American tennis star Amanda Anisimova leaves fans convinced she drank beer mid-match with mystery beverage

American tennis star Amanda Anisimova was enjoying a beverage during her Round of 32 match in the Cincinnati Open on Monday night. A world-class athlete replenishing themselves during competition is, of course, normal behavior, but at first glance it appeared that Anisimova was consuming a drink that has the opposite effect of rehydration.

After dropping the first game of the final set in her match against Alex Eala, the Tennis Channel broadcast showed viewers at home a clip of Anisimova taking a few sips of a mystery beverage from a plastic cup she took out from underneath a towel on her bench during the second set.

The fact that the mysterious beverage was being drunk out of a plastic cup, one that Anisimova was trying her best to hide, made fans understandably assume that she was sipping on a cold beer.

It wasn't just fans who shared the thought, either, as broadcasters Brett Haber and Lindsay Davenport questioned what exactly the beverage was.

"Could be apple cider, Brett," Davenport said.

"I mean, I would never suggest that a player was drinking a beer in the middle of a match, but that’s certainly what it looked like," Haber remarked.

Coupled with the fact that it was unclear what the beverage was and that players are prohibited from consuming alcohol during a match, Haber was sure to cover his tracks.

"It could be non-alcoholic. It could be cider. It could be anything. We don’t know," Haber said.

Anisimova, 24, ultimately cruised in the third and final set, winning 6-2 to advance to the Round of 16. With fans convinced that she was drinking a beer during the match that she went on to win, it only added to the fun on social media.

"I don’t know if I have ever seen anything more nails than Amanda Anisimova just drilling a beer mid game and then winning the match," a fan wrote on X. "Beers have never been more back."

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Some fans guessed that it was Red Bull, or a similar-looking energy drink, that was in Anisimova's plastic cup, and those fans were correct, according to Haber.

"We can confirm via one of our courtside camera operators that Anisimova asked for and was delivered a Red Bull. That is the mystery bevvie," he explained on the broadcast.

Sipping on a Red Bull mid-match is far less intriguing than sipping on a cold beer, but the moment still made for some fun on social media and across the tennis world.

Anisimova will take on Linda Noskova on Wednesday.

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The 'fiddly and frustrating' work removing 10,000 coins from Giant's Causeway columns

Conservationists remove the equivalent of 10,000 coins that had been wedged into the Giant's Causeway's pillars.

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NYC drivers shell out $9 congestion toll. City admits it failed to improve air quality

A lofty New York City toll slapped on drivers in an effort to reduce congestion and improve air quality produced nearly no change in pollution after its first year, according to the city’s own analysis.

The New York City Health Department's report, released Friday, examined four traffic-related pollutants inside Manhattan's Congestion Relief Zone since the $9 toll was implemented last year. Researchers found that the city’s overall pollution levels remained largely unchanged, with no statistically significant improvement attributable to the toll.

Still, officials in the Big Apple touted the study as the city's most comprehensive look at congestion pricing's effect on air quality to date.

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They pointed to reduced traffic, public transit improvements, less traffic noise and other benefits as positive outcomes from the toll being implemented in January 2025. All similar things that New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul hailed in a June 2023 speech when she backed congestion pricing.

Despite an 11% drop in traffic since implementation, the Health Department said vehicles account for only about 10% of the city’s pollution, meaning fewer cars alone is not expected to significantly improve overall air quality. Unlike many parts of the country, where cars and trucks are a major source of air pollution, New York City's emissions come largely from other sources.

The city's dense concentration of buildings, which burn fuel for heat and hot water, along with emissions from restaurants and power plants that supply the most populated U.S. city with electricity, are reasons for its poor air quality.

Findings in the recent report could backfire and provide fresh ammunition to critics who have blasted congestion pricing as an expensive burden on commuters, small businesses and working families in America's largest city.

The New York City Health Department and Hochul’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

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New York City’s congestion pricing toll applies to passenger vehicles entering the Congestion Relief Zone in Manhattan at or below 60th Street. The lofty $9 toll applies to E-ZPass users once a day during peak hours, which are weekdays from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m., and weekends from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

All other off-peak hours require a $2.25 toll.

Those who do not have E-ZPass could face toll-by-mail rates that are about 50% more than the typical charge.

President Donald Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy have been among the program's most prominent opponents, with Duffy previously calling the toll a "slap in the face to working class Americans and small business owners."

The Trump administration also attempted to withdraw federal approval for the Biden-era program, but a federal judge ruled in March that the effort was unlawful.

Following that ruling, Gov. Hochul called congestion pricing a "once-in-a-lifetime success story," saying its first year brought "reduced gridlock, faster trips, safer streets, and cleaner air" while generating funding for mass transit upgrades.

"Congestion pricing is legal, it works, and it is here to stay," Hochul said in a March 3 statement.

For now, the toll remains, traffic is down, but the city’s first-year data show no statistically significant improvement in air quality.

Some online critics pounced on the findings, dragging up a 2023 speech where Hochul promised: "With congestion pricing New Yorkers have a lot to lose. How about 15 to 20% fewer vehicles in the central business district every single day? Less noise, less honking, less gridlock."

"How about less air pollution, lower carbon emissions, lower speeds, fewer crashes?" she went on. "I don't mind losing that."

"Kathy Hochul’s congestion pricing did not significantly improve air quality in Manhattan like she promised it would. Who could’ve possibly seen this coming?" wrote the popular right-wing X account called Libs of TikTok.

Another account noted: "Hochul looked right into the camera and swore this toll would scrub the air and let kids with asthma breathe easier. When they wrap a new tax in an environmental bow, the only thing that ever improves is the government's balance sheet."

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Royal Parks said a male deer approached a picnic group looking for food before attacking the man.

