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How coaches salaries and the NIL bill affects college football
Dan Wolken breaks down the annual college football coaches compensation package to discuss salaries and how the NIL bill affects them.
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College football’s coaches with a national championship top our top-25 list that’s dominated by the Big Ten and SEC.Kirby Smart headlines a top trio that includes Ryan Day and Dabo Swinney.Next wave of coaches behind championship trio includes Steve Sarkisian, James Franklin, Dan Lanning.
Only three active college football coaches have won a national championship. Each member of that championship trio is ranked within the top three of our USA TODAY rankings of the nation’s top 25 coaches.
The rest of the top 10 is filled with coaches who could conceivably capture a national championship one day, based on their track record of winning and their presence at a program with enough clout to thrive.
The Big Ten leads all conferences with eight coaches ranked in our top 25, followed by the SEC’s seven. Those two conferences account for nine of the coaches ranked within our top 10.
These rankings reflect an aggregate of the ballots of five USA TODAY sportswriters who each voted for their top 25.
Here’s our USA TODAY top 25 college football coaches:
1. Kirby Smart (Georgia)
If you want to know how good a coach is, consider what constitutes his down season. Smart’s 11-3 record last season year, complete with an SEC championship and a College Football Playoff berth, counts as his version of a down season. He raised Georgia’s bar to annual expectations of a national championship. Smart remains an elite recruiter and developer, on top of being an excellent motivator. He’s built Georgia to last.
2. Ryan Day (Ohio State)
While he has come under fire for the Buckeyes losing four in a row against Michigan, Day enters his seventh…
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