Coaching matters in football more than any other sport. Coaching matters even more in college football as you can outscheme your opponents on a weekly basis. We ranked the Top 5 coaches in college football from week to week and now it’s time for our final Coach of the Year Rankings.

#1 Gary Patterson, TCU Horned Frogs

Gary Patterson might not have been able to lead his Horned Frogs into the College Football Playoff, but it was a fantastic season for a TCU team that was expected to finish seventh in the Big 12. Patterson has solidified himself as an elite head coach and his team should have had a better fate.

#2 Rich Rodriguez, Arizona Wildcats

Rich Rod took Arizona to the Pac-12 Championship Game and although they were soundly defeated by Oregon, it was still a tremendous season. Rodriguez is years’ ahead of schedule in Tucson and the Wildcats are lucky that he’ll be around next season.

#3 Urban Meyer, Ohio State Buckeyes

This is probably Urban Meyer’s best coaching job in his illustrious career. He won the Big Ten Championship with a third-string quarterback and his team has been unstoppable in the last two months. Meyer is one of the best coaches in the game and this season erased all the bad feelings from last year’s loss to Michigan State in the Big Ten Championship Game.

#4 Jimbo Fisher, Florida State Seminoles

One of the toughest things to do in sports is win the games that you’re supposed to. Jimbo Fisher’s team is the only one in the nation that actually won every single game they were supposed to win. At times they haven’t looked impressive but if winning all your games was easy, someone else would have done it.

#5 Nick Saban, Alabama Crimson Tide

Nick Saban took a wide receiver and running back convert and helped make him into what will probably be an NFL quarterback. Blake Sims picked right up where A.J. McCarron left off and the Crimson Tide are back in national title contention. Saban navigated a brutal end of the season schedule and Alabama is the favorite to win another title.

Again, this isn’t a list of the best coaches in the country, it’s a list of which coaches have done the best job this season.