Georgia's Kirby Smart is the best coach in college football. But five different SEC basketball coaches have taken teams to Final Four.

There's also the potential second-round matchup with 7-seed Ole Miss, pitting Texas Tech's current head coach against the program's previous two leaders Chris Beard and Mark Adams.

and Mark Adams reached the Sweet 16 as a No. 3 seed in 2022. Texas Tech was also tied for 10th in an anonymous poll by CBS that asked college basketball coaches which programs they believe have ...

Current Texas Tech coach Grant McCasland facing the two previous Tech coaches of Chris Beard and Mark Adams would be too much to handle.

But Kirby Smart is the best coach in college football. Advantage: Football. Kentucky: Basketball coach Mark Pope averaged ... different programs – Texas, Texas Tech and Little Rock – to ...