re: ESPN Ranks College Football's Top Coaches

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Kirby was not considered a top 2 coach in 2016. Saban was probably not considered a top 2 coach in 2007. DeBoer is considered a top 2 coach in 2024

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Kirby had never been a head coach before Georgia. Meanwhile Deboer just got his team with less talent than Alabama to be the runner up National Champions.
This isn’t Deboer’s first head coaching job, he has a great P5 track record.
Saban only wasn’t considered top 2 in 2007 because Steve Spurrier, Urban Meyer, Mack Brown, Jim Tressel, and Bobby Bowden were all coaching. It was known that Saban was going to win a National Championship. He had already done it at a lesser school