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Picking college football’s best head coaching jobs by conference

By John Scimeca

Mario Cristobal, Oregon football (Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images)
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Let’s face it: there’s no better ACC head coaching gig than Clemson. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
Let’s face it: there’s no better ACC head coaching gig than Clemson. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) /

ACC: Clemson

There’s the dysfunction at Florida State. There’s the potential and the prestige of “The U” at Miami (FL). And there are the spunky underdog programs such as Virginia and Louisville. Even Virginia Tech overachieves and normally does more with less.

But the best head coaching job in the ACC? You’d be joking to not hand this prize to Clemson. In 2010, during Dabo Swinney’s second full season at the helm, you might look differently at this distinction being given to a Tigers team that finished 6-7 behind the likes of Maryland and NC State in the standings.

But that was a decade ago. Swinney has transformed the Tigers into college football’s preeminent blue blood, a national powerhouse whose status is only consistently challenged only by Alabama. Swinney is the nation’s highest-paid coach at $9.3 million annually, and he earned that designation by building Clemson from the ground up. Clemson has sky-high expectations because of Swinney’s winning habits.

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