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Power Ranking Of Football Coaches, LINK!

CaptainSidneyReilly

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Pitt's Coach Pat is ranked without coaching a game. Looks like others have high expectations on Michigan's Jim Harbaugh too. Here are a number of rankings based on conference and other schools I am interested in and quite a surprise and those that were at Pitt, Wvu and others named by Posters for the Pitt job before Coach Pat got it.

63. Pat Narduzzi, Pittsburgh: Like Beaty, Narduzzi hasn't been a head coach yet, but his potential and Michigan State defenses were enough to bump him up a few spots.

60. Mike London, Virginia - London has recruited well, but the results just haven't been there, as the Cavaliers are 23-38 in his five seasons.




53. Dave Clawson, Wake Forest: Coaching the Demon Deacons is a very difficult job, but it's not the first time Dave Clawson's been tasked with rebuilding a program. He's succeeded before.



52. Al Golden, Miami:
He's had to deal with NCAA sanctions and that bought him some time, but Golden heads into 2015 on one of the hottest seats in the country.



51. Paul Chryst, Wisconsin
: We're willing to wager that Chryst's career mark of 19-19 in three seasons at Pitt will improve now that he's back home in Madison.



50. Kyle Flood, Rutgers:
Flood's done a respectable job maintaining the Rutgers program following Greg Schiano's departure, and an 8-5 campaign in the Big Ten raised some eyebrows.




46. Pat Fitzgerald, Northwestern: Fitzy would have been top 20 a few years ago -- maybe even top 10 -- but after going 10-14 the last two seasons, his star is fading a bit.



45. Randy Edsall, Maryland:
Edsall took UConn to a Fiesta Bowl only seven years after it jumped to the FBS. That's good. His 20-30 record at Maryland is ... not.



44. Larry Fedora, North Carolina:
The Tar Heels have taken a step backward each season Fedora's been in charge, but only the NCAA has kept him from going to a bowl game in each of his seven seasons as a head coach.



43. Dana Holgorsen, West Virginia:
Holgo led the Mountaineers to an Orange Bowl victory his first season in charge, but he's gone only 18-20 since.



42. Dave Doeren, NC State:
Doeren is only 11-14 in two years with the Wolfpack, but he won eight games last season and has two conference titles from his time at Northern Illinois.

40. Steve Sarkisian, USC: Sarkisian has had a lot of talent in his six seasons as a head coach, but he's yet to win 10 games in a season or even a division title.

36. Kirk Ferentz, Iowa: Ferentz has accomplished a lot at Iowa in his 16 seasons, it's just none of those accomplishments have come in the last five seasons and the natives are getting restless.




35. Dan Mullen, Mississippi State: Things finally came together for Mullen in Starkville last season, but can the Bulldogs pull off an encore?



34. Jim Mora, UCLA:
It's hard to argue with Mora's 29-11 start at UCLA ... but hasn't each season left you feeling like the Bruins could have done more?



33. James Franklin, Penn State:
What Franklin accomplished at Vanderbilt was one of the most impressive coaching performances of all time, and should it continue at Penn State, he's going to fly up these rankings in the years to come.



32. David Cutcliffe, Duke:
Cutcliffe has won 19 games in the last two seasons at Duke. What more needs to be said?




29. Todd Graham, Arizona State: Graham has taken a lot of flak for his job-hopping, but you know what? Schools don't want to hire you if you're not a good coach, and schools want to hire Graham.



27. Paul Johnson, Georgia Tech: Johnson has been at Georgia Tech seven seasons, and he's won the Coastal Division four times and played in two Orange Bowls.
LINK:
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/25131535/power-five-college-football-coach-rankings-nos-66-26

23. Rich Rodriguez, Arizona: Had things gone better at Michigan, Rodriguez would be ranked a lot higher. Still, the job he did at West Virginia and what he's doing right now at Arizona are enough to warrant finishing this high. We can only wonder if he'll try his hand at another "blue blood" should the chance come along.

