The second-year Power5 head coaches in the initial AP Poll

[Mark Wheeler]

The second-year Power5 head coaches in the initial AP Poll

#5 LSU Brian Kelly
#6 Southern Cal Lincoln Riley
#10 Washington Kalen DeBoer
#13 Notre Dame Marcus Freeman
#15 Oregon Dan Lanning
#17 TCU Sonny Dykes
#20 Oklahoma Brent Venables

Others Receiving Votes
Texas Tech Joey McGuire 101
Duke Mike Elko 4
Florida Billy Napier 4

No Votes
Miami Mario Cristobal
Virginia Tony Elliott
Virginia Tech Brent Pry
Washington State Jake Dickert

HOW THEY FINISHED 2022 SEASON

(Ranking is via the AP Poll) (Sagarin SOS in parenthesis)

#2 TCU Sonny Dykes 13-2 (#5)
#9 WASH Kalen DeBoer 11-2 (#57)
#12 USC Lincoln Riley 11-3 (#39)
#15 ORG Dan Lanning 10-3 (#34)
#16 LSU Brian Kelly 10-4 (#10)
#18 ND Marcus Freeman 9-4 (#50)
#26 DUKE Mike Elko 9-4 (#74)

THE REST (Coaches with the same record are ranked via SOS)

TT Joey McGuire 8-5 (#15)
WSU Jake Dickert 7-6 (#28)
UF Billy Napier 6-7 (#7)
OKL Brent Venables 6-7 (#14)
MIA Mario Cristobal 5-7 (#65)
UVA Tony Elliott 3-7 (#60)
VT Brent Pry 3-8 (#72)

Win/Loss differential between last season and this season for first-year head coaches.

TCU Dykes +8 5-7 to 13-2
WASH DeBoer +7 4-8 to 11-2
USC Riley +7 4-8 to 11-3
DUKE Elko +6 3-9 to 9-4
LSU Kelly +4 6-7 to 10-4
TT McGuire +1 7-6 to 8-5
WSU Dickert NC
ORG Lanning NC
UF Napier NC
ND Freeman -2 11-2 to 9-4
MIA Cristobal -2 7-5 to 5-7
UVA Elliott -3 6-6 to 3-7
VT Pry -3 6-7 to 3-8
OKL Venables -5 11-2 to 6-7

 

[Napier's Army]

Miami is finding out Cristobal can't recruit and we already knew he wasn't a good coach.

 

[JayM]

Miami is finding out Cristobal can't recruit and we already knew he wasn't a good coach.

The coach is important but University Presidents, ADs and Boards of Directors are even more important.

I don't think much of Mario but when so many coaches fail at a particular school, I tend to think there is something wrong with the University as a whole and it's commitment to football.

Florida suffers from this too. Chuck Pell did a good job and got massacred. SOS and Urban won big despite all the challenges of poor facilities, etc. and burned out. No one else could do it.

Look at LSU. Anybody can roll up there and win, even Ed O.

 

[SwampMagic]

Their problem is they have a small fanbase in a city where there's a million better things to do on a Saturday than to drive 45 minutes to watch a game that has none of the college football pageantry you find almost every where else.