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Ranking every SEC football coach ahead of SEC Media Days: Where does Butch Jones stand?

By Caleb Calhoun

KNOXVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 15: Head coach Nick Saban of the Alabama Crimson Tide shakes hands with head coach Butch Jones of the Tennessee Volunteers after their 49-10 win at Neyland Stadium on October 15, 2016 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
KNOXVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 15: Head coach Nick Saban of the Alabama Crimson Tide shakes hands with head coach Butch Jones of the Tennessee Volunteers after their 49-10 win at Neyland Stadium on October 15, 2016 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) /
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NASHVILLE, TN – SEPTEMBER 05: Head coach Butch Jones of the University of Tennessee Volunteers yells during the first half of a game against the Bowling Green Falcons at Nissan Stadium on September 5, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Frederick Breedon/Getty Images)
NASHVILLE, TN – SEPTEMBER 05: Head coach Butch Jones of the University of Tennessee Volunteers yells during the first half of a game against the Bowling Green Falcons at Nissan Stadium on September 5, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Frederick Breedon/Getty Images) /

Butch Jones enters SEC Media Days in his fifth season as the Tennessee Vols’ head coach. Where does he rank among all Southeastern Conference head coaches?

The beginning of SEC Media Days in 2017 includes no new head coaches, but it does have a new coach taking the reigns full-time as Ed Orgeron had his interim tag removed from the LSU Tigers.

So as we do our annual ranking of coaches in the Southeastern Conference, it’ll only have one person different from what we had going into last year since Les Mile is no longer around.

However, that doesn’t mean nothing changed.

Our ranking of coaches in the conference includes numerous factors. It’s not just their ability to call games on the field.

We include recruiting, the state of the program from where they found it, and what its future looks like.

The combination of these things resulted in a significant drop for some coaches this year and a slight rise for quite a few others.

Of course, there are a few things that didn’t change, and one of them comes as no shock to anybody.

But with the conference loaded with middle of the pack teams last year, it was harder to separate the coaches this year than ever before.

Still, we did our best using the criteria we could. So with Media Days underway, let’s see how the leaders taking the stand stack up against each other.

Here is a ranking of all 14 SEC coaches heading into the 2017 college football season.

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