I hesitated over whether I wanted to bring attention to something this ridiculous, but I gave in.
Pro Football Focus does many things well, let me get that out there to start.
One thing it doesn’t do well is rate the top college football coaches in the country.
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PFF recently ranked the top 20 college football coaches, and Brian Kelly didn’t just miss the top five, he wasn’t included in the top 10.
Kelly checked in 12th, and here is what PFF had to say about the Fighting Irish head coach:
It feels like a long time ago, but Notre Dame had fallen on hard times after the dominant Lou Holtz era that spanned the late 80s and early 90s. Holtz won 76% of his games in South Bend. Bob Davie and Tyrone Willingham then went on to win only 58% of their games combined before Charlie Weis’ five years produced a 56% win rate. That’s not good enough at Notre Dame.
Kelly has won 72% of his games with the Golden Domers to go along with an incredible four-year run at Cincinnati that saw him win 34 of 40 games, three years at Central Michigan where he produced the school’s first double-digit-win season since 1979 and a 118-52-2 mark with Grand Valley State that culminated in two Division II Championship titles.
OK, so we’re just looking at win percentages compared to the coaches just before each?
No. 12 isn’t bad, but some names ahead of Kelly really leave you scratching your head: