All kinds of power rankings for the 2024 college football season are starting to be released, and a recent ranking of the Big 12’s best head coaches for the upcoming season recently caught our attention.
We were interested in seeing where new Arizona coach Brent Brennan and Arizona State coach Kenny Dillingham were ranked among the 16 coaches in the conference for 2024, so we started scrolling down the list, which was put together by USA TODAY Sports’ Buffaloes Wire.
We had to scroll a long way.
Tony Cosolo, who compiled the Big 12 coach ranking, only had one coach ranked worse than Brennan, who was hired to replace Jedd Fisch after Fisch took the job at Washington.
Only two coaches were ranked worse than Dillingham (one of them being Brennan), who went 3-9 overall in his first season at ASU in 2023.
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Why is Brent Brennan ranked so low among Big 12 football coaches?
Cosolo wrote of Brennan’s ranking as the No. 15 coach in the Big 12: “It has been a whirlwind offseason in Tucson as Arizona replaced head coach Jedd Fisch, who took the Washington Huskies job, with former San Jose State leader Brent Brennan. Brennan had some rough seasons with the Spartans but made three bowls in the past four seasons.”
Does the Arizona coach deserve to be so low in the ranking?
The Wildcats lost some talent with Fisch’s departure to Washington, but they still have a lot of playmakers, led by quarterback Noah Fifita and wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan.
Still, the unknown of Brennan going to a bigger program like Arizona from San Jose State must have made Cosolo hesitant to place the new Arizona coach higher.
If Arizona has the kind of season some people think it will, however, Brennan could quickly find himself much higher ranked among Big 12 football…
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Author : AZCentral | The Arizona Republic
Publish date : 2024-03-08 17:51:12
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