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5 days ago
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🚨 Rayados officially unveil their new manager
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here. The Monterrey Striped Ones presented with great fanfare the new manager of the club. It's Domenec Torrent who arrives with a single goal: to win championships. The Striped Ones have the Club World Cup just around the corner, where they will face Inter and River Plate in the first phase. The coach will have little time to work but knows the demands they face. The latest strategists have not given results in Monterrey, will the Spaniard be able to shine with the Striped Ones? 📸 JULIO CESAR AGUILAR - AFP or licensors
Washington Post
6 days ago
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- Washington Post
As NFL players eye the Olympics, flag football veterans just want a chance
Darrell Doucette III is probably the best flag football player in the world. He quarterbacked the U.S. national team to the past four global championships and won every international game he played. Now 35, he has played flag — never tackle — since he was 8 years old. He stands 5-foot-7 and 140 pounds, but as he once said, flag football makes quarterback a 'size-less position.'
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YAIAA athletes pick up 8 gold medals on final day of District 3 track and field meet
What a closing day at the District 3 track and field championships. The storms that forced a suspension of competition on Friday, cleared and created a sparkling day for some bonus events. Yes the breeze was a bit brisk at times and created some wind-aided results, but it also helped to cool things off. And with the 3200 and 1600 being run in the same day, some coaches had to do some shuffling in relay events to keep fresh legs on the teams. Advertisement Some events probably didn't end the way athletes were hoping, while others ended in ways they only saw in their dreams. 2 golds, silver for Bahn Spring Grove junior Ella Bahn hasn't focused much on the high jump this season. Even though she was the two-time defending District 3 and PIAA Class 3A champ, she spent much of the regular season trying out other events. The junior was seeded 11th at 5-2, but fared much better. 'It was definitely an off day,' Bahn said of clearing 5-4 to win silver. 'But for the training that I put in this season, I think it's about what I would expect. Probably better than I would expect. It would have been awesome, obviously, to get the win there too, but I'm alright without it.' Advertisement Bahn is used to juggling high jump duties with running the 300 hurdle prelims. But both were caught in Friday's storms and changed under the adjusted schedule. High jump was held as soon as the meet began, but the 300 hurdles were held as timed finals in the afternoon. Instead, Bahn was warming up outside the high jump ropes for the 100 hurdle finals. They started the call for the 100 hurdles when the high jump bar was moved to 5-5 for the three remaining athletes. She got her hurdling shoes out in between her second and third attempts. When she secured the silver they were calling her name to report to the starting area. Less than five minutes later she had won her third straight district 100 hurdle title. This year it was in 14.16. Advertisement 'I was warming up while I was down there [at high jump], but I'm used to doing that,' Bahn said. 'I just usually do it for the 300, but today I had to warm up for the 100.' She added the 300 hurdle title to her haul a few hours later. Bahn pocketed the eighth District 3 gold of her career in 42.75, more than 1.5 seconds ahead of the runner up. New Oxford's Brayden Billman competes in the 3A long jump at the PIAA District 3 Track and Field Championships at Shippensburg University's Seth Grove Stadium Saturday, May 17, 2025. Jumping for gold New Oxford junior Brayden Billman came in as the top seed in the Class 3A triple jump and third seed in the long jump. He left Seth Grove Stadium with a pair of gold medals. Billman popped a 24-2 on his third attempt to win the long jump, well above his seed jump of 23-5.25. He followed a few hours later with 47-10.25 to hit his triple jump seed distance and win the title by almost a foot. Advertisement That winning triple jump came immediately after a foul. 'I felt it going, and I got the motor going,' Billman said of his first jump. 'I felt good, but just a little inch over.' But as good as it felt to wipe away that foul with a gold medal jump, Billman said the long jump effort was more satisfying. 'That one jump I hit, it was like, yeah, that's pretty far,' he said. He feeds on the energy of the crowd. When he gets them to clap, he said the adrenaline rush hits. 