CBS Sports Ranks Rutgers Greg Schiano as 14th Best Head Coach in Big Ten
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CBS Sports posted a ranking of all the Big Ten head coaches to evaluate how they stack up against one another. This list includes all of the new coaches who took over Big Ten programs as part of the off-season coaches carousel. Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano was ranked at No.14 on this list.
The reason Schiano was listed at No. 14 on this list and not lower is that he has led the Scarlet Knights to the highest highs the program has seen in terms of power-conference football. He is responsible for a large majority of Rutgers’ bowl appearances, and his 99 total wins on the banks are the highest of any Rutgers coach.
The reason he isn’t any higher on the list is that they believe that his high-water mark as a Big Ten coach has a mediocrity level cap.
“On one hand, Schiano is responsible for most of the high-level success in Rutgers football history. He’s led the Scarlet Knights in nine of the program’s 13 bowl appearances and six of their seven bowl wins. His 99 wins across two tenures are by far the most all-time, and his .478 winning percentage is basically in line with the standard across 156 years of Rutgers football (.492). But the seven-win peak from 2023 and 2024 might be the ceiling for Rutgers in the Big Ten chapter of Schiano’s tenure, as he’s 15-39 against conference foes since returning in 2020 and has reached the postseason just three times in six years.”- CBS Sports’ Chip Patterson on Greg Schiano.
The entire rankingof Big Ten coaches, according to CBS, is
No.1 Ryan Day, Ohio State
No.2 Curt Cignetti, Indiana
No.3 Dan Lanning, Oregon
N.4 Kyle Whittingham, Michigan
No.5 Lincoln Riley, USC
No.6 Kirk Ferentz, Iowa
No.7 Bret Bielma, Illinois
No.8 Matt Campbell, Penn State
No.9 Matt Rhule, Nebraska
No.10 Jedd Fisch, Washington
No.11 Pat Fitzgerald, Michigan State
No.12 Luke Fickell, Wisconsin
No.13 PJ Fleck, Minnesota
No.14 Greg Schiano, Rutgers
No.15 Barry Odom, Purdue
No.16 Bob Chesney, UCLA
No.17 David Braun, Northwestern
No.18 Mike Locksley, Maryland
The one surprise on this list is that they put Whittingham in the top five before he has coached a down of Big Ten football. While he has been a consistently very good head coach at Utah, putting him in the top five of Big Ten coaches before he has coached a game doesn’t make much sense. His ranking at No.4 isn’t far from reasonable; it is just a little too high to be believable right now.
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