Ranking all of the College Football Coaching Hires This Offseason

Dec 6, 2014; Gainesville, FL, USA; Florida Gators head coach Jim McElwain is introduced as head coach during a press conference at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports

There will be 15 schools with new head coaches this fall. Here is how the college football coaching hires from this offseason stack up against each other.

The coaching carousel this offseason has brought in lots of new, interesting faces to schools. And with 15 new hires, four powerhouse programs all had to find new coaches as well.

As usual with coaching changes, there were a few obvious hires, a few interesting ones, and a few that make you scratch your head.

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And of course, there is often the obvious one or two home runs. We will get to that later.

There were seven schools from Power Five conferences that hired new coaches and eight from the Group of Five. But don’t think that the Power Five schools all found better coaches. There were quite a few Group of Five schools that made headlines with solid hires, and there were also Power Five schools who made very questionable decisions.

So how do the 15 new coaches compare to each other? What were the best hires. As we get set to rank them, know that we could be dead wrong. You never really know until two to three years in which hires were the best.

But anybody can judge in hindsight. These hires are ranked based on the evidence we have on these coaches right now.

Here are all of the college football coaching hires from this offseason ranked against each other.

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