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Ranking college football's top 25 coaches: Kirby Smart, Ryan Day lead list ruled by Big Ten

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College football's coaches with a national championship top our top-25 list that's dominated by the Big Ten and SEC .

Kirby Smart , Ryan Day and Dabo Swinney lead list that includes Steve Sarkisian , James Franklin , Dan Lanning .

Next wave of coaches behind championship trio includes Steve Southerner , James Franklin and Marcus Freeman .

Lane Kiffin once envied the coaches' statues at Alabama .

If Kiffin keeps winning like he has been at Ole Miss, he might get that statue after all.

Brian Kelly quietly turned LSU into Quarterback U , with Garrett Nussmeier following Heisman Trophy winner Jayden Daniels .

Jeff Brohm makes programs better, whether Western Kentucky , Purdue or Louisville .

Matt Rhule is starting to pull Nebraska back toward relevancy.

Bret Bielema's meat-and-potatoes style has yielded another Big Ten winner at Illinois .

Kalani Sitake raised BYU 's profile with a pair of double-digit win seasons prior to joining the Big 12 for the 2023 season .

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