2018 Week 9 Amway Coaches Poll: Alabama Maintains Lead

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 9 Amway Coaches Poll:

1) Alabama 8-0 (1,548 total points) (60 first-place votes)
2) Clemson, 7-0 (1,488) (2)
3) Notre Dame, 7-0 (1,40)
4) LSU, 7-1 (1,352)
5) Michigan, 7-1 (1,228)
6) Georgia, 6-1 (1,207)
7) Texas, 6-1 (1,146)
8) Oklahoma, 6-1 (1,075)
9) Ohio State, 7-1 (1,030)
10) Central Florida, 7-0 (1,008)
11) Florida, 6-1 (968)
12) West Virginia, 5-1 (794)
13) Washington, 6-2 (729)
14) Kentucky, 6-1 (689)
15) Washington State, 6-1 (633)
16) Penn State, 5-2 (606)
17) Texas A&M, 5-2 (583)
18) Iowa, 6-1 (447)
19) Wisconsin, 5-2 (430)
20) South Florida, 7-0 (390)
21) Oregon, 5-2 (383)
22) North Carolina State, 5-1 (222)
23) Stanford, 5-2 (180)
24) Utah, 5-2 (107)
25) Miami (Florida), 5-2 (95)

Other receiving votes: Appalachian State, 78; Utah State, 63; San Diego State, 62; Houston, 30; Cincinnati, 30; Fresno State, 22; Mississippi State, 18; Virginia, 17; Auburn, 13; Colorado, 9; Buffalo, 9; Army, 8; Duke, 6; Texas Tech, 8; Purdue, 7; UAB, 6; South Carolina, 5; Virginia Tech, 4; Syracuse, 3; Georgia Southern, 2; Michigan 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.