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Alabama and Clemson hold down the top two spots in the preseason Amway Coaches Poll released Thursday, the same places they landed in the final 2015 rankings after the Crimson Tide outlasted the Tigers 45-40 in an instant classic of a championship game.
Those two squads garnered all but two of the first-place votes from the panel of 64 FBS head coaches. Alabama topped 55 of the ballots while the Tigers received seven No. 1 nods. Fourth-ranked Florida State and No. 10 Tennessee received a first-place vote each.