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College football coaching job tiers: Alabama, Texas, USC among most appealing

Four long years have passed since ESPN+ attempted to rank the college football coaching jobs. Since then, some programs have upgraded facilities, coaching, recruiting operations and on-field play, while others have backslid in key areas.

The goal here is to assess which Power 5 jobs are most coveted by coaches (a Group of 5 ranking is coming soon). Rather than ranking every single job, I divided them into tiers, based on certain criteria. These are not necessarily tiers of teams -- colleague David Hale took care of that in April -- but the most appealing sets of jobs.