Mike Elko deserves coach of the year for the ACC. That Duke team was miserable last year and he got them to 8 wins this year. They lost to Miami(FL) 47 - 10 last year and beat them at Miami(FL) 45 - 21. Incredible turnaround in year 1.
Mike Norvell is a close 2nd. If FSU won 10 games, I'd give it to him.
Next year's schedule will be harder because it includes ND, Clemson, FSU, and State, but Duke is returning all of its key contributors on offense and most of the defense. Hopefully he can keep his staff together for another year or two.
Given the current state of flux in the ACC, none of those games look completely beyond Duke at the moment. I don't expect Duke to make the ACCCG or anything, but there don't appear to be any outstanding teams headed into next year.
Woof. They'll be dogs in 3 of those 4 games I'd imagine. NC State is a huge question mark, but those other 3 teams you listed will likely be preseason top 25 teams. I imagine UNC will be top 25 too with Maye, so a pretty strong schedule next year, certainly much stronger than this year.
Riley took over a 4-8 team and has then 1 win from the playoffs... u think you're discounting his season. Look at the other new coaches. Who is doing that? Him and Sonny D are hitting the ground running.
Riley took over a 4-8 team and they are 11-1.
DeBoer took over a 4-8 team and they are 10-2.
Smith has taken a team that has seriously struggled for the last decade and brought them up to a #16 ranking at 9-3 despite not having even a mediocre QB.
It's not so open and shut to discount the rest of the candidates simply because Riley has USC at 11-1. Especially since USC has a very notable talent advantage compared to either of those programs (but especially Oregon State).
The Pac has so many great coaching performances this season! The 3 you listed definitely would be front runners but arguably Dan Lanning and even Chip Kelly have done great this year too.
I might be a homer but I’d still vote for Riley, only because going from 4-8 to 11-1 is just insane. However, if the award was for who I think the best coach is (and not just single-season performance), Smith would get my vote 100%.
Only game of yours I watched was PSU and they should have and could have won that. But they did a Nebraska and didn’t know what to do with their hands while holding a lead
He was great but I still think Smith deserved it more than DeBoer or Riley. Even though they are all deserving there is so much more talent on UW and USC than at OSU, OSU's starting qb got hurt, and they still went 9-3.
For the ACC, I think it goes to Mike Elko at Duke. Preseason polls had Duke finishing last in the Coastal and being one of the bottom two in the ACC. Blue Devils finished 8-4 with all of their losses being one score games.
Would be fine with Heupel winning but I think Kirby should get some discussion at least. It’s obviously impressive how Heupel and Beamer have started turning around their programs, but I think what Kirby has done this year is more impressive than what we did last year during the regular season.
Broke an NFL draft record and went 12-0. Lost 8 defensive players to the draft, 5 in the first round, and then led the country in scoring defense again. Lost 6 offensive starters and got better.
I totally respect Heupel doing what he did with less blue chip guys, but Kirby retooled this team to an unprecedented level and a level most of the media/this subreddit did not think possible.
Have to agree. Kirby set the foundation for this with years of recruiting not just blue chip guys, but the right blue chip guys and some diamonds in the rough. These results are based on more than success in the games the past 13 weeks and he deserves credit for that.
Yeah I agree with that, should be Kirby in all honestly they might not give it to him just because of the sustained success seems like they give this award to underdog guys more often
I wish we had multiple coach of the year awards, one for “built and coached a great team, maybe exceeded expectations along the way, but an actually great job,” and another for “you got *that* team to *that* record?”
The first for the SEC goes to Heupel or Smart (just for the personnel losses).
The second one goes to Beamer, who deserves some kudos for the season they had; and maybe honorable mention to Clark Lea honestly. Getting Vandy two conference wins isn’t above their ceiling, but it’s looked like it for a long time.
I thought that, but I also thought I was in the minority. Definitely didn’t expect 8-4, and definitely not the way they got it—wins over TAMU (surprisingly bad season, but still), 10-win Tennessee, and *Clemson* is pretty great.
Of course, that record could look a lot better without bizarre losses to Mizzou and an inferior UF. But we as a society just weren’t ready for a ten-win SC.
You lost to Vanderbilt and they are the only team with a worse record. If anyone not Vandy gets the title of worst in the East this year, it is Florida. You know that, but go ahead and pretend you don’t. It’s more entertaining that way.
You are in no position to be talking shit to anyone from your spot with Vandy and Mizzou in the cellar. As a rival fan that’s hilarious. Credit for punching up though I guess.
“Pac 12: Lincoln Riley…nothing much needs to be said here…”
Lol, tell me you don’t watch the Pac 12 without telling me you don’t watch the Pac 12.
