As we kept shuffling our preferred power rankings for Florida's next head coach, one name we kept propping up was Ohio State OC Brian Hartline. While he doesn't have previous head coaching experience, he has been an undeniable force at Ohio State and is considered an elite recruiter.
And considering four of the current top five-ranked teams right now are led by a coach who was a Power Four coordinator at their previous stop (Ohio State, Georgia, Texas Tech, and Oregon), we felt this pathway had a higher upside to it.
Florida instead opted for Jon Sumrall out of Tulane.