Top 8 coaches in college football now that Jimbo, Malzahn, etc. discussions are

Jumbo goes in front of stoops

I think Jimbo is in the right spot. I think he's a great but not exceptional coach. Some on that list would excel at mediocre programs, and I don't think Jimbo is one. Same for Miles.

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6 David Shaw

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I think Shaw is an excellent coach, but perhaps it is too soon to put him in that elite company. He's only been HC 3 years, right?

Despite Stanford being an amazing academic school, it's not as though they disregard athletics thus making winning at Stanford shocking. The Stanford brass strongly support athletics.

Plus, it was Harbaugh who brought Stanford out of their football decline. Shaw may be an elite coach, but too soon to definitively say he is with the best of the best.

Just my two cents on a subjective scale.

I like Miles a lot and he has done a hell of a job at LSU but I put him around 5 with Saban,Meyer,Strong,Patterson in front. I like Shaw a lot too

Saban
Spurrier
Meyer
Miles
Stoops
Malzahn
Shaw
Jimbo

Spurrier should be #1.

He turned UF into a national power.
He has turned USCe into a top SEC program.
He won a Conf. Championship at Duke.

There is not a coach in the nation who has had a bigger impact on every program he has coached at.

1 Saban
2 Meyer
3 Miles/Spurrier
4 Jimbo
5 Stoops
6 Shaw
7 Malzahn

FTR, a more interesting question is where these coaches are in terms of career trajectory (who's on the way up, maintaining or on the way down).

I think Richt deserves to be top 8.

1) Saban
2) Spurrier
3) Fisher
4) Miles
5) Snyder
6) Dantonio
7) Richt
8) Malzahn
9) Stoops
10) Shaw
11) Meyer

Malzahn and Shaw are down in my book because they haven't demonstrated the maintenance bit yet. Once they get some more years of success under their belt they'd move up. Meyer has a lot of experience compared to them but hasn't proved he can maintain a program; he's done well each year but he job-hops too much and he's left his programs behind him a total mess.