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Amway Coaches Poll 

HOW THE POLL WORKS 

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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BIGGEST MOVERS

BIGGEST RISE: 

Cowboys 

RANK

19th 

CHANGE

4

BIGGEST FALL: 

Spartans 

RANK

24th 

CHANGE

11

FULL RANKINGS

TOP 25 TEAMS, WEEK 3

RANK	TEAM	RECORD	POINTS	1ST PLACE VOTES	PREV	CHANGE	HI/LOW
1	Alabama	2-0	1571	59	1	–	1/1
2	Clemson	2-0	1481	3	2	–	2/2
3	Georgia	2-0	1437	0	3	–	3/4
4	Ohio State	2-0	1391	1	4	–	3/4
5	Oklahoma	2-0	1319	0	5	–	5/5
6	Wisconsin	2-0	1252	0	6	–	6/7
7	Auburn	2-0	1221	0	7	–	7/10
8	Notre Dame	2-0	1029	0	8	–	8/11
9	Stanford	2-0	1010	0	9	–	9/13
10	Penn State	2-0	930	0	10	–	9/10
11	Virginia Tech	2-0	862	0	14	3	11/17
12	Washington	1-1	852	0	11	-1	6/12
13	Louisiana State	2-0	850	0	15	2	13/24
14	Texas Christian	2-0	743	0	16	2	14/16
15	West Virginia	2-0	727	0	17	2	15/20
16	Mississippi State	2-0	650	0	18	2	16/18
17	Boise State	2-0	507	0	19	2	17/22
18	Central Florida	2-0	438	0	20	2	18/23
19	Oklahoma State	2-0	325	0	23	4	19/25
20	Miami	1-1	296	0	21	1	8/21
21	Southern California	1-1	295	0	12	-9	12/21
22	Michigan	1-1	270	0	22	–	14/22
23	Oregon	2-0	255	0	NR	3	23/NR
24	Michigan State	1-1	152	0	13	-11	12/24
25	Arizona State	2-0	92	0	NR	–	25/25

*Hi/Low Rankings 

Hi/Low = The highest and lowest ranking each team has held during the designated season. Any team that starts the season unranked and/or falls out of the top 25 during the season will reflect a "NR" (not ranked) designation as its lowest rank.

Schools Dropped Out

No. 24 South Carolina. 

Others Receiving Votes

Texas A&M 87; Utah 86; Houston 46; South Carolina 43; Boston College 37; Kentucky 34; South Florida 27; Washington State 21; Colorado 20; Florida State 17; NC State 16; Iowa 15; Duke 13; Appalachian State 12; Cincinnati 11; Hawaii 10; Maryland 9; Missouri 8; Vanderbilt 3; Memphis 3; Arkansas State 1; Texas 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.