Meet the college football coaches in the Amway Coaches Poll
August is here, which means it's almost time to unveil the 2018 preseason Amway Coaches Poll.
This year's voting panel includes the four active college football coaches who have won national titles -- Clemson’s Dabo Swinney, Alabama's Nick Saban, Ohio State’s Urban Meyer and Texas A&M's Jimbo Fisher. The preseason poll will be released Thursday at noon ET Thursday.
The Amway Coaches Poll, in its 28th season administered by Paste BN Sports, features experience-rich coaches who bring up-close perspective with their votes every week.
Among the other big names joining this year's panel of 65 voting coaches are Penn State’s James Franklin, Southern California’s Clay Helton, Texas’ Tom Herman, Washington State’s Mike Leach, Auburn’s Gus Malzahn and TCU’s Gary Patterson.
The panel of 65 coaches in the Bowl Subdivision is put together by the American Football Coaches Association. The panel is chosen by random draw, conference by conference plus independents, from a pool of coaches who have indicated to the AFCA their willingness to participate.
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&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