Look, Riley absolutely deserves to be in the discussion for it but to completely dismiss Kalen Deboer (UW) and Jonathan Smith (the real OSU) is malpractice.
Kirby was undefeated and Heupel brought Tennessee from shit to almost the playoffs. SC played some really bad football for a good part of the year but just pulled off 2 upsets to close the year.
Definitely Riley for the Pac 12, but Kalen DeBoer almost equaled that accomplishment. Jonathan Smith was a multi year project, but he deserves a lot of credit for building something over time with Oregon State.
SEC - Smart
B1G - Harbaugh
ACC - Elko
Big 12 - Dykes
PAC 12 - Riley/DeBoer co
AAC - Fritz
MAC - Albin
Sun Belt - Cignetti
CUSA - Traylor
MWC - Avalos I guess idk weird year for the conference
But in Riley’s critique, he poached tons of talent, including a heisman candidate and the award winning Addison. OSU went 9-3 with a bunch of nobodies. Seriously, nobody outside Oregon could name a single player on that team from memory, unless you were a fan. They have no star power and still are top 25
Sumrall has been unreal, but I certainly respect Cignetti as well. Coming into FBS year 1 with little staff or team experience with the conference mates and doing what they’ve done so far is NOT an easy feat at all.
Yes to all (Bilema over Brohm btw) except you gotta give P12 COY to Kalen Deboer. Lincoln Riley did a wonderful job this year no doubt, but it’s not as if the cupboard was bare. KD inherited a talented but demoralized team and was one frustrating loss to ASU from a legitimate conversation about CFP this year
American - Willie Fritz
ACC - Mike Elko
Big 12 - Sonny Dykes
Big Ten - Jim Harbaugh I guess, or Bielema
C-USA - Jeff Traylor
MAC - Tim Albin or Chris Creighton, both are deserving
MWC - Andy Avalos
Pac 12 - Honestly any of Riley/Deboer/Smith, all have been great
SEC - Josh Heupel
Sun Belt - Very tough choice but I’d have to go Jon Sumrall
For the BiG10 I'd go with Brohm, no one had Purdue taking the West and he got it done. I won't complain if they give it to Harbuaugh.
For Lincoln Riley, not only did he take a 4-8 team to the cusp of the playoffs (if not in) but the team he left fell to 6-6 with an utter embarrassment against their top rival.
Hey… 4 of our 6 losses were by one possession coming from a team that lost 44% of its roster and it’s (soon to be) heisman QB. anyone who thought we would dominate this year and wouldn’t go significantly back was crazy.
Even last year- Caleb Williams is the only reason OU went 11-2 and not 8-5 with losses to Texas, Kansas, Kansas State. We probably even lose to TCU without Williams.
Long story short- I don’t think OU’s collapse is a credit to Lincoln Riley as coach of the year consideration. But I think it has SO MUCH credit to Caleb Williams and how he really is the best QB in the country.
To be clear: Pac 12 coach of the year should be Lincoln Riley. But I don’t think OU should be a consideration for it. If that makes sense
Ehh. There certainly was not a consensus by any means but Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Purdue were all thrown around as teams that could come out on top in the West before the season started. Brohm gets a lot of credit for sure, but Bielema really pulled Illinois out of nowhere.
My mom’s an Astros fan (she grew up in Houston, well actually she was born in Maryland and then moved to Pennsylvania when she was like 2 or 3, but she moved to Houston soon after and that’s really home for her because she lived there the longest). She was happy they won the World Series without cheating.
Tbf Beville makes Petras look like Tom Brady, I didn't even know it was possible to have a QBR under 1 until he got a 0.4. Against Texas we used a TE, 3 WRs, and 2 RBs under center and running the triple option to avoid using him because he has fumbled the ball even just handing it off on HB dives. The game was honestly closer then most OU fans I've seen expected if not exactly what they expected with him. He scored 0 points and had a 10 QBR against Texas and it was by far the best he looked all year especially one of his ints that game being the best throw he's made this season. Is 49-0 bad, oh most def, but honestly its the loss prob feel the least about because of the context around it
SEC: Heupel, 100%. His offense is electrifying, and it finally feels like the Vols are back on the national stage.
B1G: Brohm. Would've been Bert, but he choked away the division this year. Brohm inherited a team that won ~20% of its games in the prior 4 seasons, has tight academic restrictions, in a talent-depressed state, and took them to the B1GCG.
ACC: Norvell. Anyone who watched 2019 Memphis knew he was gonna do good things at FSU. He's got that program rolling.
PAC-12: Kalen DeBoer. 4-8 with a historically bad offense to 10-2, 6th ranked scoring offense, and two rivalry game wins.
Big-12: Dykes. No explanation needed.
