oklahoma, 5-0 (1,313)

6) LSU, 5-0, (1,285)

7) Notre Dame, 5-0 (1,246)

8) West Virginia, 4-0 (1,055)

9) Auburn, 4-1 (1049)

10) Washington, 4-1 (1,027)

11) Penn State, 4-1 (1,002)

12) Wisconsin, 3-1 (797)

13) Central Florida, 4-0 (763)

14) Stanford, 4-1 (753)

15) Kentucky, 5-0 (69)

16) Michigan, 4-1 (627)

17) Miami (Florida), 4-1 (587)

18 ) Oregon, 4-1 (453)

19) Michigan State, 3-1 (376)

20) Texas, 4-1 (342)

21) Oklahoma State, 4-1 (255)

22) Colorado, 4-0 (170)

23) Virginia Tech, 3-1 (167)

24) Boise State, 3-1 (160)

25) NC State, 4-0 (121)

Other receiving votes: South Florida, 109; Florida, 105; Syracuse, 48; Washington State, 43; Cincinnati, 42; TCU, 40; Appalachian State, 34; Texas A&M, 31; Iowa, 23; Missouri, 21; Maryland, 14; Mississippi State, 13; USC, 10; San Diego State, 9; Boston College, 9; Arizona State, 8; South Carolina, 6; Troy, 5; California, 5; Duke, 5; BYU, 4; Army, 4; Louisiana Tech, 2; Fresno State, 1.

Coaches Participating in the Voting that Determines the Rankings: The 2018 Amway Board of Coaches are: 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.

Note:  Ohio State coach Urban Meyer did not participate in the Amway Coaches Poll while he served a three-game suspension handed down by Ohio State. Maryland coach DJ Durkin, on administrative leave, also is ineligible to vote while the university conducts investigations into this program.