Kyle Whittingham Cracks Top 20 List Of Best Power-5 Head Coaches
May 8, 2021, 4:29 PM
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(Photo by Gene Sweeney Jr/Getty Images)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – University of Utah head football coach Kyle Whittingham cracked the top 20 list of best Power-5 head coaches in the country.
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Kyle Whittingham came in at No. 16 on the list and is the second-highest ranked Pac-12 coach, trailing Oregon’s Mario Cristobal, who is No. 14.
The list comes from “Big Game Boomer” who is a Oklahoma alum and a “college football rankings guru.”
Top 50 College Head Coaches Entering The 2021 Season
Power 5 pic.twitter.com/asiVt53CqI
— Big Game Boomer (@BigGameBoomer) May 6, 2021
The list features the top 50 coaches in the power-5 ranks. Seven of the Pac-12 coaches made the list, including Cristobal (No. 14), Whittingham (No. 16), ASU’s Herm Edwards (No. 18), Stanford’s David Shaw (No. 23), Washington’s Jimmy Lake (No. 33), USC’s Clay Helton (No. 36) and UCLA’s Chip Kelly (No. 40).
Washington State’s Nick Rolovich, California’s Justin Wilcox, Arizona’s Jedd Fisch, Colorado’s Karl Dorrell and Oregon State’s Jonathan Smith did not make the list.
Here is the full list from Big Game Boomer:
- Nick Saban, Alabama
- Dabo Swinney, Clemson
- Ryan Day, Ohio State
- Lincoln Riley, Oklahoma
- Brian Kelly, Notre Dame
- Mack Brown, North Carolina
- Matt Campbell, Iowa State
- Pat Fitzgerald, Northwestern
- Jimbo Fisher, Texas A&M
- Lane Kiffin, Ole Miss
- Gary Patterson, TCU
- Kirby Smart, Georgia
- Ed Orgeron, LSU
- Mario Cristobal, Oregon
- James Franklin, Penn State
- Kyle Whittingham, Utah
- Dan Mullen, Florida
- Herm Edwards, Arizona State
- Tom Allen, Indiana
- Bryan Harsin, Auburn
- Paul Chryst, Wisconsin
- Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State
- David Shaw, Stanford
- Mark Stoops, Kentucky
- Kirk Ferentz, Iowa
- Steve Sarkisian, Texas
- Greg Schiano, Rutgers
- Eliah Drinkwitz, Missouri
- Shane Beamer, South Carolina
- Chris Klieman, Kansas State
- David Cutcliffe, Duke
- P.J. Fleck, Minnesota
- Jimmy Lake, Washington
- Manny Diaz, Miami (FL)
- Sam Pittman, Arkansas
- Clay Helton, USC
- Neal Brown, West Virginia
- Bret Bielema, Illinos
- Dave Clawson, Wake Forest
- Chip Kelly, UCLA
- Dave Aranda, Baylor
- Pat Narduzzi, Pittsburgh
- Josh Heupel, Tennessee
- Mike Locksley, Maryland
- Bronco Mendenhall, Virginia
- Jeff Brohm, Purdue
- Mike Norvell, Florida State
- Mike Leach, Mississippi State
- Geoff Collins, Georgia Tech
- Scott Frost, Nebraska
Big Boomer also made a list of the top 50 Group of Five coaches in the country. BYU head coach Kalani Sitake came in at No. 6 and first year Utah State head coach Blake Anderson is No. 33 on the list.
Top 50 College Head Coaches Entering The 2021 Season
Group Of 5 – @CoachFick Takes The Top Spot pic.twitter.com/VDWosd2GVT
— Big Game Boomer (@BigGameBoomer) May 6, 2021
Trevor Allen is a Utah Utes Insider for KSLSports.com and host of the Crimson Corner podcast. Follow him on Twitter: @TrevorASports. You can download and listen to the podcast, here.