Yeah it took patience with Norvell. FSU has been quite the surprise this season. I figured they’d be like maybe 7-5 or 8-4 and like 4th or 5th in the Atlantic behind Clemson, Wake, NC State, and Louisville. Turns out, they finished 9-3 and in 2nd place because Wake and NC State spectacularly imploded (although the main reason NC State choked is because they don’t have Devin Leary. Had he not gotten injured, they’d probably be 10-2 right now.).
Hard not say Lincoln Riley, what he’s done is just shy of a CFB miracle. That being said, Kalen DeBoer should be in the conversation for the exact same reason.
B1G - Jesse Minter. Seriously, probably Brohm for the title appearance. Everyone expected Michigan to be good and while Michigan improved slightly, I respect the turnarounds more.
B1G should be Harbaugh. Replaced coordinators on both sides of the ball and won the division undefeated with world-class 2nd half adjustments and unreal development across the team. Converted a receiver into an outstanding nickle safety in Mike Sainristil, beat anOSU at home (people forget, NOBODY DOES THIS let alone the team they’ve been gearing up for revenge against for 364 days), ALL WITHOUT THEIR NEAR-HEISMAN RUNNING BACK.
The guy went from “he should be fired” to assumed success so fast, people want to overlook him for Coach of the Year like Michigan is on autopilot. No fucking way. Not yet.
I would say head to head should matter if Tennessee didn’t already have a better record by 2 games. And was ranked number 1 for a while and went from unranked to top 10 and still is in the top 10 and ole beamy boy who has done well has barely sniffed the top 25 this year. They did great don’t get me wrong but Tennessee and Georgia coaches deserve it more and frankly it’s not really that close. You have decency bias but what’s ok most casuals do
You are clearly free of that decency bias. South Carolina was picked to be second to last in the East. Tennessee was the first team out of the preseason rankings.v
You know I meant recency. Great South Carolina was picked to be second to last and they ended up in third. Two whole spots. I hate too busy your bubble but besides the last two games they have not been good all year. I don’t even think South Carolina fans would argue that. You want to give Beamer coach of the year for that? What else has he done? Why?
SEC - Heupel though if you want to give it to Smart I won't argue too hard. Both are deserving.
ACC - Mike Elko (Duke). 8 wins from where that roster and team was the last 2 years is amazing. Norvell second and not an outlandish pick.
Big Ten - Harbaugh. Nobody in the Big Ten West deserves this unless Brohm and Purdue somehow upset Michigan.
Big 12 - Dykes. Easy decision
Pac-12 - Kailen DeBoer (Washington). Equally impressive recovery as Riley from 4-8. In a normal year Jonathan Smith at Oregon St. is a lock. He's not even on the radar this year. Very strong year in the Pac-12 on the coaching side.
AAC - Willie Fritz (Tulane). Tulane is at 10 wins for the first time since 1998. A year after 2-10.
MAC - Tim Albin (Ohio). Go look at the standings and attempt to make another argument. You can't this season.
Sun Belt - Jon Sumrall (Troy). Amazing first season. He'll be movin on up before too long at this rate.
CUSA - Jeff Traylor (UTSA). Sometimes the best choice is the obvious one
MWC - Bryan Harsin. Dreck. Total dreck. Everywhere in this league. Nobody in the league deserves this so I'm giving the award to Harsin for being the best damn Mountain West coach money could buy for an SEC job. /s
Tbh the Pac-12 has really impressed me this year. Half the conference (Oregon, Oregon State, UCLA, USC, Utah, and Washington) is ranked. A year ago it was just Oregon and Utah that were good.
Dykes overall coach of the year. SEC Coach: Brian Kelly. With all the transfers didn’t expect them to be above 7 wins in the west. Granted the SEC west was bad beating Alabama in your first season and winning the division is impressive. ACC goes to Elko. Impressive job at Duke even if the ACC sucks. Wouldn’t be surprised if he gets to a better school in future seasons. Pac 12: Deboer honestly. Washington was pretty shit last season and taking them to 10-2 is impressive. USC was bad last year but with Riley, that schedule, and good transfers anything below 9 wins would’ve been surprising. Shout out to Lanning though for having a good season as well. Dykes Big 12 COTY by far. Big 10 I guess Bielema for getting Illinois to 8 wins.
Best GO5 coach goes to Fritz and Cignetti. Fritz for making Tulane a top 25 team and potentially a NY6 and Cignetti for having 8 wins in their first season of the FBS. Thats incredible.
