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Ranking the college football coaching class of 2018: the good, the bad and the ugly

After three miserable years watching Jim McElwain's offenses further lay ruin to Florida's "Fun 'n' Gun" culture, the Gators faithful desperately wanted an offensive wizard to save them late in the fall of 2017.

Who would be more perfect for college football's biggest coaching vacancy than Chip Kelly, the understated and quirky genius who turned Oregon into a national title contender and flamed out at a couple of NFL stops?

The Florida private jet with an envoy of school representatives reportedly flew to New Hampshire to court Kelly, but there was also a sense that he could be a better personality fit for UCLA, which had

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