When trying to answer the question of "who is the best coach in college football", there is generally one consensus answer that we have all grown to accept: Alabama's Nick Saban.
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As for ranking a Top 5 or even Top 10, there are plenty of ways to go, but a few coaches are generally expected to be in certain spots. Well, unless you are Athlon Sports apparently.
Athlon released a full ranking of all 128 FBS coaches, and it is a pretty good list overall. However, we do have some major questions about how the top coaches ranked out, particularly in the Top 5. Let's take a look at that part of the list:
.@AthlonSports ranked the top #CFB coaches in the country & only 1 SEC coach made the top 10 pic.twitter.com/cBaH9hzp4z
— Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) June 21, 2016
Harbaugh at No. 3? Bob Stoops at No. 5? And what the heck is Dabo Swinney doing all the way down at No. 9?
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By Athlon's own admission, these rankings are not supposed to be just a list of who has the most accomplishments; they are actually trying to figure out the quality of the coaching if each coach were to be presented with a "blank slate" scenario.
If that's the case, then why is Swinney so far behind Meyer at Ohio State, Harbaugh at Michigan, and Stoops at Oklahoma? The coach has single-handedly killed the word "Clemsoning", yet he's behind all of these guys at historically significant powerhouses? Doesn't quite seem right.
I guess time will tell, but for now, it looks like they got this one wrong.
