Ole Miss lands at No. 15 on Preseason Amway Coaches poll
The Amway Preseason Coaches Poll was released Thursday, and the Ole Miss Rebels landed at No. 15.
Ole Miss joins seven other Southeastern Conference schools (No. 3 Alabama, No. 7 Auburn, No. 9 Georgia, No. 13 LSU, No. 20 Arkansas, No. 23 Missouri and No. 25 Tennessee) in this year’s top 25 poll.
Five of the ranked SEC schools are out of the SEC Western Division. Mississippi State and Texas A&M didn’t make the final cut but received 164 and 149 votes, respectively. This is the Rebels’ fifth highest ranking in the Amway Coaches Poll.
Defending national college football playoff champion Ohio State was the unanimous No. 1 team in the country, receiving 62 of 64 first-place votes. The TCU Horned Frogs and the Crimson Tide received the other two first-place votes.
Rank Team (1st-place votes)
1 Ohio State (62)
2 TCU (1)
3 Alabama (1)
4 Baylor
5 Oregon
6 Michigan State
7 Auburn
8 Florida State
9 Georgia
10 USC
11 Notre Dame
12 Clemson
13 LSU
14 UCLA
15 Ole Miss
16 Arizona State
17 Georgia Tech
18 Wisconsin
19 Oklahoma
20 Arkansas
21 Stanford
22 Arizona
23 Missouri
24 Boise State
25 Tennesse
For the others receiving votes and to see how the poll works, please click here.