2018 Week 8 Amway Coaches Poll: TCU Nowhere To Be Seen

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.

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Here is the 2018 Week 8 Amway Coaches Poll:

1) Alabama 7-0 (1,597 total points) (61 first-place votes)
2) Ohio State, 7-0 (1,518) (1)
3) Clemson, 6-0 (1,484) (2)
4) Notre Dame, 7-0 (1,408)
5) LSU, 6-1 (1,303)1
6) Georgia, 6-1 (1163)
7) Michigan, 6-1 (1,149)
8) Texas, 6-1 (1,138)
9) Central Florida, 6-0 (1,034)
10) Oklahoma, 5-1 (1,019)
11) Oregon, 5-1 (927)
12) Florida, 6-1 (918)
13) West Virginia, 5-1 (768)
14) Washington, 5-2 (682)
15) North Carolina State, 5-0 (637)
16) Penn State, 4-2 (604)
17) Kentucky, 5-1 (589)
18) Texas A&M, 5-2 (501)
19) Wisconsin, 4-2 (399)
20) South Florida, 6-0 (346)
21) Cincinnati, 6-0 (248)
22) Iowa, 5-1 (218)
23) Washington State, 5-1 (211)
24) Stanford, 4-2 (147)
25) Colorado, 5-1 (141)

Other receiving votes: Miami, 124; Mississippi State, 110; Michigan State, 98; San Diego State, 71; Duke, 60; Appalachian State, 55; Utah State, 33; Utah, 32; USC, 25; Houston, 7; Fresno State, 6; South Carolina, 5; Army, 4; Virginia, 4; Auburn, 4; Virginia Tech, 3; North Texas, 3; Iowa State, 3; Boston College, 1; UAB, 1; Texas Tech, 1; Buffalo, 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.