Clemson's Dabo Swinney Ranked as the 5th Best Head Coach in College Football
Matrix Analytical has developed a formula called the Coaching Rating Index, which is used to determine which coaches are the best head coaches in all of college football. It's an interesting data-based look at this argument that eliminates the standard, "But do they have a natty?" type questions that typically invade these conversations.
Matrix told 247Sports that, "The CRI is a massive grading system with over 30,000 individual unit profiles and over 250,000 annual coaching result reports."
Dabo Swinney is one of only three head coaches to win multiple CFP National Championships. (Clemson Athletics)
For these rankings, only coaches with three-plus years of experience are ranked to provide a proper context of a coach's abilities. The system assigns a star rating to each coach based on where their number between 1 and 100 falls. So if a coach earns a 90-100 then they're a 5 star but if they fall between 80-89 then they're a 4.5 star and so on.
Dabo Swinney earned a 90.54 overall score placing him 5th among the current top 10 head coaches in the game and giving him a 5-star rating, one of only 5 coaches to gain that recognition. Only Ryan Day, Lincoln Riley, Kirby Smart, and Nick Saban rank higher. Obviously, Clemson fans might take issue with the rankings of Day and Riley considering the difference in the trophy rooms. Also, Swinney is much closer to Day at 4 than Jim Harbaugh, who's ranked #6, is to Dabo and that top group.
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