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The List: 125 college football coaches ranked by rap name power

There are 125 FBS head coaches. Not all of them have names that would also make for great rap careers. But they’re all being ranked accordingly anyway.

Jared Wickerham

The American economy has not collapsed completely yet. But if it does, we may have to all make our living rapping.

Some of us will be more prepared for this from birth by having a given name that already doubles as an MC handle. Some of those people will be football coaches, and some of them are already set for a stage name and ready to battle rap.

(Finally, one list where Texas football is still number one.)

1. Mack Brown

2. Jerry Kill

3. Al Golden

4. Charlie Strong

5. Sonny Dykes

6. Bronco Mendenhall

7. Rich Rodriguez

8. Larry Coker

9. Hugh Freeze

10. Frank Beamer

11. Doc Holliday

12. Dabo Swinney

13. Paul Rhoads

14. Paul Petrino

15. Butch Jones

16. June Jones

17. Kliff Kingsbury

18. Urban Meyer

19. Willie Taggart

20. Jimbo Fisher

21. P.J. Fleck

22. David Bailiff

23. Troy Calhoun

24. Norm Chow

25. Rocky Long

26. Bobby Hauck

27. Ron English

28. Pete Lembo

29. Tommy Tuberville

30. David Cutcliffe

31. Ruffin McNeil

32. Bo Pelini

33. Nick Saban

34. Darrell Hazell

35. Rick Stockstill

36. Will Muschamp

37. Mike Leach

38. Bill Blankenship

39. Jim L. Mora

40. Bret Bielema

41. Les Miles

42. Mike Riley

43. Mike MacIntyre

44. Justin Fuente

45. Don Treadwell

46. Bob Davie

47. Frank Solich

48. Mike London

49. Bobby Petrino

50. Paul Chryst

51. Mike Gundy

52. Mark Richt

53. Paul Haynes

54. Matt Rhule

55. Joey Jones

56. Mark Dantonio

57. Lane Kiffin

58. Mark Stoops

59. Paul Pasqualoni

60. Ron Turner

61. Tony Levine

62. Curtis Johnson

63. Rod Carey

64. Steve Addazio

65. Trent Miles

66. Steve Sarkisian

67. Bill O’Brien

68. Dave Clawson

69. Gus Malzahn

70. Garrick McGee

71. Dan McCarney

72. Mark Helfrich

73. Carl Pelini

74. Larry Blakeney

75. Dave Doeren

76. Dan Enos

77. Scott Shafer

78. Randy Edsall

79. Todd Berry

80. Todd Monken

81. Jim Grobe

82. Kyle Flood

83. Bob Stoops

84. Kirk Ferentz

85. Steve Spurrier

86. Paul Johnson

87. Doug Martin

88. Jim McElwain

89. Bill Snyder

90. Larry Fedora

91. Art Briles

92. Charlie Weis

93. Dana Holgorsen

94. Ken Niumatololo

95. Mark Hudspeth

96. Matt Campbell

97. Gary Patterson

98. George O’Leary

99. Rich Ellerson

100. James Franklin

101. Ron Caragher

102. Dan Mullen

103. Bryan Harsin

104. Matt Wells

105. Dave Christensen

106. Charley Molnar

107. Brian Kelly

108. Pat Fitzgerald

109. David Shaw

110. Sean Kugler

111. Chris Petersen

112. Brady Hoke

113. Brian Polian

114. Jeff Quinn

115. Kevin Wilson

116. Kevin Sumlin

117. Tim DeRuyter

118. Tim Beckman

119. Terry Bowden

120. Dennis Franchione

121. Skip Holtz

122. Gary Andersen

123. Todd Graham

124. Gary Pinkel

125. Kyle Whittingham

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