SEC Football: 6 Teams Make Final Coaches Poll

6 SEC football teams made it into the Amway Coaches Poll final top 25 rankings, which is one more than the AP Poll.

Yesterday we discussed the AP Poll and whether the five SEC football teams in those rankings got their due credit or not. We won’t rehash that here, as the rankings are very similar. We did want to provide you with the Coaches Poll, though, for comparative reasons.

As always we’ll list the SEC teams in bold and list the movement in their rankings. The one team that made the Coaches Poll but failed to make the AP Poll was the Georgia Bulldogs. Several SEC football coaches have bonuses in their contract due to where their team falls in the final rankings in polls. Some may not care about the Coaches Poll but I guarantee many coaches do.

Coaches Poll Top 25

Alabama (up one)

Clemson

Stanford

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Notes:

-Other SEC football teams that received votes but missed being ranked are Mississippi State (31) and Arkansas (33). Mississippi State has their late season slide to blame while Arkansas can thanks early season losses to Toledo and Texas Tech for not being ranked.

-I don’t understand how you can be willing to move Tennessee six spots up and drop Northwestern 10 and still not have Tennessee ranked above them. If you didn’t want to drop Northwestern that much, fine. But having Northwestern at 22 and Tennessee at 23 makes no sense whatsoever due to their bowl result.

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– Further confusing matters as to why Northwestern didn’t drop behind Tennessee is that Northwestern was already the team that dropped the most by falling 10 spots from their previous ranking. The Houston Cougars experienced the biggest jump in their rankings, climbing 8 spots.