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Forde-Yard Dash: Which Coordinators Are Making the Case for Head Jobs?

Names like Illinois’s Ryan Walters and Tennessee’s Alex Golesh may become hot commodities.

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where a 330-pound cartwheeler should never be penalized:

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Rising Coordinators

With six FBS head-coach openings already and more certain to come, the coaching carousel will be accelerating in the coming weeks. Among those who could be in line for jobs—as head coaches or assistants at a different program—are a slew of coordinators who have boosted their profiles this season.

A Dash list, which comes with the following caveat—all these guys have good jobs already and might not want to leave:

Ryan Walters (21), Illinois defensive coordinator.