'It just makes me go faster and faster, and then helps me to pop off longer and longer,' Billman said. Bermudian Springs' Lily Carlson clears 14 feet in the 3A pole vault competition at the PIAA District 3 Track and Field Championships at Shippensburg University's Seth Grove Stadium Saturday, May 17, 2025. New class, no problem Bermudian Springs senior Lily Carlson was looking forward to the challenge of competing in Class 3A. After winning a pair of District 3 and PIAA Class 2A pole vault titles, she wanted to up her game. Advertisement Consider it upped. She warmed up for the pole vault by taking seventh place in the 100 hurdles. Then she sat around while her opponents, who are really friends from her training facility, moved the bar higher into her comfort zone. She took her first attempt with the four remaining vaulters at 12-6, but hit the bar. She cleared easily on the next try after her coaches yelled for her to change poles before her second attempt. 'The pole got really tiny,' Carlson said. 'It just didn't give me any pop. So, it was a good call from the coaches to have me go and switch poles.' She had the title won when she cleared the bar at 13-0, but she set her sights on something else. Carlson wanted a matched set of district records. And she wanted to clear 14-0 before the state meet. Advertisement She got both. She added the Class 3A record to her 2A mark when she cleared 13-9. She earned the top seed in the PIAA meet when she hit 14-0 for the first time in competition. '14 was a huge goal of mine,' Carlson said. 'It feels really good to finally clear that. It means a lot.' Hanover's Miley Heath laughs with one of her coaches after winning the 2A shot put competition at the PIAA District 3 Track and Field Championships at Shippensburg University's Seth Grove Stadium Saturday, May 17, 2025. Drought is over Miley Heath came into the Class 2A girls shot put competition as the fourth seed based on her 34-11 throw. She was already chasing something better than that after the first round of throws when Millersburg's Reagan Wentzel hit 35-0.5. The Hanover senior sat in second place after that round and didn't come close to Wentzel until her fifth attempt. Then she popped the big one. Advertisement 'I started meditating recently, it's been my thing to get my head clear,' Heath said. 'So I sat out there and I was just like, 'I got this.'' And she did. She hit 35-1.5 to inch ahead of Wentzel. When that throw held up, Heath gave Hanover its first District 3 girls track and field champion since Morgan Herrick won the high jump title in 2012. 'I wasn't really thinking of PR-ing,' Heath said. 'I just wanted to throw it around and hopefully place. I went out and did it.' Jump wasn't so little Littlestown junior Zander Spillan made it an Adams County sweep of the district boys long jump titles. When he added more than 8 inches to his previous best on his last jump, he joined New Oxford's Brayden Billman in the long jump winners' circle. Advertisement 'I knew it was good as soon as I jumped,' Spillan said. 'I just knew it.' Spillan said he didn't notice any help from the wind while he was jumping. Unlike earlier in the day when it was blowing into the jumpers' back on their approach, he felt it more to the side. 'I could feel it blowing, but since it was coming from the side, it didn't really help,' he said. 'But I don't think it really hurt too much either. So that was good.' Littlestown's Benedicte Parker competes in the 2A long jump at the PIAA District 3 Track and Field Championships at Shippensburg University's Seth Grove Stadium Saturday, May 17, 2025. District 3 nuggets You can tell if Bahn is running in prelims or finals based on her socks. If she is wearing tie-dyed, or sharks this year, then she's running prelims. If her socks sport pineapples, she's running finals. Littlestown silver medalist Benedicte Parker doesn't know why she suddenly went from jumping in the 14-15 range to her personal best 17-0 in the space of a few attempts on Saturday. But she thinks it might have something to do with being told to stop stretching her muscles because the warm temperatures were keeping them loose enough. Carlson's pole vault would have won any of the four competitions this year. Fourteen feet was the winning height in both boys classes. Injured Bermudian Springs pole vaulter Cameron Henning was reported to be recovering after surgery on Friday night. Records broken by Palmyra's Tyler Burgess (Class 3A boys 110 hurdles) and Kaddel Howard (Class 3A girls 400 meters) were rebroken by the pair in the finals. District 3 track and field 2025: Complete results from Shippensburg University Delone Catholic's Evan Donnelly runs in the 2A 4x800m relay at the PIAA District 3 Track and Field Championships at Shippensburg University's Seth Grove Stadium Saturday, May 17, 2025. YAIAA Day 2 medalists Class 2A Girls 4x800: The Delone Catholic team of Samantha Bealmear, Kathryn McCall, Sophia Kennedy and Kaylie Brown finished in 10:17.50 to place third. The winning time was 9:41.49. Advertisement Boys 4x800: The Delone Catholic team of Ryan Young, Evan Donnelly, Owen Smith and Owen Ignatowski ran 8:43.42 to finish fifth. The winning time was 8:08.55. Boys 110 hurdles: Biglerville freshman Ryan Bungard ran 16.81 to finish fifth. Fairfield junior Michael Fisher was eighth in 20.04. The winning time was 14.96. Boys 100 meters: Delone Catholic sophomore Jonathan Bianchi ran 11.74 to finish eighth. The winning time was 11.11. Boys 4x100: The Delone Catholic team of Max Holz, Nolan Kruse, John Paul Groves and Braden Smith ran 44.00 to finish third. The winning time was 