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Head coach AL Golden has spent two seasons at the University of Miami trying to pull the program from the rubble of an NCAA investigation.

Defensive coordinator Bob Diaco has molded the top-ranked Notre Dame defense.

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Head coach Darrell Hazell has Kent State University in the MAC title game with an outside shot at earning a BCS bowl berth.

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Mark Whipple, now a quarterbacks coach for the Browns, won a Division 1-AA national title with the University of Massachusetts in 1998.