The Sporting News’s Tom Dienhart is already catching flak for his ranking of the nation’s best BCS coaches. He’s got Pete Carroll ranked first, followed by Jim SweaterVest-sel and Rich Rodriguez. Urban Meyer is ranked 12th, but just imagine if the Gators had gone undefeated this past season: he might have even cracked the top ten! Jim Harbaugh, the fiery new Stanford boss who already seems intent on picking fights with the bigger dogs in the neighborhood, checks in at number 61. The worst BCS coach, according to Dienhart? Iowa State’s Gene Chizik, who has yet to coach a single game but whose defenses at Auburn and Texas helped produced back-to-back undefeated seasons. You know what? Even with zero career wins, we might still take Chizik over Ron Zook (49th) or Sylvester Croom (56th). Call it the lure of the unknown… as in, we don’t know how good he is, but we know those other guys pretty much suck.

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