re: SEC Football Coaches Record vs Top 10

Like a batting average, there should be a minimum number of games in order to be considered. Let's assume 10 games minimum.

Kirby Smart: 19-8 (.703)

Steve Sarkisian: 6-13 (.316)

Hugh Freeze: 5-11 (3.13)

Brian Kelly: 6-20 (.231)

Lane Kiffin: 4-15 (.211)

Mark Stoops: 2-17 (.105)

Sam Pittman: 1-9 (.100)

Pittman and Stoops I get, but Lane and Kelly should be ashamed. That's always been the knock on them, unable to win the games that matter. They'll both have a chance to redeem themselves this season, so we shall see if either has turned the corner.
Freeze is an outlier. He always wins a game or 2 that he shouldn't, but then loses a couple of headscratchers against far inferior opponents. I guess luck is one of those things that goes both ways.