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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/silverhk on 2025-07-28 18:27:34+00:00.
I’m not talking here about Day at Ohio State, I’m asking about a situation where the first year a new coach has a losing record, then over the next three-four years actually built the team into a 1- or 2-loss, Top 20 program. I think there are a lot of coaches who can build those kinds of schools into fringe Top 25 teams, but I’m having trouble coming up with recent examples of any team that has been built into a Top 20 program where the coach did not have near-immediate success in their first year. Looking at coaches like Rhule, Fickell, and Freeze going into this year and curious about their mid-term prospects.
James Franklin might be one of the better examples of this, his first two years were 7-6, and the program has been pretty consistently Top 20 since.