Here is your September report card for 10 power-conference coaches in their first seasons at a new school.
Grading new coaching hires is a popular December trope, when the news is fresh but the data is nonexistent. Better to start the grading process now, after a month of games are in the books. Here is your September report card for 10 power-conference coaches in their first seasons at a new school:How do you replace the best there ever was? By starting the season 4–0 and taking over the No. 1 ranking.
Indiana is 5–0 for the first time since that Rose Bowl team of ’67, and it’s a pretty dominant 5–0. Average winning margin: 35.8 points. That includes a 2–0 Big Ten start, routing UCLA in Pasadena and handling Maryland at home. The Hoosiers are third nationally in scoring and ninth in total offense after Cignetti worked a rapid remake of the roster in the offseason.
It’s good to be 2–0 in the SEC without having yet played a league game at Kyle Field. The first one is Saturday against No. 9 Missouri, and a victory over the Tigers would really get the Elko lovefest rolling in College Station.This looked like an “A” hire when it happened, and it looks even more like it now. The Eagles are 4–1, with their lone loss by six points at Missouri.
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