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Miami Herald
02-08-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
2025 Big 12 Head Coach Rankings: Preseason College Football Preview
Just like the entire Big 12 going into the season, trying to figure out which coaches are the best right now - and which are at the bottom of the rankings - was mostly a coin a league loaded with rising teams that could all pull off an Arizona State shocker of last year, and that's partly because each team has a big-time head coach. Whether it's Scott Frost going back to UCF, Rich Rodriguez returning to West Virginia, or all the good coaches who rocked at other places and continue to get up to speed at their Big 12 spots, the league has accomplished are we supposed to rank them going into the season?We'll cut Kyle Whittingham and Mike Gundy some slack after shockingly off years, acknowledge the high-risers, the under-appreciated, and ...We're doing this by feel, past greatness, tenure, upside, everything. Keep in mind that we'll probably change most of this wildly after the year, but going into the 2025 season ... - Predicting every Big 12 game 16 Scott Frost, UCF Career FBS Win %: 47.9 FBS Wins: 35 Winning FBS Seasons: 1 FBS Conference Championships: 1 Total FBS Seasons: 6.5 Average Wins Per Season: 5.38 % Seasons With Winning Record: 15.38% 2024 Preseason Conference Rank: NR Consensus Coach of the Year in 13-0 2017 season at UCF 15 Scott Satterfield, Cincinnati Career FBS Win %: 58.8 FBS Wins: 80 Winning FBS Seasons: 7 FBS Conference Championships: 3 Total FBS Seasons: 11 Average Wins Per Season: 7.27 % Seasons With Winning Record: 63.64% 2024 Preseason Conference Rank: 16 3 straight Sun Belt titles from 2016 to 2018 with App State 14 Brent Brennan, Arizona Career FBS Win %: 40.4 FBS Wins: 38 Winning FBS Seasons: 3 FBS Conference Championships: 2 Total FBS Seasons: 8 Average Wins Per Season: 4.75 % Seasons With Winning Record: 37.50% 2024 Preseason Conference Rank: 7 Won the 2020 Mountain West Championship; took the program to three bowls in last four years 13 Joey McGuire, Texas Tech Career FBS Win %: 59 FBS Wins: 23 Winning FBS Seasons: 2 FBS Conference Championships: 0 Total FBS Seasons: 3 Average Wins Per Season: 7.67 % Seasons With Winning Record: 66.67% 2024 Preseason Conference Rank: 11 Three bowl appearances in first three seasons 12 Dave Aranda, Baylor Career FBS Win %: 50.8FBS Wins: 31Winning FBS Seasons: 2FBS Conference Championships: 1Total FBS Seasons: 5Average Wins Per Season: 6.20% Seasons With Winning Record: 40.00%2024 Preseason Conference Rank: 12Won 2021 Big 12 Championship; three bowls in last four years 11 Willie Fritz, Houston Career FBS Win %: 54.7FBS Wins: 75Winning FBS Seasons: 6FBS Conference Championships: 2Total FBS Seasons: 11Average Wins Per Season: 6.82% Seasons With Winning Record: 54.55%2024 Preseason Conference Rank: 62022 Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year at Tulane; 9th in both final 2022 polls 10 Lance Leipold, Kansas Career FBS Win %: 49.2 FBS Wins: 59 Winning FBS Seasons: 4 FBS Conference Championships: 0 Total FBS Seasons: 10 Average Wins Per Season: 5.90 % Seasons With Winning Record: 40.00% 2024 Preseason Conference Rank: 2 6 Division III National Titles at UW Whitewater 9 Deion Sanders, Colorado Career FBS Win %: 52 FBS Wins: 13 Winning FBS Seasons: 1 FBS Conference Championships: 0 Total FBS Seasons: 2 Average Wins Per Season: 6.50 % Seasons With Winning Record: 50.00% 2024 Preseason Conference Rank: 15 Three 9+ win seasons in last four years at Jackson State and Colorado 8 Rich Rodriguez, West Virginia Career FBS Win %: 59.9 FBS Wins: 136 Winning FBS Seasons: 15 FBS Conference Championships: 5 Total FBS Seasons: 19 Average Wins Per Season: 7.16 % Seasons With Winning Record: 78.95% 2024 Preseason Conference Rank: 3* (in CUSA) 32-5 in last three seasons at West Virginia and won 57 games in his final six years 7 Chris Klieman, Kansas State Career FBS Win %: 63.2 FBS Wins: 48 Winning FBS Seasons: 5 FBS Conference Championships: 1 Total FBS Seasons: 6 Average Wins Per Season: 8.00 % Seasons With Winning Record: 83.33% 2024 Preseason Conference