Amway Coaches Poll Week 12: North Carolina #12
The Amway Coaches Poll for Week 12 is out. The big thing to notice is the jump of the North Carolina Tar Heels to number 12. This puts them just outside the top ten as teams have been beating up on each other among those top ranks.
The Tar Heels have moved from number 23 to number 12 in this poll in the last two weeks. That is partly from putting sixty-six on Duke and fifty-nine on Miami. It is also because Florida State lost to Clemson, LSU dropped two games, and other teams have gotten beat in front of the Heels.
North Carolina still has a limited path to the playoff. Neither Virginia Tech nor NC State will be seen as a quality win at this point. Only a meeting with Clemson in Charlotte would be a gamechanger.
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Meanwhile other teams around the Heels will need to lose. The Big 12 has TCU, Baylor, and Oklahoma along with unbeaten Oklahoma State. Those teams still have to play each other and that may enable North Carolina to rise further. Notre Dame has to face Stanford, which also could help the Tar Heels with a Cardinal win.
North Carolina beat Illinois by 34. Ohio State beat Illinois by 25. North Carolina beat Wake Forest by 36. Notre Dame beat Wake Forest by 21. Sure it’s cherry-picking, but it suggests that this is not as crazy as it might have seemed at the beginning of year.
Appalachian State remained in the others receiving votes section. The Mountaineers are still a game behind Arkansas State in the Sun Belt title race.
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Week 12 Amway Coaches Poll
1. Clemson Tigers (28 first-place votes)
2. Ohio State Buckeyes (32)
3. Alabama Crimson Tide (4)
4. Oklahoma State Cowboys
5. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
6. Iowa Hawkeyes
7. Oklahoma Sooners
8. Florida Gators
9. Michigan State Spartans
10. Baylor Bears
11. TCU Horned Frogs
12. North Carolina Tar Heels
13. Michigan Wolverines
14. Houston Cougars
15. Stanford Cardinal
16. Florida State Seminoles
17. LSU Tigers
18. Utah Utes
19. Navy Midshipmen
20. Wisconsin Badgers
21. Northwestern Wildcats
22. Oregon Ducks
23. Washington State Cougars
24. USC Trojans
t25. Ole Miss Rebels
t25. Mississippi State Bulldogs
Others receiving votes:
UCLA 57; Memphis 51; Georgia 35; Toledo 33; Arkansas 28; Texas A&M 25; Temple 17; Pittsburgh 14; Western Kentucky 11; Bowling Green 8; Louisville 3; Arkansas State 2; Appalachian State Mountaineers 2; Brigham Young 1; Marshall 1.