43.66. Girls 800 meters: Delone Catholic junior Samantha Bealmear ran 2:23.84 to finish third behind the winning time of 2:18.61. Advertisement Boys 200 meters: Delone Catholic sophomore Jonathan Bianchi ran 23.55 to finish sixth and Fairfield senior Brock Herb was right behind him at 23.61 to finish seventh. The winning time was 22.67. Boys 4x400: The Fairfield team of Christ Brown, Nathan Davis, Noah Davis and Brock Herb ran 3:26.46 to win the gold medal by more than 4 seconds. Boys triple jump: Littlestown junior Zander Spillan finished third with a jump of 41-9.75. Biglerville senior Landon Anglin finished seventh with 40-0.75. The winning jump was 45-1. Girls shot put: Hanover senior Miley Heath blew through her fourth seed to win the district title with a throw of 35-1.5. Biglerville junior Patience King finished fourth with a best of 33-8 and senior Claire Roberts finished seventh with 32-7.5. Advertisement Boys long jump: Littlestown junior Zander Spillan jumped 20-11 on his attempt to move from third to first. Junior teammate Brody Clabaugh hit 20-1.5 to finish fourth. Boys javelin: Littlestown sophomore Parker Dell hit 147-0 to finish eighth. The winning throw was 180-0. Girls discus: Biglerville senior Haylee Smith hit 109-7 on her fourth attempt to finish fourth. Delone Catholic sophomore Lillian Kane was eighth at 105-11. The winning throw was 143-10. Boys high jump: Bermudian Springs sophomore Zach Ayers cleared 5-7 to finish seventh. The winning jump was 6-5. Boys discus: Littlestown sophomore Parker Dell hit 135-8 on his first throw and couldn't top it to finish fifth. The winning throw was 157-7. Advertisement Girls long jump: Littlestown junior Benedicte Parker popped a 17-0 to finish second. The winning jump was 17-6. Girls javelin: Biglerville senior Haylee Smith hit 116-2 on her fifth attempt to finish fourth behind the winning throw of 129-10. South Western's Elijah Holly races in the 3A 400m run at the PIAA District 3 Track and Field Championships at Shippensburg University's Seth Grove Stadium Saturday, May 17, 2025. Class 3A Girls 4x800: The team of Addison Emenheiser, Leah Navarro, Neila Granger and Natalie Good ran 9:25.81 to finish second behind the winning time of 9:25.43. Girls 100 hurdles: Minutes after winning silver in the high jump, Spring Grove junior Ella Bahn won gold in 14.16. Bermudian Springs senior Lily Carlson finished seventh in 15.79. Boys 110 hurdles: York High senior Robert Salazar Rosell ran 14.83 to finish fourth, off the record-setting winning time of 13.67. Spring Grove junior Kayleb Allen was eighth in 15.42. Advertisement Girls 100 meters: Dallastown freshman Molly Mclaughlin ran 12.65 to finish sixth, off the winning time of 12.14. Girls 1600 meters: A trio of York-Adams runners finished within seconds of each other in sixth, seventh and eighth places. Northeastern junior Sophia Treglia crossed in 5:06.32, Dallastown sophomore Neila Granger in 5:07.63 and South Western freshman Lyla Eltz in 5:11.07. The winning time was 4:56.45. Boys 1600 meters: Red Lion senior Daniel Naylor finished in sixth place in 4:20.77. The winning time was 4:12.39. Girls 4x100: The York High team of Nikoe Rodriguez, Jontai Bailey, Leira Hinojosa and Ennesty Smith ran 48.84 to finish fifth. Central York's team of Anya Jordan, Teanna Wakefield, Olivia Kennedy and Ajaya Jordan ran 49.23 to finish seventh and Dallastown's Alonna Dowell, Olivia Cleaver, Mariah Black and Molly Mclaughlin ran 49.50 to finish eighth. Advertisement Boys 4x100: The Dallastown team of Jalen Cook, Anthony Osorio, Christian Rodriguez and Christopher Cromartie ran 42.88 to finish fourth. Spring Grove's team of Nasir Shabazz-Scott, Bredon Smith, Adam Herbst and Andrew Gerber ran 43.16 to finish seventh. The winning time was 41.53. Boys 400 meters: South Western senior Elijah Holly ran 48.72 to finish fourth behind the winning time of 47.94. Girls 300 hurdles: Ella Bahn won the title for the third straight year, this time in 42.75. She beat the rest of the field by more than 1.5 seconds. Boys 300 hurdles: York High senior Robert Salazar Rosell ran 39.75 to finish third behind the winning time of 37.72. Kennard-Dale senior David Smith was fifth in 40.14, Red Lion junior Markus Edwards was sixth in 40.19 and Kennard-Dale senior Brody Eller was seventh in 40.30. Advertisement Girls 800 meters: Dallastown senior Natalie Good finished in 2:16.60 to place fourth behind the winning time of 2:12.63. Girls 200 meters: Dallastown freshman Molly Mclaughlin ran 26.02 to finish seventh and Central York sophomore Ajaya Jordan ran 26.12 to finish eighth. The winning time was 24.81. Boys 200 meters: York Tech sophomore Magnus Mitchell ran 22.08 to finish fifth, behind the winning time of 21.36. Girls 3200 meters: Freshmen Leah Navarro of Dallastown and Lyla Eltz of South Western finished sixth and seventh, respectively. Navarro ran 11:01.03 and Eltz came in at 11:01.12. The winning time was 10:40.71. Advertisement Boys 3200 meters: Northeastern senior Griffen Ridler ran 9:33.45 to finish eighth behind the winning time of 9:01.71. Girls 4x400: The South Western team of Scarlett Arnold, Miah Shulski, Makayla Glover and Keira Peake ran 4:04.55 to finish