Compile your own top coaches list. That’s what Tom Dinehart of Sporting News did. Dinehart had been compiling lists for all of the BCS Conferences and he ranked coaches from number 1 to 66. You can check out his article here. If you are interested, you can compare his thoughts with Stewart Mandel’s list and the one compiled by Collegesports-fans.com. There is also the list compiled by SI.com’s Lang Whitaker compiled in August of 2007. Mandel’s was published in July of 2007, but I’m not sure when the Collegesports-fans.com list compiled. All seem high on Pete Carroll who finished first on three of the four lists.

These kinds of list are usually pretty subjective when you get below the top 5. There is also usually a desire to put coaches who may have been successful in the past but not in the present on these lists. Such coaches may have won national championships, but his teams may have not been too good in the last five years. Writers also like to include “hot” young coaches who they think will be the next Urban Meyer.

I hope to reveal my top ten list of best college football coaches in the coming few days.