Grading the hires of new college football coaches is an offseason tradition and an exercise in educated guess work.
Still, college football writers do it every year, ticking off fans of teams that receive poor marks and opening themselves up for criticism years later when that C turns out to be an A. Or vice versa.
So let's not do that. Instead, let's rank the members of the 2016-17 class of newly hired coaches by which are most likely to succeed in their jobs.
Success is relative, of course. At Texas, triumph is a steady diet of conference titles and national championship contention.