seventh. The winning time was 3:55.07. Girls 4x400: The South Western team of Ghage Schmelyun, Isaac Melendez, Landon Dull and Elijah Holly ran 3:24.46 to finish seventh. The winning time was a district record 3:16.92. Boys long jump: New Oxford junior Brayden Billman nearly met the district record with his gold medal-winning jump of 24-2. It wouldn't have counted as a record because of the wind at his back, but it won the gold. South Western junior Ghage Schmelyun finished eighth with a jump of 22-2. Advertisement Girls high jump: Spring Grove junior Ella Bahn cleared 5-4 to finish second. Central York senior Emma Chataginer tied for sixth with a jump of 5-1. The winning jump was 5-5. Boys pole vault: Susquehannock's Patrick O'Brien finished tied for sixth with a jump of 13-6. The winning jump was 14-0. Boys javelin: South Western sophomore Wyatt Carbaugh hit 179-9 on his second throw, which was good for third place and exactly 10 feet off the winning throw. Girls discus: York Tech sophomore Jaedyn Brown hit 130-10 on her last throw to secure third place. The winning throw was 140-7. Girls shot put: Dover junior Melanie Thoman hit 38-4.5 on her last attempt to finish sixth. The winning throw was 44-7. Advertisement Girls pole vault: Bermudian Springs senior Lily Carlson won the gold with a vault of 13-0, but kept going. She broke the district record at 13-9 and topped hit 14-0 for the first time in competition. Boys triple jump: New Oxford junior Brayden Billman followed a foul with a jump of 47-10.25 to win the gold medal. Boys pole vault: Susquehannock junior Patrick O'Brien cleared 13-6 to finish in a tie for sixth. The winning jump was 14-0. Girls triple jump: West York senior Tristen Thomas jumped 36-9 on her first attempt to finish eighth. The winning jump was 38-5.75. West York's Tristen Thomas competes in the 3A 300m hurdles at the PIAA District 3 Track and Field Championships at Shippensburg University's Seth Grove Stadium Saturday, May 17, 2025. Team scores Class 2A girls: 1. Schuylkill Valley, 87; 2. Annville-Cleona, 85; 3. Susquenita, 74; 4. Wyomissing, 65; 5. Greenwood, 57; 6. Trinity, 47; 7. James Buchanan and Oley Valley, 46; 9. Lancaster Catholic, 40.5; 10. Millersburg, 31. YAIAA schools: 12. Biglerville, 17; 14. Delone Catholic, 15; 16. Hanover, 10; Littlestown, 8. Advertisement Class 2A boys: 1. Wyomissing 91; Annville-Cleona, 82; 3. Lancaster Catholic, 63; 4. Oley Valley, 52; 5. Susquenita, 51; 6. Steel-High, 47; 7. Brandywine Heights, 39; 8. Halifax, 34; 9. Trinity, 29.5; 10. Littlestown, 26. Other YAIAA schools: 12. Fairfield, 24; 13. Delone Catholic, 20; 21. Biglerville, 6; 24. Bermudian Springs, 2. Class 3A girls: 1. McCaskey, 108; 2. Cumberland Valley, 44; 3. Manheim Township, 33.33; 4. Cedar Crest, 32; 5. Ephrata, 31; 6. Wilson, 30; 7. Spring Grove, 28; 8. CD East and Solanco, 27; 10. Susquehanna Twp. and Dallastown, 25. Other YAIAA schools: 16. Bermudian Springs, 12; 27. South Western, 8; 31. York Tech, 6; 33. Central York, 5; 36. Dover, 4; 37. York High, 4; 39. Northeastern, 4; 50. West York, 1. Class 3A boys: 1. Palmyra, 52, 2. Manheim Twp., 51; 3. Hershey, 45.50; 4. Cumberland Valley, 40; 5. McCaskey, 34; 6. Chambersburg, 27; 7. Central Dauphin, 25; 8. Octorara and Warwick, 23; 10. Reading and Penn Manor, 22. YAIAA schools: 12. New Oxford, 20; 17. South Western, 17; 22. Dallastown, 15; 24. York High, 11; 30. Kennard-Dale, 6; 32. Red Lion, 6; 37. York Tech, 4; 41. Spring Grove, 3; 44. Susquehannock, 2.5; 48. Central York, 1.5; 51. Northeastern, 1. Shelly Stallsmith covers York-Adams high school sports for GameTimePA and the USAToday Network. Connect with her by email mstallsmith@ or on X, formerly Twitter, @ShelStallsmith. This article originally appeared on York Daily Record: District 3 track and field: YAIAA athletes earn plenty of hard medals
BBC News
21-05-2025
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- BBC News
Bristol headteacher to represent UK at fitness championships
A headteacher says it will be an "incredible honour" to represent Team UK at an international fitness Ogden, principal of King's Oak Academy in Kingswood, qualified in first place at the British Functional Fitness Championships National Finals in will now represent Team UK at the Masters IF3 European Championships in the Netherlands in June and the IF3 World Championships in Australia in Ogden said: "This is a powerful way to show our students that commitment, balance and resilience can lead to extraordinary outcomes - whether in sport, education or life." "I'm really excited and a little nervous. These events are on a completely different scale to what I am used to," she said."I see it as an opportunity to keep learning, keep pushing myself and hopefully inspire the young people and staff in my school community along the way," she this year, Ms Ogden also reached the CrossFit Games semi-finals in the 35-39 year-old says the fitness competitions require a huge amount of work."Preparing for CrossFit competitions means training before and after school and at weekends to make sure I balance it alongside my school leadership responsibilities,' she said."It takes planning, discipline and support."
New York Times
21-05-2025
