There are 69 Power Five teams in college football and 14 Big Ten teams, yet six coaches from the premier midwestern conference made the top 25 in CBS Sports’ latest Power Five head coaches ranking.
The conference has its big three — Michigan football, Ohio State, and Penn State — while others tend to rise and fall any given year, particularly in the West. We’ve seen Iowa, Purdue, Northwestern, and Wisconsin all flirt with being in the driver’s seat, but they’ve all been knocked off by the three aforementioned teams from the East.
Taking into account all 69 head coaches across the Power Five, here is how each Big Ten coach ranks overall as well as against each other.