Rank: 4 4 national titles in 5 years at North Dakota State 6 Kalani Sitake, BYU Career FBS Win %: 62.6 FBS Wins: 72 Winning FBS Seasons: 7 FBS Conference Championships: 0 Total FBS Seasons: 9 Average Wins Per Season: 8.00 % Seasons With Winning Record: 77.78% 2024 Preseason Conference Rank: 13 Three double-digit win seasons in the last five years 5 Sonny Dykes, TCU Career FBS Win %: 56.3 FBS Wins: 98 Winning FBS Seasons: 8 FBS Conference Championships: 1 Total FBS Seasons: 14 Average Wins Per Season: 7.00 % Seasons With Winning Record: 57.14% 2024 Preseason Conference Rank: 10 2022 Coach of the Year taking TCU to a national championship appearance 4 Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State Career FBS Win %: 65.8 FBS Wins: 169 Winning FBS Seasons: 18 FBS Conference Championships: 0 Total FBS Seasons: 20 Average Wins Per Season: 8.45 % Seasons With Winning Record: 90.00% 2024 Preseason Conference Rank: 3 18 straight winning seasons before last year; second-longest tenured current coach at one school 3 Matt Campbell, Iowa State Career FBS Win %: 60 FBS Wins: 99 Winning FBS Seasons: 11 FBS Conference Championships: 0 Total FBS Seasons: 13 Average Wins Per Season: 7.62 % Seasons With Winning Record: 84.62% 2024 Preseason Conference Rank: 5 AP Coach of the Year 2017 & 2020 2 Kenny Dillingham, Arizona State Career FBS Win %: 56 FBS Wins: 14 Winning FBS Seasons: 1 FBS Conference Championships: 1 Total FBS Seasons: 2 Average Wins Per Season: 7.00 % Seasons With Winning Record: 50.00% 2024 Preseason Conference Rank: 14 Big 12 Coach of the Year taking ASU to the Big 12 title and CFP 1 Kyle Whittingham, Utah Career FBS Win %: 66 FBS Wins: 167 Winning FBS Seasons: 17 FBS Conference Championships: 3 Total FBS Seasons: 20 Average Wins Per Season: 8.35 % Seasons With Winning Record: 85.00% 2024 Preseason Conference Rank: 1 Ten straight winning seasons before last year; third-longest tenured current coach at one school - Every Big 12 Team's 2025 Preview © 2025 The Arena Group Holdings, Inc. 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Miami Herald
01-08-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
2025 ACC Head Coach Rankings: Preseason College Football Preview
How good do all the ACC head coaches appear to be going into the 2025 football season?Out of the 17, here's our ranking from the bottom up. What's the criteria? We're hardly going full-on analytical, going mostly by resume, wins, history, and ... feel. For the most part, the brand new coaches with no college head coaching experience get dinged in our rankings, but there's one obvious, notable exception when it comes to the which coaches have the right combination of experience and upside going into the 2025 season? Who do you want running your team? (And remember, this will change in a big way at the end of the year.)- Preseason Previews for Every ACC Team 17 Frank Reich, Stanford Career FBS Win %: 0 FBS Wins: 0 Winning FBS Seasons: 0 FBS Conference Championships: 0 Total FBS Seasons: 0 Average Wins Per Season: 0.00 % Seasons With Winning Record: 0.00% NFL head coach at Indianapolis for five years and one season with Carolina 16 Tony Elliott, Virginia Career FBS Win %: 32.4 FBS Wins: 11 Winning FBS Seasons: 0 FBS Conference Championships: 0 Total FBS Seasons: 3 Average Wins Per Season: 3.67 % Seasons With Winning Record: 0.00% Guided Virginia through unspeakable tragedy in the 2022 season 15 Brent Pry, Virginia Tech Career FBS Win %: 43.2 FBS Wins: 16 Winning FBS Seasons: 1 FBS Conference Championships: 0 Total FBS Seasons: 3 Average Wins Per Season: 5.33 % Seasons With Winning Record: 33.33% In 2024 season, led Virginia Tech to first bowl win since 2016 14 Jake Dickert, Wake Forest Career FBS Win %: 53.5 FBS Wins: 23 Winning FBS Seasons: 2 FBS Conference Championships: 0 Total FBS Seasons: 3.5 Average Wins Per Season: 6.57 % Seasons With Winning Record: 57.14% 2024 Washington State team started 8-1 13 Justin Wilcox, Cal Career FBS Win %: 45.7FBS Wins: 42Winning FBS Seasons: 2FBS Conference Championships: 0Total FBS Seasons: 8Average Wins Per Season: 5.25% Seasons With Winning Record: 25.00%Took Cal to bowls in 4 of last 