Ah, jocktocracy. It’s a hell of a way to run a non-Ivy League university, but look at the USNews rankings of the best colleges in the nation, and you’ll find some of the best college football programs. Their coaches aren’t getting paid millions of dollars just for winning football games, after all.

Check out these Top 50 teams and coaches: Notre Dame (20; Charlie Weis), Michigan (T24; Lloyd Carr), USC (T27; Pete Carroll), Texas (T47; Mack Brown) and the national champions from Florida (T47, Urban Meyer). Wouldn’t you like to have those guys in your “five”?

Then you have coaches like Navy’s Paul Johnson. He doesn’t have nearly the same talent pool to work with, yet Johnson’s triple option “flexbone” scheme narrowly lost to Boston College at last year’s Meineke Bowl. For that, and for going 31-14 ATS the past four seasons, Johnson deserves even more praise than the aforementioned five.