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- New York Times
Ranking college football's top 25 coaches of the 2000s, from Nick Saban to Ryan Day to Chip Kelly
Editor's note: All week, The Athletic is looking back at the best of the first 25 years of the 2000s in college football. Read the top 25 teams and top 25 players and check back for the best games and programs. College football has long been defined by its coaches. In a sport where players come and go quickly, the coaches are consistent. Advertisement The first 25 years of the 2000s have been an era of transition. Some of the winningest coaches in history left the sport early in the quarter-century. A new crop has stepped into the spotlight. So, who have been the best coaches of the 2000s thus far? The ranking below only takes into account what coaches have accomplished in the 2000s, and it only counts their FBS head coaching success, not what they may have done in the NFL or lower levels of college football. It also only counts work as a head coach, not an assistant. Does longevity help? As long as the success continued. You'll notice some coaches got out before their peak years were about to turn south, while others stuck around too long and finished on a bad note. Championships matter a lot. It helps if you took over a bad situation and made it better, rather than inheriting a good situation and continuing the success. For active coaches, this is not a grade of where they stand among their 2025 peers. It's not about trajectory or putting weight on more recent accomplishments. It's only about the total resume over 25 years. As you'll see, the hardest part was determining who didn't make the cut. I wish this was a top 30, but it's not 2030. Let's get into it: Accomplishments: Seven AP Top 25 finishes, two 11-win seasons, seven seasons with at least nine wins The numbers don't tell the full story for Leach, who only coached at schools where it's difficult to win and left all three programs much better than he found them. The 2008 Texas Tech team missed out on the Big 12 championship, and likely a Bowl Championship Series game, due to a BCS ranking tiebreaker. The Air Raid offense Leach learned from Hal Mumme completely reshaped the way football offenses work. Everyone in the Big 12 copied him in the 2000s. He died one win short of the winning percentage threshold to be eligible for the College Football Hall of Fame, but those involved believe it's likely he gets in once he can be discussed as a candidate, three years after his final game in 2022. Advertisement Accomplishments: Three Pac-12 championships, three top-five finishes, one BCS championship game appearance, four BCS bowl appearances Kelly is really difficult to place. A 46-7 record at Oregon with three top-four finishes and a BCS title game appearance before going to the NFL is an elite run, and his up-tempo offense changed the sport. But he had as many winning seasons as losing seasons at UCLA (three) and jumped to Ohio State last year to be an assistant, meaning 60 percent of his college head coaching career came with the Bruins, where he had one top-25 finish. Accomplishments: Two Big 12 championships, two Fiesta Bowl appearances, five top-15 finishes, four 11-win seasons I have to start by again noting that these rankings do not factor in success in the 1990s, which removes from consideration that Snyder's K-State teams twice nearly reached the national title game in that decade. But after the peak of one of the most amazing program turnarounds in college football history, Snyder's 2000s record was still very strong, with two Big 12 titles/Fiesta Bowls and two other top-10 finishes. To come out of retirement in 2009 and show this job could still be a winner was a remarkable achievement. But Snyder posted just one Top 25 finish in his last six seasons, and his Wildcats had six seasons with six or fewer wins after 2000. Accomplishments: Two Big Ten championships, five top-10 finishes, three BCS/NY6 appearances, eight double-digit-win seasons Ferentz will pass Woody Hayes as the winningest coach in Big Ten history with two more victories. His consistency is underrated, reaching bowl eligibility in 23 of the last 24 seasons with five top-10 finishes. The Hawkeyes have had five Top 25 finishes in the last seven seasons but no top-10 finishes since 2015. Advertisement Accomplishments: Three Big Ten championships, one CFP appearance, two BCS wins, six top-15 finishes, six double-digit-win seasons Dantonio took over a floundering MSU program in 2007 and turned it into one of the Big Ten's best. He won the school's first Big Ten title in more than two decades. The 2013 team that won the Rose Bowl might have won a national championship if the CFP had existed. Dantonio also won four consecutive games against Michigan, the first time the Spartans had done that since the early 1960s. But like several other coaches on this list, the final few years were below the standard he set, with one Top 25 finish in his last four seasons, including a 3-9 record on the heels of the CFP appearance. The consistency was similar to Ferentz, but the highs were higher, including a win over Ferentz in the 2015 Big Ten title game. Accomplishments: