Is Oklahoma State football the best coaching job in new-look Big 12? Cowboys have company

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The college football coaching carousel has been rather idle in Big 12 country.

Houston fired Dana Holgorsen after the Cougars went 4-8 in their inaugural Big 12 season, and Houston might be the only Big 12 job open this offseason.

Baylor is retaining Dave Aranda, Neal Brown looks to have saved his job at West Virginia and no other Big 12 coach appears to be in peril. At least for now.

How good is the Houston job? That’s a question we’re tackling in this week’s edition of Big 12 tiers.

With OU and Texas out — and Utah, Colorado, Arizona and Arizona State in — ranking the best jobs in the 16-team Big 12 isn’t as easy as it once was. There’s no “destination job,” but there’s a whole lot of good ones.

*-Teams in the same tier are sorted alphabetically 

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Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy, left, greets TCU head coach Sonny Dykes, right, after an NCAA college football game in Fort Worth, Texas, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. TCU won 43-40 in double overtime.

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Oklahoma State

Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, Georgia, Oklahoma, Oregon, LSU, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Wisconsin. Those are the 10 Power schools with the most wins since 2010.

If OSU gets another win this season, it will be the Cowboys’ eighth 10-win season during that span.

OSU has been ranked in the top-15 of the AP in 14 of the past 16 seasons, including this one. The Cowboys are set to play in their 18th consecutive bowl game, and they’re playing in the Big 12 Championship for the second time in three years.

All of that was accomplished under Mike Gundy, the best coach in school history, but the Cowboys also had sustained success under Jimmy Johnson and Pat Jones in the late 70s and 80s.

OSU should be an annual contender in the new-look Big 12, and an…

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Publish date : 2023-11-29 13:01:42

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