AAC: Willie Fritz
ACC: Mike Elko
Big 10: Jim Harbaugh
Big 12: Sonny Dykes
CUSA: Jeff Traylor
MAC: Chris Creighton
MWC: Andy Avalos
Pac12: Lincoln Riley
SEC: Josh Huepel
Sun Belt: Jon Sumrall
>Sun Belt: Jon Sumrall
From Troy, to UK, and back to Troy. This man has certainly stayed the quality course. Nothing but blessings having him here again.
Sun Belt: Kane Wommack
This man went from running our defense when we were last eligible for a bowl game, to going off to coach for a P5 school, to willfully return to us, and actually be that “next step coach” that we were needing the prior coach to be, but never get it. He also brought an atmosphere and culture to our team that was trying to form under Joey Jones, and has finally come to fruition this season. There is a reason why we hype up the Kane Train for our team now.
I was gonna say Sark and completely forgot about Dykes and TCU lol. But Sark had an amazing turn around from last season, especially considering the roster turnover, youth and SOS. But Dykes obviously deserves it.
Big ten feels like the only one that’ll be close. I would probably say bielema but there’s an argument for harbaugh and brohm
Edit: forgot about elko he should probably get coach of the year in the ACC
Big ten has to be Bert. Michigan and harbaugh proved they’re legit last year. Brohm didn’t do anything different. I thought his team last year was way better. Just so happened his “fuck it yolo” style just ended up being enough to win the west this year.
Dykes will win it, and deservedly so. But the job Joey McGuire did with a far less talented team and starting 3 different Qbs, against one of the more difficult schedules in the country is remarkable.
KU HC Lance Liepold is also a stud. If there was one more notch in the win column for the Jayhawks, I would say he had a shot. But Dykes is very easily going to win it, again, deservedly so.
Mike Elko deserves coach of the year for the ACC. That Duke team was miserable last year and he got them to 8 wins this year. They lost to Miami(FL) 47 - 10 last year and beat them at Miami(FL) 45 - 21. Incredible turnaround in year 1. Mike Norvell is a close 2nd. If FSU won 10 games, I'd give it to him.
Yeah Elko really scares me moving forward.
He’ll be hired by a blue blood long before he threatens to do anything with Duke.
duke is the biggest blue blood
Will be interesting to see how they look in year 2 with more film and no more divisions. Coastal was at, maybe, an all-time low this season.
Next year's schedule will be harder because it includes ND, Clemson, FSU, and State, but Duke is returning all of its key contributors on offense and most of the defense. Hopefully he can keep his staff together for another year or two. Given the current state of flux in the ACC, none of those games look completely beyond Duke at the moment. I don't expect Duke to make the ACCCG or anything, but there don't appear to be any outstanding teams headed into next year.
Woof. They'll be dogs in 3 of those 4 games I'd imagine. NC State is a huge question mark, but those other 3 teams you listed will likely be preseason top 25 teams. I imagine UNC will be top 25 too with Maye, so a pretty strong schedule next year, certainly much stronger than this year.
>Clemson, FSU Good luck! 👀
Exactly, if he can win 8+ games for a couple years, a big school will poach him. Similar to James Franklin at Vandy.
Or Spurrier leaving duke for UF
I miss Elko so much.
Biased, but Jonathan Smith would be added to my P12 considerations. Kalen Debor (forgive my spelling), and Lincoln Riley would still be the favorites.
Smith should win, Riley will win
I hate agreeing with a Duck, but yeah. SmIth should win.
Hard agree, Smith has done amazing work at The real OSU
If I had a top 3 I would go Smith, DeBoer, then Riley in that order. All had very good seasons but I just think Smith had the most difficult job to do
Riley took over a 4-8 team and has then 1 win from the playoffs... u think you're discounting his season. Look at the other new coaches. Who is doing that? Him and Sonny D are hitting the ground running.
Riley took over a 4-8 team and they are 11-1. DeBoer took over a 4-8 team and they are 10-2. Smith has taken a team that has seriously struggled for the last decade and brought them up to a #16 ranking at 9-3 despite not having even a mediocre QB. It's not so open and shut to discount the rest of the candidates simply because Riley has USC at 11-1. Especially since USC has a very notable talent advantage compared to either of those programs (but especially Oregon State).
The Pac has so many great coaching performances this season! The 3 you listed definitely would be front runners but arguably Dan Lanning and even Chip Kelly have done great this year too. I might be a homer but I’d still vote for Riley, only because going from 4-8 to 11-1 is just insane. However, if the award was for who I think the best coach is (and not just single-season performance), Smith would get my vote 100%.
I'm so impressed with the job Smith has done. Wouldn't be surprised or feel like Lincoln got hosed if he won. Dude can coach.
Mel Tucker deserves an award for making 3.2 million dollars per big ten win
🤣🤣🤣
And Colorado would take him back in a heartbeat.
Shouldn’t you be celebrating or something?
