2021 Power Five Coach Rankings (05/19)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew reveals and debates the new CBS Sports coach rankings. After a reveal of the entire list from No. 1 to No. 65 (4:40), the discussion begins with the value of recruiting as a skill for modern coaches, focusing on Kirby Smart and others who have talent advantages against the competition (9:00). Then it’s on to the other side of the coaching debate with the likes of Pat Fitzgerald and Matt Campbell, coaches who have won at non-traditional powers (20:48). Finally, where are the outliers from our ballots for the coach rankings? (30:15). Finally, the outliers: find out who was higher or lower than the group on Gary Patterson, Kirk Ferentz (35:25), Geoff Collins (41:15), David Shaw (46:15), Mark Stoops (52:00) and more.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny |
| 0:09.3 | Cannell, and Bob Elliott. |
| 0:11.9 | It's your call for the best college football coverage from National Signing Day to the |
| 0:16.8 | National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:20.6 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:25.9 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:29.8 | That's Danny Cannell, that's Tom Fernelli, that's Bud Elliott. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm Chip Patterson. |
| 0:34.1 | We teased it earlier in the week. |
| 0:36.3 | They are finally out. |
| 0:37.6 | It is time to unveil the CBS Sports Coach rankings. |
| 0:42.6 | One through 65. |
| 0:44.3 | Every power five head coach and Notre Dame put into a ranking that is compiled by experts |
| 0:51.0 | from CBS Sports, from 24-7 sports. |
| 0:54.1 | All the ballots come together. |
| 0:55.6 | Tom Fernelli sorts it all out, writes it all up, posts it on the site, blurbs for everybody. |
| 1:01.6 | He's in there in the story saying like, I don't know what you guys are thinking. |
| 1:05.8 | I had this guy way higher. |
| 1:07.9 | You're doing a great job of messaging Tom within the context of this story so that fans |
| 1:13.7 | understand that it is not specifically your opinion, but the consensus. |
| 1:18.4 | But you're still can't. |
| 1:20.0 | You absolutely cannot do it. |
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