Cards Remain #7 in Both AP & Coaches Polls

Chris PersonOctober 16, 2016

AP:

(###) Number of first place votes


1	Alabama (60) SEC Record: 7-0	PV Rank 1 Points 1,524
2	Ohio State Big Ten Record: 6-0	2 1,457
3	Michigan (1) Big Ten Record: 6-0	4 1,368
4	Clemson ACC Record: 7-0	3 1,337
5	Washington Pac-12 Record: 6-0	5 1,304
6	Texas A&M SEC Record: 6-0	6 1,218
7	Louisville ACC Record: 5-1	7 1,168
8	Nebraska Big Ten Record: 6-0	10 1,037
9	Baylor Big 12 Record: 6-0	11 1,021
10	Wisconsin Big Ten Record: 4-2	8 935
11	Houston The American Record: 6-1	13 766
12	West Virginia Big 12 Record: 5-0	20 744
13	Florida State ACC Record: 5-2	14 733
14	Boise State Mountain West Record: 6-0	15 694
15	Florida SEC Record: 5-1	18 626
16	Oklahoma Big 12 Record: 4-2	19 612
17	Arkansas SEC Record: 5-2	22 584
18	Tennessee SEC Record: 5-2	9 550
19	Utah Pac-12 Record: 6-1	21 479
20	Western Michigan Mid-American Record: 7-0	24 285
21	Auburn SEC Record: 4-2	23 277
22	North Carolina ACC Record: 5-2	– 254
23	Mississippi SEC Record: 3-3	12 188
24	Navy The American Record: 4-1	25 163
25	LSU SEC Record: 4-2	– 123

Coaches:

FULL RANKINGS

TOP 25 TEAMS, WEEK 8

RANK	TEAM	RECORD	POINTS	1ST PLACE VOTES	PREV	CHANGE	HI/LOW
1	Alabama	7-0	1597	61	1	0	1/1
2	Ohio State	6-0	1524	2	2	0	2/5
3	Clemson	7-0	1432	1	3	0	2/3
4	Michigan	6-0	1413	0	4	0	4/8
5	Washington	6-0	1366	0	5	0	5/18
6	Texas A&M	6-0	1287	0	6	0	6/NR
7	Louisville	5-1	1207	0	7	0	4/23
8	Baylor	6-0	1130	0	8	0	8/21
9	Nebraska	6-0	1114	0	9	0	9/NR
10	Wisconsin	4-2	874	0	10	0	8/NR
11	Houston	6-1	841	0	12	1	5/13
12	Florida	5-1	830	0	14	2	14/25
13	West Virginia	5-0	781	0	18	5	18/NR
14	Boise State	6-0	772	0	15	1	15/NR
15	Florida State	5-2	709	0	16	1	2/21
16	Oklahoma	4-2	600	0	20	4	3/NR
17	Arkansas	5-2	570	0	22	5	17/NR
18	Utah	6-1	538	0	21	3	18/NR
19	Tennessee	5-2	457	0	11	-8	9/15
20	Western Michigan	7-0	317	0	23	3	23/NR
21	North Carolina	5-2	250	0	30	9	16/NR
22	Mississippi	3-3	182	0	13	-9	12/21
23	Louisiana State	4-2	176	0	25	2	6/NR
24	Auburn	4-2	156	0	26	2	–
25	Navy	4-1	133	0	28	3	–

*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. 17 Miami (Fla.), No. 19 Virginia Tech, No. 24 Arizona State.

Others Receiving Votes

Colorado 121; South Florida 108; Miami (Fla.) 74; Oklahoma State 51; Washington State 49; Virginia Tech 37; North Carolina State 18; Stanford 16; Memphis 14; San Diego State 13; Troy 10; Pittsburgh 7; Southern California 6; TCU 6; Arizona State 6; Iowa 4; Appalachian State 2; Brigham Young 1; Tulsa 1.

List of Voters

The Amway Board of Coaches is made up of 64 head coaches at Bowl Subdivision schools. All are members of the American Football Coaches Association. The board for the 2016 season: Chris Ash, Rutgers; Dino Babers, Syracuse; David Bailiff, Rice; David Beaty, Kansas; Bret Bielema, Arkansas; John Bonamego, Central Michigan; Terry Bowden, Akron; Matt Campbell, Iowa State; Ron Caragher, San Jose State; Rod Carey, Northern Illinois; Paul Chryst, Wisconsin; Chris Creighton, Eastern Michigan; David Cutcliffe, Duke; DJ Durkin, Maryland; Larry Fedora, North Carolina; Jimbo Fisher, Florida State; James Franklin, Penn State; Justin Fuente, Virginia Tech; Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State; Bryan Harsin, Boise State; Clay Helton, Southern California; Tom Herman, Houston; Doc Holliday, Marshall; Skip Holtz, Louisiana Tech; Joey Jones, South Alabama, Brian Kelly, Notre Dame; Sean Kugler, Texas-El Paso; Mike Leach, Washington State; Lance Leipold, Buffalo; Seth Littrell, North Texas; Rocky Long, San Diego State; Mike MacIntyre, Colorado; Gus Malzahn, Auburn; Chuck Martin, Miami (Ohio); Doug Martin, New Mexico State; Derek Mason, Vanderbilt; Urban Meyer, Ohio State; Trent Miles, Georgia State; Philip Montgomery, Tulsa; Scottie Montgomery, East Carolina; Chad Morris, Southern Methodist; Dan Mullen, Mississippi State; Mike Norvell, Memphis; Gary Patterson, TCU; Chris Petersen, Washington; Brian Polian, Nevada; Mark Richt, Miami (Fla.); Mike Riley, Nebraska; Rich Rodriguez, Arizona; Nick Saban, Alabama; Tony Sanchez, UNLV; Scott Satterfield, Appalachian State; Kirby Smart, Georgia; Frank Solich, Ohio; Rick Stockstill, Middle Tennessee State; Bob Stoops, Oklahoma; Kevin Sumlin, Texas AM; Dabo Swinney, Clemson; Tommy Tuberville, Cincinnati; Ron Turner, Florida International; Matt Wells, Utah State; Kyle Whittingham, Utah; Kevin Wilson, Indiana; Everett Withers, Texas State.