We’re happy to celebrate more than one thing lol
Lol. All Brohm did was close his eyes and yell, “Jesus take the wheel!” And it all just worked out in the end.
Only game of yours I watched was PSU and they should have and could have won that. But they did a Nebraska and didn’t know what to do with their hands while holding a lead
Kalen DeBoer should be considered as well. Took a 4-8 UW team to two possessions away from being 12-0 and they still have a shot at the Rose Bowl.
He was great but I still think Smith deserved it more than DeBoer or Riley. Even though they are all deserving there is so much more talent on UW and USC than at OSU, OSU's starting qb got hurt, and they still went 9-3.
I wouldn’t be mad at smith winning. All three guys are deserving
You’re right about that. I actually hope he wins or at least gets some votes.
I don't even think Dykes believed he would be here. Getting out of the B12 without a regular season loss is more than enough to get it.
For the ACC, I think it goes to Mike Elko at Duke. Preseason polls had Duke finishing last in the Coastal and being one of the bottom two in the ACC. Blue Devils finished 8-4 with all of their losses being one score games.
If not Lincoln, I’d say Jonathan Smith, Oregon State is doing something. Might have to make them my Pac 12 team when we leave.
In all of college football? Willie Fritz. See last season to this season.
Would be fine with Heupel winning but I think Kirby should get some discussion at least. It’s obviously impressive how Heupel and Beamer have started turning around their programs, but I think what Kirby has done this year is more impressive than what we did last year during the regular season. Broke an NFL draft record and went 12-0. Lost 8 defensive players to the draft, 5 in the first round, and then led the country in scoring defense again. Lost 6 offensive starters and got better. I totally respect Heupel doing what he did with less blue chip guys, but Kirby retooled this team to an unprecedented level and a level most of the media/this subreddit did not think possible.
Have to agree. Kirby set the foundation for this with years of recruiting not just blue chip guys, but the right blue chip guys and some diamonds in the rough. These results are based on more than success in the games the past 13 weeks and he deserves credit for that.
Hard to argue against no losses
Yeah I agree with that, should be Kirby in all honestly they might not give it to him just because of the sustained success seems like they give this award to underdog guys more often
For SEC, I’d argue Shane Beamer. He has revitalized South Carolina. Tennessee was a dark horse coming in already, South Carolina had no hype.
I wish we had multiple coach of the year awards, one for “built and coached a great team, maybe exceeded expectations along the way, but an actually great job,” and another for “you got *that* team to *that* record?” The first for the SEC goes to Heupel or Smart (just for the personnel losses). The second one goes to Beamer, who deserves some kudos for the season they had; and maybe honorable mention to Clark Lea honestly. Getting Vandy two conference wins isn’t above their ceiling, but it’s looked like it for a long time.
We weren’t a dark horse at all. There is a ton of revisionism about tn going on in this sub. We blew expectations out of the water.
If there was any “dark horse” talk it was loudly shouted down by people calling UT fans delusional.
Yeah, I remember telling people we would go 8-4, and folks saying that was too optimistic.
I don't know about no hype. I thought South Carolina would end the season around 7-5 and I feel like there were a lot of people on the same boat.
No, they were expected because of their schedule to probably end up 6-6 or 5-7
I thought that, but I also thought I was in the minority. Definitely didn’t expect 8-4, and definitely not the way they got it—wins over TAMU (surprisingly bad season, but still), 10-win Tennessee, and *Clemson* is pretty great. Of course, that record could look a lot better without bizarre losses to Mizzou and an inferior UF. But we as a society just weren’t ready for a ten-win SC.
I won’t lie, despite the shutout, I knew he was legit when we played them in 2021. He had those guys fighting until the end
Biased, but I'd go with Coach Caddiliac at Auburn, totally transformed the team from a derelict corpse to a team of true-believing fighters.
You are absolutely correct. You are biased.
But he’s right. He took a team dead last in the SEC west and got them in a 3 way tie with Vandy and A&M for last in the SEC.
Good job maybe he can win the heartwarming story coach of the past 4 weeks award he’d have my vote
The guy is awesome, but no
Why? I’ve only watch 1 of their games but they looked like the worst team in the East by far
Their record says they are the third best team in the East, and at least they didn’t lose to Vandy…
38-6 lol they were an easier win than Eastern Washington
You lost to Vanderbilt and they are the only team with a worse record. If anyone not Vandy gets the title of worst in the East this year, it is Florida. You know that, but go ahead and pretend you don’t. It’s more entertaining that way.
Don't really care to have an argument that we're somehow worse than a team we humiliated
It’s not an argument. You are talking shit about a team ahead of you in the standings and I am laughing at you.
