{"id":226858,"date":"2025-10-15T16:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/226858\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:01:11","slug":"joel-klatt-reveals-his-midseason-top-five-coaches-for-coach-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/226858\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Klatt reveals his midseason top five coaches for Coach of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joel Klatt revealed his midseason top five coaches<\/a> for the Coach of the Year award, now that we\u2019re halfway through the regular season. There\u2019s still plenty of time for this list to change, but these five head coaches have made their mark so far.<\/p>\n

Klatt named Indiana\u2019s Curt Cignetti his midseason winner, although that\u2019s subject to change. It\u2019s easy to see why he\u2019s the frontrunner now though.<\/p>\n

So without further ado, let\u2019s dive into Klatt\u2019s Coach of the Year contenders. We\u2019ll start with the man in Bloomington.<\/p>\n

Indiana is off to a 6-0 start, dominated Illinois 63-10 and knocked off Oregon in Eugene. This team is now No. 3 in the country and looks like a national title contender.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right, a national title contender with the way they\u2019ve played. It\u2019s hard to pick against Cignetti for Coach of the Year right now.<\/p>\n

\"Mario\u00a9 Sam Navarro-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Cristobal has Miami off to a 5-0 start and if it weren\u2019t for a bad ending to the season last year, this could\u2019ve been one of the best stretches in recent history for the program. But, the Hurricanes are the ACC front runner and in contention for the No. 1 seed in the College Football Playoff.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s in the running for Coach of the Year as long as keeps this up. MIami is in great shape ahead of a Friday night showdown vs. Louisville.<\/p>\n

McGuire and Texas Tech transformed this year\u2019s roster through the transfer portal and invested a lot of money. And we mean a lot of money.<\/p>\n

Still, McGuire has to coach and the players have to play. The Red Raiders are 6-0 and ranked No. 7 in the country, atop the Big 12. McGuire is squarely in the hunt for Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n

Elko turned around Texas A&M last year after coming off the Jimbo Fisher era. The Aggies were competitive last season with an 8-5 record and they\u2019re much better this season.<\/p>\n

Elko is firmly in the Coach of the Year conversation as he has his team off to a 6-0 start. What could\u2019ve been a good season now looks like a year where the Aggies could win the SEC and make the College Football Playoff!<\/p>\n

\"Ohio(Adam Cairns | Columbus Dispatch | USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)<\/p>\n

It might be too easy to give Day the Coach of the Year award since Ohio State is rolling right now. But coming off a national championship, the Buckeyes were expected to take a slight step back.<\/p>\n

However, this is the No. 1 team in the country and sports a 6-0 record. They could very well go back to back this winter. With what they\u2019ve done so far this year, they might be better than 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joel Klatt revealed his midseason top five coaches for the Coach of the Year award, now that we\u2019re…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[24321,399,32689,120881,127029,398,396,397,127030,99],"class_list":["post-226858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-curt-cignetti","tag-football","tag-joey-mcguire-89-crowley","tag-mario-cristobal-88-columbus","tag-mike-elko-95-south-brunswick","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-ryan-day-97-manchester-central","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}