The Large 12 bid farewell to Oklahoma’s Brent Venables and Texas’ Steve Sarkisian after the 2023 season and welcomes in 5 new coaches for 2024 because the league undergoes one other makeover. Of the league’s 12 incumbent packages, 11 have the identical coach as they did in 2023. Houston is the lone exception as Willie Fritz comes over from Tulane to take over the Cougars.

Utah’s Kyle Whittingham has loved essentially the most success of all of the 4 coaches coming in from the Pac-12. Deion Sanders is definite to seize headlines as he leads Large 12 constitution member Colorado again into the league it helped create. Then there’s Arizona and Arizona State, each led by coaches wanting to show themselves as Energy 4 winners in Brent Brennan of the Wildcats and Kenny Dillingham of the Solar Devils.

Elsewhere, there are a handful of well-established names who’re accustomed to success and revered all through the occupation. Although the Large 12 does not boast any apparent nationwide title contenders, it is bought loads of stable packages led by confirmed tacticians. That was on full show when the league produced eight of the highest 30 coaches within the 2024 CBS Sports activities Energy 4 coach rankings. It is a quantity on par with the mighty Large Ten and SEC (every has eight of the highest 30) and above the ACC (which fields 5 of the highest 30).

Under is the place all 16 Large 12 coaches rank, as beforehand voted on by the CBS Sports activities and 247Sports staffs.   

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