’s US LBM Coaches Poll page now lays out the 2026 Board of Coaches and the vote totals behind the latest college football rankings. For Tim Albin, the Charlotte coach on that panel, the page is not just a standings update. It is the weekly ledger that helps shape the poll throughout the regular season.
The system is built to run every week through the regular season, with head coaches at Football Bowl Subdivision schools filling out a Top 25. A first-place vote is worth 25 points, a second-place vote 24, and a 25th-place vote one point, so the totals on the page are the direct math of those ballots. Oklahoma State sits at 120 points and Wisconsin at 114, while Cincinnati has 49 and New Mexico 43, a spread that shows how quickly the middle of the board can separate even before the full ranked list is shown.
The panel itself is selected by random draw, conference by conference plus independents, from coaches who have told the American Football Coaches Association they are willing to take part. That is the point of the page: it names the people doing the voting and shows what their ballots produced. The 2026 Board of Coaches includes names such as Ryan Day, Kirby Smart, Matt Rhule, James Franklin and Jeff Brohm, which gives the poll its official footing before the first weekly ranking is even discussed.
But the page also shows the part that does not fit neatly into a Top 25 label. Teams such as Wisconsin, Michigan, UCF, Oklahoma and James Madison all received votes even though they were outside the ranked list shown on the page, and the totals stop well short of the 25-point maximum for a first-place vote. That makes the page less like a simple ranking and more like a snapshot of ballots in progress, where a team can appear in the numbers without appearing in the main order.
That is why the listing matters now. The 2026 season board is set, the weekly polling formula is fixed, and the vote totals on the page give readers a first look at where support is already clustering. The next update will come in the same weekly cycle, when the same panel submits another Top 25 and the totals shift again.