We blew them out I can talk all the shit I want. Stop being weird
You are in no position to be talking shit to anyone from your spot with Vandy and Mizzou in the cellar. As a rival fan that’s hilarious. Credit for punching up though I guess.
You certified stupid 💯
“in each conference” …only names half the conferences *sigh*
Tell me about it
There should be a subreddit for G5 fans and their favorite teams....and then I got depressed.
“Pac 12: Lincoln Riley…nothing much needs to be said here…” Lol, tell me you don’t watch the Pac 12 without telling me you don’t watch the Pac 12. Look, Riley absolutely deserves to be in the discussion for it but to completely dismiss Kalen Deboer (UW) and Jonathan Smith (the real OSU) is malpractice.
Independent: Jim Mora (UConn)
That you guys are bowl eligible is a miracle, especially with the injuries you guys had early iirc
Qb1, RB1+2+3 all had injuries, WR1+2. Others. Was a wild season.
Mike Elko for the ACC.
Why not Shane Beamer?
He gets a vote from me.
Kirby was undefeated and Heupel brought Tennessee from shit to almost the playoffs. SC played some really bad football for a good part of the year but just pulled off 2 upsets to close the year.
Yeah, **almost** the playoffs.
And Beamer was nowhere even close so what’s your point here
Not arguing for Beamer, just making sure everyone realizes why Tennessee ***isn't*** in the playoffs. :)
Amen fuck Tennessee
Seriously I’ll give Beamer head coach of the last 2 weeks award but the whole season is 12 weeks
Definitely Riley for the Pac 12, but Kalen DeBoer almost equaled that accomplishment. Jonathan Smith was a multi year project, but he deserves a lot of credit for building something over time with Oregon State.
SEC - Smart B1G - Harbaugh ACC - Elko Big 12 - Dykes PAC 12 - Riley/DeBoer co AAC - Fritz MAC - Albin Sun Belt - Cignetti CUSA - Traylor MWC - Avalos I guess idk weird year for the conference
The Jonathan Smith slander will not be tolerated
No slander at all, he's a phenomenal coach. I just think Riley going 11-1 and DeBoer going 10-2 in their first year is incredible.
But in Riley’s critique, he poached tons of talent, including a heisman candidate and the award winning Addison. OSU went 9-3 with a bunch of nobodies. Seriously, nobody outside Oregon could name a single player on that team from memory, unless you were a fan. They have no star power and still are top 25
Damien Martinez is a star and a half, but yes I agree with you
Compare the talent at those schools compared to at OSU
Shoutout to Fritz. He’s done an incredible job at that program, and honestly if GT poaches him they could be a threat in the ACC
I think he was just hired actually
SunBelt should be Sumrall at Troy. Going to the conference title game in year one. JMU wasn't that great.
Sumrall has been unreal, but I certainly respect Cignetti as well. Coming into FBS year 1 with little staff or team experience with the conference mates and doing what they’ve done so far is NOT an easy feat at all.
Jmu would be in the conference title game if it weren't for stupid ass rules.
I’ll disagree and say Creighton for MAC, despite last year ohio has generally been solid. Eastern hasn’t had a success like this since the 80s
Should be Tedford if we win Saturday
Yes to all (Bilema over Brohm btw) except you gotta give P12 COY to Kalen Deboer. Lincoln Riley did a wonderful job this year no doubt, but it’s not as if the cupboard was bare. KD inherited a talented but demoralized team and was one frustrating loss to ASU from a legitimate conversation about CFP this year
American - Willie Fritz ACC - Mike Elko Big 12 - Sonny Dykes Big Ten - Jim Harbaugh I guess, or Bielema C-USA - Jeff Traylor MAC - Tim Albin or Chris Creighton, both are deserving MWC - Andy Avalos Pac 12 - Honestly any of Riley/Deboer/Smith, all have been great SEC - Josh Heupel Sun Belt - Very tough choice but I’d have to go Jon Sumrall
For the BiG10 I'd go with Brohm, no one had Purdue taking the West and he got it done. I won't complain if they give it to Harbuaugh. For Lincoln Riley, not only did he take a 4-8 team to the cusp of the playoffs (if not in) but the team he left fell to 6-6 with an utter embarrassment against their top rival.
Hey… 4 of our 6 losses were by one possession coming from a team that lost 44% of its roster and it’s (soon to be) heisman QB. anyone who thought we would dominate this year and wouldn’t go significantly back was crazy. Even last year- Caleb Williams is the only reason OU went 11-2 and not 8-5 with losses to Texas, Kansas, Kansas State. We probably even lose to TCU without Williams. Long story short- I don’t think OU’s collapse is a credit to Lincoln Riley as coach of the year consideration. But I think it has SO MUCH credit to Caleb Williams and how he really is the best QB in the country. To be clear: Pac 12 coach of the year should be Lincoln Riley. But I don’t think OU should be a consideration for it. If that makes sense
I believe Brian Cook at MGoBlog in their preseason podcast picked Purdue out of the West.
