Ranking the top 25 CFB coaches
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Stew and Bruce have their annual list of top 25 college football coaches! On this year's podcast The Athletic's Chris Vannini joins the discussion.
How far should Jimbo Fisher fall in the rankings?
Should Nick Saban or Kirby Smart be ranked #1?
Why did Bruce rank James Franklin ahead of Ryan Day & Brian Kelly?
Did a Group of 5 coach make the cut?
Does Chip Kelly make the top 25?
Lane Kiffin continues to be a polarizing figure in the sport.
Plus, more discussion and debate!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:21.7 | I don't want to call it a very special edition, Stu. |
| 0:24.2 | But we're not going to do the mailbag to this week. |
| 0:26.5 | We will get to it early next week. |
| 0:28.6 | But we are joined by a special guest. |
| 0:30.5 | He is our colleague from the Athletic. |
| 0:31.9 | He is our group of five maven and really plugged in on a lot of things coaching carousel-wise. |
| 0:37.9 | Chris Vanini, thank you, Chris, for joining us today. |
| 0:41.3 | Good to be here, guys. |
| 0:43.0 | All right. |
| 0:43.4 | We are drudging you up in the middle of NCAA March Madness. |
| 0:49.5 | Because we want you to write some coaching job profiles that we think might come open in nine |
| 0:53.2 | months and I'm skipping. |
| 0:54.7 | No, we are doing our annual top 25 coaching rankings. |
| 0:59.7 | And to be perfectly honest, Stu hates Ralph Russo now because he always comes on this episode. |
| 1:05.3 | Stu feels like he's ganging up because he's on my side. |
| 1:09.9 | So he is basically kicked Ralph to the curb this week. |
| 1:14.9 | And we are glad you can join us. |
| 1:17.2 | Ralph is covering the Big East tournament. |
| 1:19.3 | Let's not make it seem like I didn't gauge his interest. |
| 1:22.7 | But you're glad he is. |
| 1:24.3 | Let's be honest. |
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