After false alarms at Michigan and Auburn, the 2021-22 college football coaching carousel has stopped spinning for good. The end to a wild cycle provides the opportunity to examine the coaching hires from the recent past.
Borrowing an NFL idea from colleague Bill Barnwell, I will rank the top 10 college coaching hires from the past five seasons. The era of long-tenured coaches and slow builds to success is largely over in college football, where everything seems to be moving faster. Some of the sport's hottest coaches have been hired since the end of the 2016 season, or even more recently.