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And #3 on Stewart Mandel's rankings as well. by mocopdx

Both are private on The Athletic.

Enough has been said about Brian Kelly by myself and others on here. My biggest takeaway is just how far ahead of everyone else Saban and Swinney are at this point. As I went down the list to think "that can't be right, there have to be 10-20 guys better than Kelly easily", I have to admit, the rest have flaws too, outside of maybe Ryan Day where it's too early to judge. Mandel basically summarizes BK's placement as "two playoff appearances in three years... he got blown out by Clemson and Bama but so did everyone else".

With that said, there are certainly a number of coaches I would replace Kelly with yesterday.