College football had 21 coaching changes in the off-season. Some hires are better than others. Not that you can always see which is which. But it’s fun to speculate.
Time to rank the 21 hires, with no respecter of status. In other words, if Kent State makes a seemingly great hire for Kent State, that carries as much as weight as Tennessee making a seemingly great hire for Tennessee.
1. Florida: Dan Mullen replaced Jim McElwain. Mullen had spent no time in the South when hired by Urban Meyer to be Florida’s offensive coordinator in 2005.