ESPN updated its rankings of the top 10 coaches in college football on Friday morning and at least one analyst went with a surprising choice at No. 1.
North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick earned a first-place vote from analyst Kyle Bonagura. The 6-time Super Bowl Champion has yet to coach a game in college football, but Bonagura had his reasons for putting the Patriots legend in the top spot.
It’s worth noting that no other ESPN panelist surveyed for this ranking put Belichick in their top-10, so he ended up not making the final cut. However, Bonagura explained his vote in ESPN’s story. Here’s his breakdown of why he put Belichick at No. 1 on his list:
I guess it’s a matter of how we all interpreted the criteria for the rankings. We were asked to rank the best football coaches, and Belichick is the most successful coach in the history of the sport at its highest level. Personally, I find having won six Super Bowls more impressive — and a better indicator that he is a good coach — than anything anyone else on this list has accomplished by a significant margin. If the prompt was to ask who we would most want to start a program with or who has been the best college coach, my list would have been different. But we weren’t. We were asked to rank the best coaches, and somehow he’s behind multiple coaches with only one outright conference title on their résumés. Let’s not overthink this.
Bonagura’s vote was enough to put Belichick at No. 12, just behind the 10 coaches who made the list and LSU’s Brian Kelly.
Expectations are high for Belichick in his first year in Chapel Hill. North Carolina put significant resources toward its 2025 roster and is paying Belichick $10 million in annual salary.
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