With 17 starters returning and a very deep and talented roster, the UCLA Football team is ranked 14th in the 2015 preseason Amway Coaches Poll.
Today the Amway Coaches Poll was released giving us a look into the 2015 college football season and with that, UCLA Football was selected as the 14th best team in the nation. With the Bruins returning several starters, they will be looking to build off of the success of their 2014 season in which they finished winning back-to-back 10-win seasons for the first time since 1998 and a victory in the Valero Alamo Bowl.
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The Bruins are among six Pac-12 teams that made the Top 25 as Oregon, USC, Arizona State, Stanford and Arizona also made the list. As for the top team in the nation, the Coaches Poll has pegged reigning National Champion Ohio State as the #1 program.
Here is the full Amway Coaches Poll Top 25:
UCLA Bruins
1. Ohio State (62) – 1598 pts
2. TCU (1) – 1487
3. Alabama (1) – 1452
4. Baylor – 1365
5. Oregon – 1260
6. Michigan State – 1230
7. Auburn – 1103
8. Florida State – 1057
9. Georgia – 1026
10. USC – 1014
11. Notre Dame – 883
12. Clemson – 838
13. LSU – 727
14. UCLA – 697
15. Ole Miss – 668
16. Arizona State – 577
17. Georgia Tech – 573
18. Wisconsin – 470
19. Oklahoma – 407
20. Arkansas – 377
21. Stanford – 365
22. Arizona – 299
23. Missouri – 229
24. Boise State – 190
25. Tennessee – 166
Although the Coaches Poll has been seen as more and more as an irrelevant poll with the overshadowing by the AP poll and the College Football Playoff committee, it is still one of the best gauges for predicting the Top 25 of the nation’s best teams.
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