Who will be the next college football coach who wins his first national title?

When the Ryan Day of the state Ohio raised the CFP National Championship Trophy on January 20 in Atlanta, he joined the exclusive Club of College soccer coaches, who claimed the ultimate price of sport.

The retirement from Nick Saban, the NFL departure by Jim Harbaugh and the shots by Jimbo Fisher and Mack Brown briefly reduced the number of active trainers with national titles to just two: Georgia's Kirby Smart and Clemsons Dabo Swinney. Day became the third after led the state of Ohio in a masterful run through the first 12-team college football playoffs. His name can be fired from the list of the most successful college trainers without a title.

Who will be the next trainer who will follow the day and win his first national title? Maybe the man day in Atlanta, Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman. The two coaches, whose teams lost in the semi -finals, Texas' Steve Sarkisian and James Franklin from Penn State are also tight.

The Oregon coach, Dan Lanning, led his team to an unbeaten regular season and a Big Ten title as a newcomer in the league and number 1 in the 12-team CFP. The playoff field also included Tennesses Josh Heupel and others, whose teams could soon be positioned for a title boost.

Here is a look at the coaches at the height of their first titles, a group of wildcard trainers who want to maintain a possible championship track, and some who were not too long ago on the day of the day, but have been back slid since.

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