Take Urban Meyer from Ohio State. How good is that coaching job without its big-name coach?
Our recruiting team ranked college football's easiest to toughest recruiting jobs, 1-65, in a package that highlights the best of the week from Insider.
You won't believe who is No. 1. (Spoiler alert: It's not Ohio State.)
Mel and Todd: Who will win the College Football Playoff?
Mel Kiper Jr. and Todd McShay take you through all three CFP games and lay out why they have different takes on who will win.
Alabama is the best 2015 CFP team... and would have won in 2014, too
In a review of all four 2015 playoff teams, Football Outsiders used 2014 Ohio State as the bar. How did this year's top four teams stack up? And which two 2015 teams would have had a terrific chance to have swept through the 2015 bracket?
How would you rank the CFP coaching staffs? (A hint: Bama is not No. 1)
Dabo Swinney, Nick Saban, Mark Dantonio and Bob Stoops -- four of the game's top coaches -- will match wits in the College Football Playoff. Though his team won't enter as the favorite, it's impossible to dismiss the job that Dantonio has done when you assess this quartet.
Alabama should have been ranked No. 1 by the CFP committee
Clemson remained unblemished throughout the season and picked up the College Football Playoff's top seed. But a number of indicators say Alabama was actually more deserving of the top spot, KC Joyner explains.
How all three Heisman finalists almost went to different schools
Looking back at the recruitment of Derrick Henry, Christian McCaffrey and Deshaun Watson, it's easy to see how all three could have ended up elsewhere in a parallel universe. Henry was supposed to be a Georgia Bulldog. McCaffrey took a visit to Duke -- where his brother Max is a standout receiver -- before settling on Stanford. Watson committed to Clemson as a high school sophomore -- but took a secret visit to Auburn at the 11th hour and got the heart rates of both fan bases going. A fun flashback to their high school evaluations and recruitments.