Clemson stays No. 4 in Coaches Poll

by Brandon Rink - Staff Writer - Sun Oct 07 12:33:45 GMT-04:00 2018

An upset-filled week didn't affect the top-four of the new USA TODAY Coaches Poll.

Clemson stayed at No. 4 after a 63-3 win over Wake Forest, while wins also kept Alabama (1), Georgia (2) and Ohio State (3) in place.

Notre Dame moved up two spots to No. 5 after a win at Virginia Tech and upsets suffered by previous top-6 teams in Oklahoma (versus Texas) and LSU (at Florida).

NC State (5-0) found a spot in the top-20 (19) after a home conference win over Boston College. They travel to Clemson for an Oct. 20 matchup.

USA TODAY Coaches Poll - Oct. 7

RANK TEAM RECORD

1 Alabama 6-0 (61 first place votes)

2 Georgia 6-0

3 Ohio State 6-0 (1)

4 Clemson 6-0 (2)

5 Notre Dame 6-0

6 West Virginia 5-0

7 Washington 5-1

8 Penn State 4-1

9 Central Florida 5-0

10 Wisconsin 4-1

11 Oklahoma 5-1

12 Louisiana State 5-1

13 Michigan 5-1

14 Texas 5-1

15 Miami 5-1

16 Florida 5-1

17 Oregon 4-1

18 Colorado 5-0

19 NC State 5-0

20 Kentucky 5-1

21 Auburn 4-2

22 Texas A&M 4-2

23 South Florida 5-0

24 Stanford 4-2

25 Cincinnati 6-0

Schools Dropped Out

No. 19 Michigan State, No. 23 Virginia Tech, No. 24 Boise State.

Others Receiving Votes

Washington State 113; Iowa 89; Mississippi State 67; Appalachian State 38; Texas Christian 33; San Diego State 25; Utah 12; Utah State 11; South Carolina 10; Duke 8; Troy 8; Hawaii 6; Boise State 6; Syracuse 6; Virginia Tech 2; Michigan State 1; Army 1; UAB 1; Fresno State 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&amp;amp;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.