Sporting News Ranking of FBS college football coaches

[Tom McKrackin]

108. Seth Littrell, North Texas (104 last season)

Others of interest:

87. Willie Fritz, Tulane (95)

73. Sonny Dykes, SMU (69)

54. Bill Clark, UAB (52)

53. Billy Napier, Louisiana (82)

41. Neal Brown, West Virginia (37)

36. Gus Malzahn, UCF (13)

100. Jeff Traylor, UTSA (129)

94. Butch Davis, FIU (67)

89. Philip Montgomery, Tulsa (111)

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/list/2021-ranking-college-football-coaches-1-130/aucm7nf38ieq12rwz0wbezasn/2

 

 

[greenminer]

SL's ranking will skyrocket if these recruits actually pan out.

If they don't, he'll be canned and it won't matter.

[PlummMeanGreen]

With the new NCAA 12 team playoff why don’t they just drop all this P5 & G5 crap?  
I feel now the G5 designation is a total discrimination against our group of FBS schools.  Hell, they get their TV money so why do they have to further remind the world that we don’t by waging name classification warfare? 

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Edited July 15, 2021 by PlummMeanGreen

[NorthTexasWeLove]

10 hours ago, PlummMeanGreen said:

With the new NCAA 12 team playoff why don’t they just drop all this P5 & G5 crap?  
I feel with a G5 designation a total discrimination against our group of FBS schools.  Hell, they get their TV money so why do they have to further remind the world that we don’t by waging name classification warfare? 

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That is a media coined nuisance for the sake of not allowing even the most causal college football fan to get confused about the difference in "real" college football and "G5" college football. It's all in the name of money. 

[Greenrex]

For the sake of comparing salaries to the Sporting News ranking, here's a list of coaches salaries as reported by USA last year:

The complete list:

https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/

[untjim1995]

14 hours ago, PlummMeanGreen said:

With the new NCAA 12 team playoff why don’t they just drop all this P5 & G5 crap?  
I feel now the G5 designation is a total discrimination against our group of FBS schools.  Hell, they get their TV money so why do they have to further remind the world that we don’t by waging name classification warfare? 

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About 5-6 years ago, college football media were surveyed about how much time they spend covering anything not in the P5…it was a whopping 5%.
 

They know who butters their bread…

[El Paso Eagle]

The thing I laugh about the most on the "rankings" is how a coach can have a good season or two and jumps on the radar as a "wow, he can coach". Then other coaches who have bad years suddenly have forgot how to coach.

[GrayEagle]

I trust Sporting News on baseball but football is a little out of their league.  I question that they consider transfer portals or coaching changes.  Anyway, I'd rather be underrated and appear to improve greatly than to be overrated and seem to fall flat.