2018 Week 12 Coaches Football Poll

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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1) Alabama, 10-0 (1,624 total points) (64 first-place votes)
2) Clemson, 10-0 (1,561) (1)
3) Notre Dame, 10-0 (1,490)
4) Michigan, 9-1 (1,415)
5) Georgia, 9-1 (1,369)
6) Oklahoma, 9-1 (1,273)
7) West Virginia, 8-1 (1,173)
8) Ohio State, 9-1 (1,135)
9) Washington State, 9-1 (1,119)
10) LSU, 8-2 (1,078)
11) Central Florida, 9-0 (1,042)
12) Syracuse, 8-2 (849)
13) Utah State, 9-1 (698)
14) Texas, 7-3 (662)
15) Penn State, 7-3 (646)
16) Florida, 7-3 (604)
17) Washington, 7-3 (591)
18) Iowa State, 6-3 (403)
19) Utah, 7-3 (387)
20) Cincinnati, 9-1 (383)
21) Kentucky, 7-3 (318)
22) Boston College, 8-2 (309)
23) Mississippi State, 6-4 (219)
24) Boise State, 8-2 (129)
25) UAB, 9-1 (102)

Others Receiving Votes: Northwestern 87; Fresno State 64; Army 58; Buffalo 56; Virginia 44; Duke 38; NC State 37; Pittsburgh 30; Texas A&M 29; Michigan State 20; Auburn 19; Troy 17; Appalachian State 14; Missouri 13; San Diego State 10; Wisconsin 7; Arizona State 2; Tennessee 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 did not vote while on administrative leave, and he recently was fired by the university.