Not to pick on Auburn but...Gus Malzahn is in the same tier of coach as Harbaugh or - more relevant here - Chris Petersen?
Look at something that will blow your minds:
Gene Chizik, four years, 33-19, one SEC title, one national title, one unbeaten season
Malzahn, four years, 35-18, one SEC title, one national title game appearance.
Terry Bowden, 5 1/2, 47-17, one SEC West title, one unbeaten season (in Bowden's last 4 1/2 years, he was still
36-17, which is one game better than Malzahn - and remember that six of those 17 losses came in his last
eight games as coach)
In his last four years:
Tommy Tuberville, 34-16, nothing (but had an unbeaten season in 2004, right before his last four years)
I mean, how does this somehow make Malzahn BETTER than his company here? And that first year had enough flukes to open up a parasitology lab, most notably the Georgia and Alabama miracles. His record is a game behind Terry Bowden and only 1 1/2 ahead of Chizik.
Does any sane person think Gene Chizik is in the Barry Alvarez tier?
Malzahn's SEC record since the infamous Kick Six game is 12-13. That's not Barry Alvarez tier, that's Houston Nutt SEC coaching right there.
He's lost to every team in the SEC West at least once, and it only took him three years.
We're talking about Harbaugh hype but THIS one......I mean, the guy is an 8-4 regular season coach. Nothing wrong with that at Auburn but......he's gotten a lot of mileage out of two plays for Pete's sake.