USA Today releases college football top 25 coaches poll after crazy Week 6
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USA Today has officially released the newest top 25 coaches poll after Week 6 of the 2026 college football season concluded on Saturday.
Saturday featured some electric matchups, including the Red River Rivalry between Texas and Oklahoma, Alabama-Georgia, Kentucky-LSU, and even Indiana-Nebraska.
Some of these results helped shape the new coaches’ poll, especially the Texas-Oklahoma game. Oklahoma upset top-ranked Texas, and the latter has dropped a bit in the new coaches’ poll.
Here’s a full look at the Week 6 coaches poll for the 2026 season.
2026 Coaches Poll Top 25 rankings – Week 6
- Georgia
- Notre Dame
- Miami
- Indiana
- Ohio State
- Texas
- Alabama
- BYU
- Texas Tech
- Ole Miss
- Utah
- UCLA
- Missouri
- Tennessee
- USC
- Iowa
- Kentucky
- Houston
- Mississippi State
- Oklahoma State
- LSU
- SMU
- Wake Forest
- Boise State
- Oregon
Others receiving votes: Northwestern 107; Arizona 92; Nebraska 74; Oklahoma 50; Wisconsin 39; Duke 35; James Madison 33; Florida 32; Pittsburgh 25; New Mexico 16; UTSA 10; Baylor 9; Memphis 6; Oregon State 2; North Carolina 1
About the coaches poll
“The US LBM Coaches Poll is conducted weekly throughout the regular season using a panel of head coaches at Football Bowl Subdivision schools,” USA Today writes. “The panel is chosen by random draw, conference by conference plus independents, from a pool of coaches who have indicated to the American Football Coaches Association their willingness to participate. Each coach submits a Top 25 with a first-place vote worth 25 points, second place 24, and so on down to one point for 25th.”
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