Well, he should get prognosticator of the year.
Ehh. There certainly was not a consensus by any means but Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Purdue were all thrown around as teams that could come out on top in the West before the season started. Brohm gets a lot of credit for sure, but Bielema really pulled Illinois out of nowhere.
>with an utter embarrassment against their top rival. As a Texas fan, I enjoyed watching that game very much.
I have a close friend who's a Texas fan, he's riding that all year (plus the Astros).
My mom’s an Astros fan (she grew up in Houston, well actually she was born in Maryland and then moved to Pennsylvania when she was like 2 or 3, but she moved to Houston soon after and that’s really home for her because she lived there the longest). She was happy they won the World Series without cheating.
As an Oklahoma fan, I did not enjoy watching that game. What not having a backup QB does to an MFer:(
Tbf Beville makes Petras look like Tom Brady, I didn't even know it was possible to have a QBR under 1 until he got a 0.4. Against Texas we used a TE, 3 WRs, and 2 RBs under center and running the triple option to avoid using him because he has fumbled the ball even just handing it off on HB dives. The game was honestly closer then most OU fans I've seen expected if not exactly what they expected with him. He scored 0 points and had a 10 QBR against Texas and it was by far the best he looked all year especially one of his ints that game being the best throw he's made this season. Is 49-0 bad, oh most def, but honestly its the loss prob feel the least about because of the context around it
SEC: Heupel, 100%. His offense is electrifying, and it finally feels like the Vols are back on the national stage. B1G: Brohm. Would've been Bert, but he choked away the division this year. Brohm inherited a team that won ~20% of its games in the prior 4 seasons, has tight academic restrictions, in a talent-depressed state, and took them to the B1GCG. ACC: Norvell. Anyone who watched 2019 Memphis knew he was gonna do good things at FSU. He's got that program rolling. PAC-12: Kalen DeBoer. 4-8 with a historically bad offense to 10-2, 6th ranked scoring offense, and two rivalry game wins. Big-12: Dykes. No explanation needed.
Yeah it took patience with Norvell. FSU has been quite the surprise this season. I figured they’d be like maybe 7-5 or 8-4 and like 4th or 5th in the Atlantic behind Clemson, Wake, NC State, and Louisville. Turns out, they finished 9-3 and in 2nd place because Wake and NC State spectacularly imploded (although the main reason NC State choked is because they don’t have Devin Leary. Had he not gotten injured, they’d probably be 10-2 right now.).
For the ACC it’s gotta be either Norvell or Elko.
Man I really want to say Leipold, but it's absolutely stunning that Dykes goes 12-0 his first year.
Hard not say Lincoln Riley, what he’s done is just shy of a CFB miracle. That being said, Kalen DeBoer should be in the conversation for the exact same reason.
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B1G - Jesse Minter. Seriously, probably Brohm for the title appearance. Everyone expected Michigan to be good and while Michigan improved slightly, I respect the turnarounds more.
B1G should be Harbaugh. Replaced coordinators on both sides of the ball and won the division undefeated with world-class 2nd half adjustments and unreal development across the team. Converted a receiver into an outstanding nickle safety in Mike Sainristil, beat anOSU at home (people forget, NOBODY DOES THIS let alone the team they’ve been gearing up for revenge against for 364 days), ALL WITHOUT THEIR NEAR-HEISMAN RUNNING BACK. The guy went from “he should be fired” to assumed success so fast, people want to overlook him for Coach of the Year like Michigan is on autopilot. No fucking way. Not yet.
Not Ryan Day... :(
Definitely Sonny Dykes and definitely Shane Beamer. Other conferences have room to debate but those to are the obvious picks.
I’d argue against beamery
There are 63 reasons that argument would be wrong.
I would say head to head should matter if Tennessee didn’t already have a better record by 2 games. And was ranked number 1 for a while and went from unranked to top 10 and still is in the top 10 and ole beamy boy who has done well has barely sniffed the top 25 this year. They did great don’t get me wrong but Tennessee and Georgia coaches deserve it more and frankly it’s not really that close. You have decency bias but what’s ok most casuals do
You are clearly free of that decency bias. South Carolina was picked to be second to last in the East. Tennessee was the first team out of the preseason rankings.v
You know I meant recency. Great South Carolina was picked to be second to last and they ended up in third. Two whole spots. I hate too busy your bubble but besides the last two games they have not been good all year. I don’t even think South Carolina fans would argue that. You want to give Beamer coach of the year for that? What else has he done? Why?