Four Big 12 championships, three CFP appearances, six top-15 finishes, five double-digit win seasons, three Heisman winners This is where the quality of the job a coach inherited comes into play. Riley took over a top-five, 11-win Oklahoma program and went to three consecutive CFPs. On the other hand, he was one Pac-12 championship game loss to Utah away from another CFP appearance at USC in his first year after taking over a 4-8 program. Remarkably, he's still just 41. But Oklahoma had started to take a step back before he left for L.A., and the Trojans' record has gotten worse each year since his debut season, preventing him from landing higher. Accomplishments: One undefeated season, three conference championships, two top-10 finishes, seven double-digit-win seasons, three BCS/NY6 appearances Whittingham took over for Urban Meyer after the Utes' undefeated 2004 season and produced his own undefeated year in 2008, beating Nick Saban's Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. He got the Utes from the Mountain West into the Pac-12 and then the Big 12. The 2019 Utah team looked poised to reach the CFP but was upset by Oregon in the Pac-12 title game. Utah returned the favor, knocking USC out of the CFP picture in 2021, the start of consecutive Pac-12 championships and Rose Bowl appearances. Accomplishments: Two SEC championships, eight top-10 finishes, four BCS/NY6 appearances Advertisement Richt took over a Georgia program known for failing to meet its potential and raised the bar, posting five top-10 finishes in his first seven seasons. The 2007 team finished ranked No. 2, and the 2012 team was mere yards away from winning the SEC and going to the national championship game. Richt was fired after a 9-3 season in 2015, one year removed from a top-10 finish. He returned to his alma mater at Miami (Fla.) and had two top-20 finishes in three seasons, reaching No. 2 at one point in 2017. Over 18 years, he never missed a bowl game. The only thing holding Richt's resume back was never winning the Big One. Accomplishments: One national championship, two BCS title game appearances, two SEC championships, four top-five finishes Miles produced three consecutive winning seasons at Oklahoma State after the Cowboys had just one in the previous 12. He then took over LSU in 2005, two years after Saban won a national title, and won his own in 2007. Miles also built the program back up to take the 2011 team on an undefeated run to the national championship game, where he lost to an Alabama team that LSU had already beaten. But he never again produced a top-10 team, and after getting fired early in the 2016 season, Miles went 3-18 in less than two seasons at Kansas, and he was fired amid an 0-9 start while facing allegations of inappropriate behavior toward female students from his time at LSU. He's outside the top 15 despite winning a national title and reaching another, but he's also the only coach on this list with a winless year on his resume. Accomplishments: One Big Ten championship, one CFP appearance, CFP first round and quarterfinal wins, five top-10 finishes, five NY6 appearances, two Top 25 finishes at Vanderbilt Franklin has been a consistent winner, reaching a bowl game in all 14 non-COVID-19-altered seasons he's spent as a head coach, with six double-digit-win seasons at Penn State. Given more opportunity in a 12-team CFP, Penn State won two games and nearly won a semifinal. He also took Vanderbilt to its only Top 25 finishes since 1949. The only real criticism of Franklin's run is that he hasn't won big enough, unable to get over the final hump. It's a similar resume to Richt at Georgia, but the Vanderbilt success puts Franklin higher. Accomplishments: One undefeated season, six conference championships, seven top-10 finishes, three BCS/NY6 appearances (two wins) Patterson took over a 10-win program from Dennis Franchione in 2001 and left with a statue on campus. The Horned Frogs had four consecutive top-15 finishes with at least 11 wins from 2008 to '11, including an undefeated year and Rose Bowl win in 2010. They won the Big 12 in their third season as a league member in 2014, controversially missing out on the first CFP. But Patterson's run ended with four below-average seasons from 2018 to '21 and he was fired amid a 3-5 season, with one Top 25 finish in his last six years. Advertisement Accomplishments: Four ACC championships, five top-10 finishes, 10 double-digit-win seasons (eight consecutive), five BCS appearances This window does not include Virginia Tech's appearance in the national championship game at the end of the 1999 season, but Beamer still won big in the first half of the next decade, regularly reaching the ACC championship game and finishing in the top 15. In hindsight, his run of eight straight seasons with at least 10 wins from 2004 to 2011 still doesn't get enough respect, but that stretch included no top-five finishes, and his career ended with four average seasons from 2012 to '15 and no Top 25 finishes among them. Accomplishments: One BCS national championship, three ACC championships, five top-10 finishes, one CFP appearance, four BCS/NY6 appearances, 29-game winning streak Fisher took over