Amway Coaches Poll Week 9: Duke #18
The Week 9 Amway Coaches Poll is out. The survival of the Duke Blue Devils against the Virginia Tech Hokies earned them the eighteen spot in that poll.
For now they are alone, but the North Carolina Tar Heels are sitting just outside the poll. The AP Football Poll for Week 9 shows similar developments over there.
While the Tar Heels are outside the poll, the Pitt Panthers are the second ACC Coastal team in the polls. That would turn them into a possible quality win for the Heels as they play them on Thursday Night. If Pitt was to beat the Heels, they would probably still be ranked by the time they play Duke later in the year. Obviously Miami was exposed and cannot provide a quality win to any of these three Coastal contenders.
The insurgency of Group of Five team in the bottom half of the poll continues. Memphis now dwells in the poll at 16 and has friends in Houston and Toledo in the top twenty. Temple is also ranked after their victory over East Carolina.
Duke will most likely still be ranked when they head to Chapel Hill in two weeks. That means the Tar Heels will be looking at back to back games against ranked opponents. The coming stretch will be important to all the Coastal leaders and they start facing each other on the field.
Week 9 Amway Coaches Poll
1. Ohio State Buckeyes (49)
2. Baylor Bears (10)
3. TCU Horned Frogs (2)
4. LSU Tigers (1)
5. Michigan State Spartans
6. Clemson Tigers (1)
7. Alabama Crimson Tide
8. Stanford Cardinal
9. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
10. Oklahoma State Cowboys
11. Iowa Hawkeyes
12. Florida Gators
13. Oklahoma Sooners
14. Utah Utes
15. Florida State Seminoles
16. Memphis Tigers
17. Michigan Wolverines
18. Duke Blue Devils
19. Houston Cougars
20. Toledo Rockets
21. Ole Miss Rebels
22. Temple Owls
23. Georgia Bulldogs
24. Pitt Panthers
25. UCLA Bruins
Others receiving votes:
Texas A&M 89, Mississippi State 70, North Carolina Tar Heels 55, Wisconsin 36, California 17, Navy 15, USC 14, Northwestern 14, BYU 11, Washington State 11, Oregon 11, Marshall 1, Boise State 1