7 seasons 12 Pat Narduzzi, Pitt Career FBS Win %: 56.3 FBS Wins: 72 Winning FBS Seasons: 7 FBS Conference Championships: 1 Total FBS Seasons: 10 Average Wins Per Season: 7.20 % Seasons With Winning Record: 70.00% Won 2021 ACC Championship 11 Brent Key, Georgia Tech Career FBS Win %: 52.9 FBS Wins: 18 Winning FBS Seasons: 2 FBS Conference Championships: 0 Total FBS Seasons: 2.5 Average Wins Per Season: 7.20 % Seasons With Winning Record: 80.00% Three winning ACC seasons in three years 10 Fran Brown, Syracuse Career FBS Win %: 76.9 FBS Wins: 10 Winning FBS Seasons: 1 FBS Conference Championships: 0 Total FBS Seasons: 1 Average Wins Per Season: 10.00 % Seasons With Winning Record: 100.00% FWAA 2024 Coach of the Year 9 Manny Diaz, Duke Career FBS Win %: 61.2 FBS Wins: 30 Winning FBS Seasons: 3 FBS Conference Championships: 0 Total FBS Seasons: 4 Average Wins Per Season: 7.50 % Seasons With Winning Record: 75.00% No losing ACC seasons in four years with Miami and Duke 8 Bill O'Brien, Boston College Career FBS Win %: 59.5 FBS Wins: 22 Winning FBS Seasons: 3 FBS Conference Championships: 0 Total FBS Seasons: 3 Average Wins Per Season: 7.33 % Seasons With Winning Record: 100.00% Stepped in as the first Penn State head coach after Joe Paterno 7 Mike Norvell, Florida State Career FBS Win %: 62.8 FBS Wins: 71 Winning FBS Seasons: 6 FBS Conference Championships: 2 Total FBS Seasons: 9 Average Wins Per Season: 7.89 % Seasons With Winning Record: 66.67% 2023 Bear Bryant & Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year 6 Dave Doeren , NC State Career FBS Win %: 61.5FBS Wins: 110Winning FBS Seasons: 11FBS Conference Championships: 2Total FBS Seasons: 14Average Wins Per Season: 7.86% Seasons With Winning Record: 78.57%2 MAC titles and 23-4 run at Northern Illinois 5 Mario Cristobal, Miami Career FBS Win %: 52.5 FBS Wins: 84 Winning FBS Seasons: 8 FBS Conference Championships: 3 Total FBS Seasons: 13 Average Wins Per Season: 6.46 % Seasons With Winning Record: 61.54% Won 2 Pac-12 titles at Oregon, 1 Sun Belt title at FIU 4 Bill Belichick, North Carolina Career FBS Win %: 0 FBS Wins: 0 Winning FBS Seasons: 0 FBS Conference Championships: 0 Total FBS Seasons: 0 Average Wins Per Season: 0.00 % Seasons With Winning Record: 0.00% Six-time Super Bowl champion head coach 3 Rhett Lashlee, SMU Career FBS Win %: 69 FBS Wins: 29 Winning FBS Seasons: 3 FBS Conference Championships: 1 Total FBS Seasons: 3 Average Wins Per Season: 9.67 % Seasons With Winning Record: 100.00% One AAC Championship win and one ACC Championship appearance, along with a CFP trip, in three years 2 Jeff Brohm, Louisville Career FBS Win %: 62 FBS Wins: 85 Winning FBS Seasons: 8 FBS Conference Championships: 2 Total FBS Seasons: 11 Average Wins Per Season: 7.73 % Seasons With Winning Record: 72.73% Coached 3 teams to conference title appearances. 2 CUSA titles at WKU 1 Dabo Swinney, Clemson Career FBS Win %: 79.3 FBS Wins: 180 Winning FBS Seasons: 15.5 FBS Conference Championships: 9 Total FBS Seasons: 16.5 Average Wins Per Season: 10.91 % Seasons With Winning Record: 93.94% 9 ACC Championships, 2 national titles, 5 CFP title appearances- Predictions for every ACC game © 2025 The Arena Group Holdings, Inc. 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Yahoo
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rodrigo Blankenship, Jayden Price
Bryce Perkins, Olive Sagapolu-Failauga | 4th and 12 The XFL and USFL Conference Championships are coming up. Jess Nevarez talks with DC Defenders defensive coordinator Blake Williams about his return to the game. Then Jeff Kolb sits down with Houston Roughnecks' Olive Demitre Sagapolu-Failauga about growing up on an island and chick flicks, and Michigan Panthers quarterback Bryce Perkins talks about returning from a double neck fracture. 22:45 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Buffalo Bills 2025 schedule: Dates, times, opponents, TV channel for every game