for a slumping Bobby Bowden in 2010 and brought FSU back to the top, with a national title in 2013 and a CFP appearance the following year after an undefeated regular season, reaching 29 consecutive wins. But he never got back to that level and left FSU for Texas A&M amid a 5-6 season. Fisher arrived in College Station with public national championship expectations. He produced a top-five finish in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season but went 5-7 two years later and was fired in 2023 with a record $76 million buyout, having posted two Top 25 finishes in six years in College Station. His resume is similar to Miles', and the national title helps a lot, but Fisher didn't have the same levels of lows or off-field conduct problems. Accomplishments: One BCS title game appearance, two CFP appearances, three BCS game appearances, four top-five finishes, 12 double-digit-win seasons in FBS Kelly has been a head coach every year since 1991 and has just two losing seasons in his entire career (Central Michigan in 2004, Notre Dame in 2016). That's incredible consistency when considering the number of job changes on his path from Division II Grand Valley State to LSU. The only thing missing from his resume is an FBS national title; he's had undefeated teams stifled by Nick Saban (2012) and Dabo Swinney (2018). This ranking doesn't include Kelly's two Division II national titles, but he had seven consecutive top-15 seasons until this past year, which was still a nine-win season. The ability to transition and keep winning boosts Kelly's case when compared to someone like Fisher or the coaches who tailed off at the end. Accomplishments: One national championship, three Big Ten championships, four CFP appearances, two national championship appearances, 70-10 record, six top-10 finishes in six seasons Advertisement It's still fascinating to look back and think Day was on the hot seat, at least in the eyes of some observers and fans, before the run to the 2024 national championship. Day had taken the Buckeyes to the championship game following the 2020 season, and they were a last-second missed field goal away from reaching the 2022 title game. It's just that dang Michigan game. Day is 49-5 against Big Ten opponents, but four of those losses have come to the Wolverines. His 87.5 winning percentage in Columbus is higher than Urban Meyer's, and future national championship runs could be on the table. He took over an elite program near the top and kept it at the top, limiting his upside on this list, but his track record as a head coach is also shorter than everyone else, so there's room to rise. Accomplishments: Two undefeated seasons, seven conference championships, nine top-15 finishes, two BCS wins, four BCS/NY6 appearances, one CFP appearance, ten double-digit-win seasons in 14 years Petersen took over good situations at Boise State and Washington and posted some of the best seasons in each school's history, especially swinging against heavyweights. The Broncos' 2006 Fiesta Bowl upset of Oklahoma was one of the biggest moments in the sport. If a Playoff had existed back then, Petersen's Boise State could have had a real shot at a national championship; his teams regularly finished around the top five. He stepped away from coaching at just 55, citing the grind of the job, but he left with no downside on the resume. His multiple undefeated seasons helped make him the highest-ranked coach on this list without a national title. Accomplishments: One national championship, two BCS title game appearances, two Big 12 championships, five top-five finishes, seven top-10 finishes, a stretch of nine consecutive double-digit-win seasons Brown brought an up-and-down Texas program its first high-level consistency in more than three decades. He and Vince Young ended USC's dynasty with a Rose Bowl win for the 2005 national championship, and we'll always wonder whether he would have won another ring in 2009 if Colt McCoy hadn't gotten hurt in the title game. Brown's last four seasons in Austin really fell off, and his second stint at North Carolina was fine but unremarkable. His last 10 years as a head coach included just two Top 25 finishes. Accomplishments: One national championship, three FBS conference championships, three CFP appearances, four top-five finishes, nine double-digit-win seasons Harbaugh took over a 1-11 Stanford team and turned it into a top-five program, leaving four years later on the heels of a 12-1 finish. After an NFL run, he returned home to Michigan, which was coming off a losing season, and won at least 10 games six times, capped by the 2023 national championship in the Wolverines' third consecutive CFP appearance. Harbaugh left town before the NCAA dropped penalties on him for rules violations, most notably the Connor Stalions sign-stealing scandal. He took two different programs to top-four finishes and won a title, but every coach ahead of him here has at least three national title game appearances, while Harbaugh had one. Advertisement Accomplishments: One national championship, three BCS title game appearances, six Big Ten championships, seven top-five finishes in 10 seasons Tressel arrived at Ohio State all but