CBS Sports has been ranking the top 25 coaches in the Power 5 conferences in college football since 2016. Their goal is to create a pecking order to keep in mind when top jobs become open and to highlight who are the elite coaches in the sport.
When putting together the list, the experts who rank the coaches say the top 10 is fairly straightforward, but anything after that is mainly opinion based.
As with most things related to analyzing sports, a lot of things are based on opinion and can be argued one way or another. That’s what makes sports and college football so great. It’s hard to truly know if the fifth best Pac-12 coach is worse than the fifth best Big Ten coach when they are playing different teams and schedules.
[autotag]James Franklin[/autotag] has been a topic of conversation with Penn State fans and college football fans in general when discussing if he’s truly one of the best in the country.
Here are the top 25 Power 5 coaches in the country according to CBS Sports and where coach Franklin is ranked.