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2 days ago · Dabo Swinney’s highest-rated recruiting class, assembled while the Tigers were defending national champs, had five five-stars and 10 top-100 signees. ... out of the program, though five did ...
Sep 25, 2023 · Swinney helped the Tigers become an annual top 10 program the last decade-plus and entered the 2023 season as one of the frontrunners to take the ACC prior to a disappointing 2-2 start. Iowa...
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ESPN's 20-year SP+ average: 9.98 Our take: Urban Meyer won 22 games over two seasons before handing the keys to the program to Kyle Whittingham in 2005. Since, Whittingham has managed seven seasons with double-digit win totals and has won consecutive Pac-12 championships.
ESPN's 20-year SP+ average: 10.0 Our take: Brian Kelly went on a notable run at Notre Dame from 2010 through 2021 before leaving the program for the LSU vacancy. Marcus Freeman hopes to continue what numerous successful coaches managed to accomplish before him in the future.
ESPN's 20-year SP+ average: 10.02 Our take: Admittedly, we were surprised to see the Volunteers as one of the SEC's nine programs ranked inside ESPN's SP+ top 25 over the last 20 years. Josh Heupel's 11-2 season in 2022 was only Tennessee's third finish inside the top 15 since 2004.
ESPN's 20-year SP+ average: 10.10 Our take: The standard in the Mountain West Conference since leaving the WAC after the 2010 season, Boise State is theGroup of Five program that's shown the most success over this 20-year average.
ESPN's 20-year SP+ average: 10.24 Our take: Under Gary Pinkel, the Tigers twice won the SEC East upon arrival in 2012, but have put together only one eight-win season since. Getting back to that heightened level of notoriety is the goal for Eli Drinkwitz and the current staff.
ESPN's 20-year SP+ average: 10.27 Our take: Kirk Ferentz followed Hayden Fry at the turn of the millennium and has nine nationally-ranked finishes over this 20-year stretch. He won Big Ten titles in 2002 and 2004 and reached the conference title games twice since.
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When the Tigers took the field in November 1869 against Rutgers in the first college football game ever played, the university was known as the College of New Jersey. Today, Princeton claims a record 28 national championships in football — 15 of which are officially recognized by the NCAA — all but one of which came before the so-called ...
Feb 11, 2020 · We saw Clemson become one of the winningest programs of the CFP era with top-15 to top-10 talent, and the trends are pointing to the Tigers only getting better in the years to come.
Aug 15, 2019 · In honor of college football's 150th anniversary, our metrics rank CFB's elite across every division, from the obvious contenders like Alabama and Notre Dame to small-school powers like Mount...
Jun 26, 2020 · Lowdown: The Tigers made a jump after winning the national championship in 2019. Ed Orgeron took the program out of Alabama's shadow last season with a once-in-a-lifetime season from Joe Burrow.