guaranteeing a win over Michigan, and his tenure ended with a 9-1 record against the Wolverines, launching two decades of rivalry dominance. He won the 2002 national title, beating the heavily favored Miami Hurricanes for the first 14-0 season in the FBS since 1897, and he reached two more title games in 2006 and '07, both lopsided losses. His Buckeyes ruled the Big Ten with an iron fist before he was forced to resign after lying to NCAA investigators about the infamous Tattoogate scandal. It's ultimately a shorter tenure with an abrupt exit and NCAA concerns like Harbaugh, but one with no downswing. Accomplishments: One national championship, 10 Big 12 championships, four BCS title game appearances, seven top-five finishes, 11 top-10 finishes, two Heisman winners Stoops was really close to cracking the top five here, but every coach in front of him has multiple national championships. Stoops' lone title in 2000 just makes the cut, and his four national title game appearances over nine years — an impressive showing when a title game appearance required a top-two ranking — are very notable. He dominated the Big 12 for well over a decade and stepped away in 2017 after consecutive top-five appearances. The lack of a second title is the only thing that hurts the resume. Accomplishments: Two national championships, nine ACC championships, six top-five finishes, four CFP title game appearances, six CFP appearances, 29-game winning streak Swinney went from lame-duck interim head coach to future Hall of Famer. He went 2-1 against Nick Saban in national championship games, with wins in 2016 and 18 and a loss in '15. He also lost to an all-time great LSU team in the 2019 title game. That five-year run of top-four finishes was the closest anyone had come to Saban at that point. While the Tigers have slid back from that high in recent years, they still win 10-plus games a year and just won another ACC title in 2024, earning them a spot in the expanded CFP. Accomplishments: Two national championships, three SEC championships, four CFP appearances, five top-five finishes Advertisement The highest-ranked active coach on this list has plenty of time to add to his resume. Smart inherited a nine-win team from Richt and won two CFP national championships in 2021 and 2022, also reaching the title game in 2017. His teams have reached the top three in the polls at some point in each of the last eight seasons. He took the Alabama model to Athens and unlocked the potential Georgia always had. Accomplishments: Two national championships, seven Pac-10 championships, seven top-five finishes in nine seasons, three Heisman winners, 34-game winning streak Carroll was USC's fourth choice for the job, then built the first real dynasty of the 2000s. The Trojans won a split national title in 2003, won the BCS title in 2004 and were one Vince Young fourth-down run away from the first three-peat since World War II. Carroll won at least nine games in every season but his first and left for the NFL before looming NCAA penalties arrived, though he wasn't directly implicated. Like Tressel and Harbaugh, the timing of his departure means the resume is nothing but wins. Carroll lands ahead of Smart because he took over a USC program that hadn't won 10 games in more than a decade, while Smart inherited one of the top programs in the SEC. Accomplishments: Three national championships, two additional undefeated seasons, seven conference championships, nine top-five finishes Only two coaches have won a national championship at multiple schools, and they top this list. Meyer won two at Florida in 2006 and 2008 before stepping away due to health concerns. He returned at Ohio State a few years later and opened with an undefeated season in 2012, though the Buckeyes were banned from the postseason due to the Tattoogate scandal under Tressel, but then won it all in 2014. Meyer also went undefeated at Utah in 2004 with Alex Smith at quarterback, as the Utes became the first program from outside a power conference to reach a BCS bowl. His 187-39 record is good for a winning percentage of 85 percent. It's one of the most impressive runs in history, behind only the guy who ended Florida's run. Accomplishments: Seven national championships, 11 SEC championships, 18 top-10 finishes (16 straight), 13 top-five finishes, four Heisman winners Saban is the most successful coach in the history of the sport and an easy No. 1. His run at Alabama from the late 2000s through the 2010s set a new precedent for the era. A lot of other really good coaches and programs that historically would have won a championship did not because they ran into Saban's Alabama on the other sideline. Every four-year player at Alabama under Saban won a national championship. We'll likely never see a run like that again. Fittingly, Saban and Meyer will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in the same class later this year. Advertisement Honorable mention: Mike Gundy, David Shaw, Rich Rodriguez, Bret Bielema, Ed Orgeron, Art Briles, Steve Spurrier, Ken Niumatalolo, Jeff Monken, Bobby Bowden, Joe Paterno, Bobby Petrino, Gary Pinkel, Troy Calhoun, Frank Solich. 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