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The top 5 jobs in college football: Which programs do coaches, staffers consider the best?

Related Topics: Steve Sarkisian, Kirby Smart

So much has changed across college football over the past three years. There have been seismic coaching moves. Realignment has eliminated a power conference and forced us to reconsider how much geography actually matters. And the introduction of name, image and likeness combined with the freedom of movement provided by the transfer portal has thrown all prior convictions about roster management to the wind.

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With all of these changes, we thought it was a perfect time to revisit this question we posed three years ago: What are the top five jobs in the sport?

The Athletic polled 50 people working in college football — from head coaches to general managers to assistant coaches, analysts and recruiting staffers — to determine which programs are now at the top of the food chain.