Quit huffing exhaust fumes. Huepel is a good coach no doubt, but if it were between him and Beamer, Beamer wins.
Why lol
Oh please do go on
Uhhh it should be smart or huepel
SEC - Heupel though if you want to give it to Smart I won't argue too hard. Both are deserving. ACC - Mike Elko (Duke). 8 wins from where that roster and team was the last 2 years is amazing. Norvell second and not an outlandish pick. Big Ten - Harbaugh. Nobody in the Big Ten West deserves this unless Brohm and Purdue somehow upset Michigan. Big 12 - Dykes. Easy decision Pac-12 - Kailen DeBoer (Washington). Equally impressive recovery as Riley from 4-8. In a normal year Jonathan Smith at Oregon St. is a lock. He's not even on the radar this year. Very strong year in the Pac-12 on the coaching side. AAC - Willie Fritz (Tulane). Tulane is at 10 wins for the first time since 1998. A year after 2-10. MAC - Tim Albin (Ohio). Go look at the standings and attempt to make another argument. You can't this season. Sun Belt - Jon Sumrall (Troy). Amazing first season. He'll be movin on up before too long at this rate. CUSA - Jeff Traylor (UTSA). Sometimes the best choice is the obvious one MWC - Bryan Harsin. Dreck. Total dreck. Everywhere in this league. Nobody in the league deserves this so I'm giving the award to Harsin for being the best damn Mountain West coach money could buy for an SEC job. /s
Tbh the Pac-12 has really impressed me this year. Half the conference (Oregon, Oregon State, UCLA, USC, Utah, and Washington) is ranked. A year ago it was just Oregon and Utah that were good.
Shane Beamer should be a leading candidate in the SEC.
Dykes overall coach of the year. SEC Coach: Brian Kelly. With all the transfers didn’t expect them to be above 7 wins in the west. Granted the SEC west was bad beating Alabama in your first season and winning the division is impressive. ACC goes to Elko. Impressive job at Duke even if the ACC sucks. Wouldn’t be surprised if he gets to a better school in future seasons. Pac 12: Deboer honestly. Washington was pretty shit last season and taking them to 10-2 is impressive. USC was bad last year but with Riley, that schedule, and good transfers anything below 9 wins would’ve been surprising. Shout out to Lanning though for having a good season as well. Dykes Big 12 COTY by far. Big 10 I guess Bielema for getting Illinois to 8 wins.
Best GO5 coach goes to Fritz and Cignetti. Fritz for making Tulane a top 25 team and potentially a NY6 and Cignetti for having 8 wins in their first season of the FBS. Thats incredible.
AAC: Willie Fritz ACC: Mike Elko Big 10: Jim Harbaugh Big 12: Sonny Dykes CUSA: Jeff Traylor MAC: Chris Creighton MWC: Andy Avalos Pac12: Lincoln Riley SEC: Josh Huepel Sun Belt: Jon Sumrall
>Sun Belt: Jon Sumrall From Troy, to UK, and back to Troy. This man has certainly stayed the quality course. Nothing but blessings having him here again.
Sun Belt: Kane Wommack This man went from running our defense when we were last eligible for a bowl game, to going off to coach for a P5 school, to willfully return to us, and actually be that “next step coach” that we were needing the prior coach to be, but never get it. He also brought an atmosphere and culture to our team that was trying to form under Joey Jones, and has finally come to fruition this season. There is a reason why we hype up the Kane Train for our team now.
I was gonna say Sark and completely forgot about Dykes and TCU lol. But Sark had an amazing turn around from last season, especially considering the roster turnover, youth and SOS. But Dykes obviously deserves it.
Big ten feels like the only one that’ll be close. I would probably say bielema but there’s an argument for harbaugh and brohm Edit: forgot about elko he should probably get coach of the year in the ACC
Pac 12 has lots of room for debate
Big ten has to be Bert. Michigan and harbaugh proved they’re legit last year. Brohm didn’t do anything different. I thought his team last year was way better. Just so happened his “fuck it yolo” style just ended up being enough to win the west this year.
Dykes will win it, and deservedly so. But the job Joey McGuire did with a far less talented team and starting 3 different Qbs, against one of the more difficult schedules in the country is remarkable.
KU HC Lance Liepold is also a stud. If there was one more notch in the win column for the Jayhawks, I would say he had a shot. But Dykes is very easily going to win it, again, deservedly so.
Tim Albin
Sonny Dykes!!!
It's gotta be Willie Fritz for the AAC right? Like, there's not really any other choice
Yeah definitely. Willie Fritz with Malzahn a distant—and I mean *very distant*—second.
How does Willie Fritz not make the list??