19. Bobby Petrino, Louisville: Say what you want about Petrino -- and a lot of people have said a lot of things about him -- you can't deny the fact that he has won wherever he has been as a college coach. Whether at Louisville, Arkansas, his one season at Western Kentucky, now at Louisville again, he has a formula for success that just works.

17. Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech: Beamer hasn't won an ACC title since 2010, nor has he won more than eight games in any of the past three years, but that doesn't erase what was a sparkling record before that. The only reason you know or care about Virginia Tech football is Beamer. His seven conference titles (three Big East, four ACC) and six BCS bowl appearance speak for themselves.



16. Bill Snyder, Kansas State:
College football's lovable grandfather, Snyder is also one of the best coaches in the country. He took a Kansas State program that was nonexistent to anybody outside the state of Kansas and created a respectable power. He has only won two Big 12 titles, but he has also won at least 10 games in eight of the 16 seasons the Wildcats have been in the Big 12 (he has nine 10-win seasons in 23 years at K-State).



15. Mark Dantonio, Michigan State:
Dantonio came up under Jim Tressel, and he has just about built Michigan State into one of Tressel's Ohio State teams. It took a while to get Sparty rolling, but Dantonio has won two Big Ten titles, a Rose Bowl and 53 games in the past five seasons. He has also beaten up on Michigan in the process.

13. Brian Kelly, Notre Dame: If ranking coaches who turn the purplest on the sidelines, Kelly would be a clear winner. As a coach, though, he has still done pretty well for himself. Kelly's Irish team played for a national title in 2012, which still holds weight, but the problem is that his win total has decreased the last two seasons.

11. Art Briles, Baylor: Briles loves the state of Texas, and a lot of people in Texas love Briles. And for good reason. He has won 89 games in his 12 seasons at Houston and Baylor, and that includes 40 wins in the past four seasons with Baylor. I mean, the man had Baylor -- Baylor! -- in the College Football Playoff conversation last year. Think about that.

9. Jim Harbaugh, Michigan: There are a lot of factors that got Harbaugh this high. There's what he accomplished in the NFL that no doubt plays a role, but mostly what he did at Stanford as well as what Stanford turned into even after he left. Harbaugh was the one who built that foundation, and if he does the same thing at Michigan his name will be mentioned with Bo Schembechler's, and not just because he played quarterback for him.



8. Jimbo Fisher, Florida State:
I can already hear Florida State fans complaining about Fisher being this low. And they have a legitimate gripe! Fisher was tasked with rebuilding a Florida State program that had stagnated under Bobby Bowden and within five seasons he has won at least 10 games four times, three ACC titles and a national championship. That's one hell of a start, no?

5. Gary Patterson, TCU: From the Conference USA to the Mountain West and now the Big 12, it doesn't matter where Patterson coaches the Horned Frogs, he has made a habit of winning games. He has nine seasons of double-digit wins in 14 years, and after a minor adjustment period to Big 12 life, the Frogs went 12-1 last season and nearly qualified for the College Football Playoff. There's a reason Patterson is the highest-ranked coach on this list without a national title to his name.

2. Urban Meyer, Ohio State: Meyer may have only finished in second place in these rankings, but he was incredibly close to taking the top spot. Simply put, there's only one coach you would even consider hiring over Meyer if you had your pick of the litter, and it's not exactly a clear choice. He's 142-26 in his career as a head coach, including three national titles at two different schools. And he's only 50 years old. The odds are better that he'll finish with at least four national titles than the odds of him finishing with only three. The only thing that can stop Urban is Urban.

1. Nick Saban, Alabama: It says a lot about what Saban has done at Alabama that when the Tide go two years without winning a national title you start to wonder if Saban's losing "it." Putting aside the fact that Saban has won four national championships and five SEC titles as a coach, though, there's another fact about Saban that blows my mind. Think about how powerful the SEC has been since the dawn of the BCS era. Now realize that in his 13 seasons as an SEC coach, he's lost only 23 SEC games. That's right, in the toughest division of the toughest conference in the country, Saban has managed to win 77 percent of the time. Hell, at Alabama he's only lost 11 SEC games in eight seasons. Has your head exploded yet?!

LINK
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/25132821/power-five-college-football-coach-rankings-the-top-25

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