Welcome to the point on the college football calendar that we’ve closed the school year and spring practice is a distant memory but remain over 80 days until regular season games begin. What does that mean? Lists of the best and worst of certain things and a whole lot of them.
Bill Bender of The Sporting News released his college football head coach rankings from 132-1 on Tuesday. After just one year as a head coach Marcus Freeman of Notre Dame checked in 30th in Bender’s rankings as the Irish went 9-4 with a Gator Bowl victory in his first season.
Who did Bender rank as his top coaches and who may have showed up a little lower than we think they should have? Here are Bender’s top 35 and our thoughts on each.