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Forde-Yard Dash: Who’s in Pole Position to Be a Coach of the Year?

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (folding chairs no longer sold separately in Starkville):

Third Quarter

Coach of the Year Race Updates—Nationally and by Conference

We are three-fourths of the way through the regular season, which means enough results are in the books to take educated looks at the various Coach of the Year sweepstakes. It’s worth noting that a lot can still change between now and the end of November, but this is how The Dash sees it heading into the stretch run:

National Coach of the Year

The leader is TCU’s Sonny Dykes (21), whose team is ranked fourth in the nation in the AP poll after being picked to finish seventh in the Big 12.