There’s an argument to be made that Pat Narduzzi is the No. 2 football coach in the ACC. After all, the conference was decided in a title game between Pitt and Clemson in 2018, with the Narduzzi-led Panthers finishing second only to Dabo Swinney’s Tigers. However, that is not how analysts at CBS Sports perceive the situation, as they released a ranking of the ACC coaches on Wednesday, placing Narduzzi 11th out of the conference's 14 coaches.
”I contend that Pitt’s mid-to-late-season run in 2018 is worth a bigger bump in the rankings for Narduzzi, because that team’s identity was built from the DNA of a football lifer,” wrote Chip Patterson, one of the CBS analysts.