If you buy something through a link in this article, we may earn commission. Pricing and availability subject to change. The Buffalo Bills will open their final season at Highmark Stadium in prime time, and close it out with a full-circle moment. Buffalo's 2025 regular season schedule has been announced, and it begins with a Sunday Night Football matchup against the Baltimore Ravens in Week 1, the first of five prime-time games on the slate. Advertisement Buffalo will host the New York Jets in Week 18 in what's expected to be the last regular-season game ever at Highmark Stadium. The Jets were also the opponent for the first regular-season game at the venue in 1973, when it opened as Rich Stadium. The Bills will face three new head coaches in the first five weeks of the season. Buffalo Bills 2025 schedule Preseason: Week 1: Saturday, Aug. 9 at New York Giants, 1 p.m. Week 2: Sunday, Aug. 17 at Chicago Bears, 8 p.m., FOX Week 3: Saturday, Aug. 23 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 7:30 p.m Time and date to be determined Regular season: Week 1: Sunday, Sept. 7 vs. Baltimore Ravens, 8:20 p.m., NBC Week 2: Sunday, Sept. 14 at New York Jets, 1 p.m., CBS Week 3: Thursday, Sept. 18 vs. Miami Dolphins, 8:15 p.m., Amazon Prime Video Week 4: Sunday, Sept. 28 vs. New Orleans Saints, 1 p.m., CBS Week 5: Sunday, Oct. 5 vs. New England Patriots, 8:20 p.m., NBC Week 6: Monday, Oct. 13 at Atlanta Falcons, 7:15 p.m., ESPN Week 7: Bye Week 8: Sunday, Oct. 26 at Carolina Panthers, 1 p.m., FOX Week 9: Sunday, Nov. 2 vs. Kansas City Chiefs, 4:25 p.m., CBS Week 10: Sunday, Nov. 9 at Miami Dolphins, 1 p.m., CBS Week 11: Sunday, Nov. 16 vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 1 p.m., CBS Week 12: Thursday, Nov. 20 at Houston Texans, 8:15 p.m., Amazon Prime Video Week 13: Sunday, Nov. 30 at Pittsburgh Steelers, 4:25 p.m., CBS Week 14: Sunday, Dec. 7: vs. Cincinnati Bengals, 4:25 p.m., FOX Week 15: Sunday, Dec. 14 at New England Patriots, 1 p.m., CBS Week 16: Sunday, Dec. 21 at Cleveland Browns, 1 p.m., CBS Week 17: Sunday, Dec. 28 vs. Philadelphia Eagles, 4:25 p.m., FOX Week 18: Jan. 3-4, vs. New York Jets, TBD Playoffs Wild-Card Round: Jan. 10-12 Divisional Round: Jan. 17-18 Conference Championships: Jan. 25 Super Bowl: Feb. 8, Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, California Buffalo Bills tickets Tickets are on sale through on the Bills Ticketmaster page or through the Bills website. SeatGeek and Sports Illustrated Tickets are also official league ticket partners of the NFL Ticket Network. This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Buffalo Bills 2025 schedule: Dates, times opponents, TV for season
Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Buffalo Bills preseason game to air nationally on FOX in primetime
Add another nationally televised game to the Buffalo Bills' 2025 schedule. The NFL announced its preseason broadcast slate Wednesday, and the Bills' Week 2 road game against the Chicago Bears will air in primetime on FOX. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 17 at Soldier Field. Advertisement It marks the third straight year with a preseason meeting between the two teams, and second consecutive with HBO's Hard Knocks cameras rolling. Chicago, the 2024 Hard Knocks feature team, defeated Buffalo 33–6 last year in the preseason opener. This year, the spotlight shifts to Orchard Park. The Bills are set to be the featured franchise on Hard Knocks in 2025. Buffalo has five primetime games on its regular season schedule: one Thursday Night Football matchup, plus two each on Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football. Four of Buffalo's five primetime regular season games are in the first six weeks, so including the preseason game, the Bills will be on primetime five times in an eight-game span. Buffalo Bills 2025 schedule Week 1: Saturday, Aug. 9 at New York Giants, 1 p.m. Week 2: Sunday, Aug. 17 at Chicago Bears, 8 p.m., FOX Week 3: Saturday, Aug. 23 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 7:30 p.m Advertisement Regular season: Playoffs Wild-Card Round: Jan. 10-12 Divisional Round: Jan. 17-18 Conference Championships: Jan. 25 Super Bowl: Feb. 8, Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, California This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Bills vs. Bears Week 2 preseason game set for national TV on FOX
