The Sports Blawger has posted a list of the top ten college football coaches. Some interesting choices along the way (for example, Urban Meyer over Mack Brown), but he ends up in the right place:

1. Pete Carroll, Southern California

Yep. It’s Pete. If OSU dominates the Big-10, I don’t think they’ve invented a name for what Carroll and USC does to their conference. Obliterate, maybe? The way he’s going, by the time he’s retired, they’ll have to fit his toes for Rose Bowl Rings / Pac-10 Champion Rings, because he won’t have any fingers left!

While the fact that he ran a loose ship for many years that appears to have led to some player-agent contact kind of makes me nervous about Carroll, it looks as if he’s made the sidelines and locker room off-limits to those slime balls and they have to get to the players to give them money the way agents do at every other school: through the boosters!

Seriously though, it’s hard not to respect what Carroll has accomplished at USC. The program was absolutely dormant before he came along, and now he’s the coach with the definition of a reloading roster. His team recruits itself. He wouldn’t have to work too hard if he didn’t want to, but he does. I know the departing Pac-10 Commish didn’t mind the dominance of USC. It provided him with a lot of security and a lot of money for the conference.

All the man does is win football games, and he just happens to win more of them, more often, than any other coach in college football. He owns the best winning percentage of any coach in college football, and he’s done it in what has been the second or third toughest conference in college football year in and year out. His teams always play a decent out of conference schedule (well, accept Notre Lame), and his bowl record is outstanding (5-2 … hey, just as good as Mark Richt’s!), but what is more outstanding is that he’s been to 6 straight BCS Bowl Games, yes, SIX STRAIGHT BCS Bowls in his seven year career.

Unlike Bobby Bowden, Carroll survived the departure of his offensive coordinator whom many thought was mainly responsible for his success and proved that no, Carroll is responsible for Carroll’s success. Without Norm Chow, USC has kept rolling along, obliterating the Pac-10 and destroying Rose Bowl opponents.

Any list of coaches without Carroll at the top is an illegitimate list, and that’s a fact. It’s science. It can’t be argued with.

We’d also like to point out, as we have before, that in addition to the six consecutive BCS appearances, Carroll and the Trojans also have six consecutive seasons of 11 wins or more. That’s never been done before.