Editor's note: Virginia Tech's Frank Beamer was accidentally left off the original version of this list. He has been added, at No. 27, so now it's a top 101 list.
Nick Saban won his sixth national title in 12 years at Alabama, and his seventh overall, this past January. He had already put together maybe the greatest run of sustained dominance the sport has seen -- only Bobby Bowden's 14 straight top-five finishes could compete -- and it's jarring to realize that last year's team was quite possibly his best ever.
Saban brought high-level success to Michigan State in the late 1990s (and pulled one of the sport's most memorable upsets with the Spartans' 1998 defeat of No.