Deion Sanders lands near the bottom of CBS Sports' coach rankings

Deion Sanders is entering his fourth season as Colorado's head coach, hoping to transform his 3-29 football team into a consistent winning program beginning in 2026.

As we prepare for the 2026 season, everyone is updating their head coach rankings, with Sanders ranked No. 54 nationally in one ranking and the seventh-best coach in the Big 12. CBS Sports updated its Big 12 coach rankings as well, with Coach Prime landing at No. 13 (No. 60 nationally) on the list. Sanders dropped 27 spots in the national rankings and six in the Big 12 after last season.

Sanders falls surprisingly behind Iowa State's Jimmy Rogers, but ahead of UCF's Scott Frost, Utah's Morgan Scalley and Kansas State's Collin Klein.

Here's what CBS Sports' Cody Nagel had to say about its ranking:

No Power Four coach saw his stock fall further after last season than Sanders. He dropped 27 spots in the national rankings and six in the Big 12, tied for the largest decline since Herm Edwards (-34) in 2022. The drop comes one year after Sanders was the biggest riser in the Power Four (+28), perfectly illustrating the up-and-down trajectory of his tenure in Boulder.

The volatile nature of Deion Sanders' ranking proves that since he took over in 2023, there has not been any level of consistency. This offseason, it seems that Sanders and the entire staff evaluated their approach and implemented program-wide changes, which so far through fall camp have been visible.

The top coaches in the conference according to CBS Sports are BYU's Kalani Sitake and Houston's Willie Fritz, with Texas Tech's Joey McGuire rounding out the top three.

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