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Pac-12 football coach hire grades: Arizona's Kevin Sumlin hire the best in conference?

There will be five new head coaches in the Pac-12 in 2018 (barring any other unforeseen changes).

Which team fared the best in their changes?

Time will tell, of course, once everyone starts playing games.

But until then: Report cards!

The Mercury News' Jon Wilner has moved Arizona to the top of the list. He raved about the hiring of Kevin Sumlin in a recent column where he graded the hires in the Pac-12 conference.

Wilner writes that Arizona's hire "makes loads of sense on numerous levels — not the least of which, it seems, is the in-state leverage it gives the Wildcats over Arizona State.