Every college football season produces a new group of coaches to evaluate, but the 2022 coaching class might be unrivaled with its star power and scope.
There were new coaches at three of the sport's 10 winningest programs -- Oklahoma (Brent Venables), Notre Dame (Marcus Freeman) and USC (Lincoln Riley). Four others took over teams with multiple national titles (Miami's Mario Cristobal, LSU's Brian Kelly, Florida's Billy Napier, Washington's Kalen DeBoer). Other than the Big Ten, every Power 5 league had multiple new coaches, many at notable programs like Oregon (Dan Lanning) and TCU (Sonny Dykes).
Back in October, I awarded midseason grades for all 29 coaches, noting that each had time to enhance his mark or erode it before the end of the season.