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More from the Legends (Poll) of the Fall

By Chris Dufresne
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Texas is the runaway winner again of the weekly coaching Legends poll, leading the field with 17 first-place votes.

There are 18 former coaches voting, so that means one isn’t on the Longhorns bandwagon, and that one is former Arizona State Coach Frank Kush, who still has Alabama as his top team.

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That Kush was always a stubborn one, wasn’t he?

The Legends’ top 10 is Texas, Alabama, Penn State, Florida, Oklahoma, USC, Texas Tech, Georgia, Oklahoma State and Utah.

And here’s a switch: Former UCLA Coach Terry Donahue no longer has USC ranked higher than former USC Coach John Robinson has the Trojans ranked.

Robinson bumped USC up to No. 4 this week, no doubt impressed with the nation’s No.1 defense and its performance in a 17-10 win against Arizona. Donahue has USC at No. 7.

-- Chris Dufresne

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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