{"id":55609,"date":"2025-07-11T01:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T01:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/55609\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T01:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T01:46:09","slug":"where-the-sporting-news-ranks-shane-beamer-among-college-footballs-top-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/55609\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Sporting News ranks Shane Beamer among college football&#8217;s top coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/ncaa-football\/news\/ranking-college-football-coaches-1-136-2025-season\/9a98433ded41c4d21d2650b5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Sporting News released its 2025 preseason rankings of all 136 FBS football head coaches<\/a>. Following a strong 9-win campaign in 2024, South Carolina headman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/south-carolina-gamecocks\/news\/south-carolina-football-ea-sports-college-football-26-shane-beamer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Beamer<\/a> moved up. However, the fourth-year, top-20 effort didn\u2019t improve Beamer\u2019s standing much.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Sporting News, Shane Beamer is the No. 40 overall head coach in the country. That marked a one-spot improvement from Beamer\u2019s place in last preseason\u2019s rankings. Because he was outside of the top 25, the outlet didn\u2019t explain its reasoning behind Beamer\u2019s ranking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gcon3.com\/ayn3a9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Be in the know about all things Gamecocks for just $1 for 7 days\u2014lock in this special offer!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beamer\u2019s spot puts him ninth in the SEC. Beamer has beaten four coaches ahead of him on the list, including Clemson\u2019s Dabo Swinney (3), Tennessee\u2019s Josh Heupel (11), Missouri\u2019s Eli Drinkwitz (21), and Texas A&amp;M\u2019s Mike Elko (26). Three of those (Swinney, Drinkwitz, and Elko) lost to Beamer in 2024. Also notably ahead of Beame is North Carolina head coach Bill Belichick, who has yet to coach a collegiate game, and a pair of coaches who led their teams to losing records last season in Utah\u2019s Ty Whittingham (13), Oklahoma State\u2019s Mike Gundy (27), Florida State\u2019s Mike Norvell (28), Wisconsin\u2019s Luke Fickell (29), NC State\u2019s Dave Doeren (35), and Kansas\u2019 Lance Liepold (38).<\/p>\n<p>This season, Beamer will face off against Swinney, Drinkwitz, and Elko again and also will lead the Gamecocks against Brent Pry (62) and Virginia Tech, Clark Lea (60) and Vanderbilt, Mark Stoops (45) and Kentucky, Brian Kelly (9) and LSU, Brent Venables (41) and Oklahoma, Kalen DeBoer (6) and Alabama, Lane Kiffin (10) and Ole Miss, and Tim Beck (103) and Coastal Carolina. South Carolina State is an FCS program, so head coach Chennis Berry was not included in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>So far, through four seasons at the helm in Columbia, Beamer owns the program record for wins in a coach\u2019s first four years. His 29 victories are one more than Steve Spurrier\u2019s 28 from 2005-2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently, the Sporting News released its 2025 preseason rankings of all 136 FBS football head coaches. 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