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Progressive Minneapolis mayor's viral hip-hop moves spark 'humiliation ritual' mockery online

Social media is erupting over a viral video of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey showing off his awkward dance moves while attending the Black Entrepreneur State Fair, with the clip quickly spreading across X as users call the dance a "cringe" performance.

The clip, posted on TikTok last week, shows Frey moving his hips and shoulders to hip-hop music while wearing sunglasses and interacting with an emcee on the dance floor, prompting a wave of mockery from conservative commentators.

"Why are they always like this? This is almost worse than when he pretended the Somali food he was choking down his throat was delicious. He’s a walking humiliation ritual," said conservative commentator Benny Johnson.

"What an embarrassment," said one user.

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"I’d honestly prefer that he defund the police," joked commentator Emily Jashinsky.

"One of the worst parts of Democrats becoming the party of theater kids isn’t just that they’re destroying American cities, it’s that they were clearly the worst and least talented theater kids, which is why they went into politics," said Outkick writer Ian Miller.

"The world is full of white liberals willing to play the fool," wrote a user.

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"Mayor Frey is out here dancing like his state his city is not in complete disarray and plagued with rampant fraud at every level. His ability to put on blinders and just vibe is unmatched," said X host Mario Nawfal.

"Cringe: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey looking like the classic white guy dancing caricature," said one user.

Fox News Digital reached out to Frey's office for comment.

The annual Black Entrepreneur State Fair, a weeklong celebration of Black-owned businesses, was held Aug. 9-15 at Midtown Global Market in Minneapolis.

The video comes amid a string of Democratic lawmakers and candidates drawing online mockery over attempts to connect with voters through dance and other lighthearted performances, with critics branding the moments awkward and bizarre.

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Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed also faced criticism after a campaign video parodying the children's series "Blue’s Clues" to explain voting by mail resurfaced online.

Wearing a green-striped shirt, he recreated the show’s "Mail Time" song and dance, while pulling an "Abdul for Senate" ballot from a mailbox to explain ballot deadlines and voting procedures in the style of the children’s program.

He ended the video by adapting the show’s "Blue’s Skidoo" catchphrase to "Vote ski-doo. We can too!" and disappearing into a campaign-themed picture frame.

The internet piled on El-Sayed, with critics calling the video "the most cringeworthy political advert" and "disgusting."

Fox News Digital’s Hannah Brennan and Peter D'Abrosca contributed to this report.

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iCloud Private Relay leaks can expose your real IP

If you pay for iCloud+ and use Safari, you may have turned on iCloud Private Relay for an extra layer of privacy. Apple designed the feature to prevent websites from seeing your actual IP address and exact location.

Now, security researchers have found three ways that certain WebKit features can slip outside that protection.

Researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk discovered that DNS prefetching, a WebAuthn feature connected to passkeys and WebTransport can bypass WebKit's proxy configuration. Two of those methods can expose your real internet protocol (IP) address. The other can reveal information about the DNS servers your device is using.

What makes this especially concerning is that these are legitimate browser technologies. A website does not necessarily need to convince you to download a suspicious file or install a shady app for the network requests to occur.

Here's how these iCloud Private Relay leaks work, who may be affected and what you can do to better protect your privacy.

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ARE APPLE DEVICES SPYING? WHAT YOUR IPHONE TRACKS

Apple's iCloud Private Relay is available to iCloud+ subscribers and works with Safari browsing. When you turn it on, Apple sends your Safari requests through two separate internet relays. Your internet provider can see your IP address, but your DNS records are encrypted. A second relay then gives the website a temporary IP address instead of your actual one.

The design keeps any single party from seeing both who you are and which websites you visit. That makes Private Relay useful if you want to reduce the amount of location and browsing information websites can collect about you. However, the newly documented WebKit behavior creates paths around that relay.

The researchers identified three separate mechanisms. Each works a little differently.

Browsers often try to make websites load faster by looking up the addresses of links before you click them. This process is called DNS prefetching. Normally, you would expect those lookups to follow the same privacy path as the rest of your browsing.

The researchers found that WebKit can instead send these DNS requests through your device's normal DNS connection. As a result, a website could see DNS requests coming from your real network instead of the proxy. The issue has been available on iOS since iOS 26.0, according to the researchers.

This does not directly hand over everything you are doing online. However, it can expose network information that Private Relay was expected to shield.

The second issue involves WebAuthn, the web standard used by passkeys. Some companies operate several websites and want the same passkey to work across those related domains. WebAuthn has a feature that lets a device verify whether those websites belong together. To do that, the operating system may contact a website directly to retrieve a small verification file.

According to the researchers, that request happens outside Safari's normal proxied network path. Therefore, the destination server can receive your device's real IP address even while Private Relay is active.

Importantly, this research does not show that an attacker can steal your passkey through this flaw. The privacy exposure comes from the network request used during verification. So, there is no reason to abandon passkeys because of this finding.

WebTransport gives websites a faster way to maintain low-latency connections with servers. Certain interactive web services can benefit from that speed.

However, researchers found that WebKit can establish a WebTransport connection directly from your device instead of sending it through the configured proxy.

When that happens, the server on the other end can see your actual IP address. Private Relay does not intercept that connection because it occurs outside the network path Private Relay normally protects. WebTransport became publicly available on iOS with iOS 26.4.

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The findings matter most if you rely on Safari with iCloud Private Relay to hide your IP address. They can also affect privacy-focused browsers or apps that use WebKit's proxy configuration. The researchers specifically examined WebKit-based proxy browsers on iOS and macOS. That means the issue reaches beyond one particular browser feature.

The researchers say VPNs do not suffer from these specific WebKit proxy leaks because a VPN tunnels network traffic at the system level instead of relying on WebKit's browser-level proxy configuration.

That does not mean a VPN eliminates every form of online tracking. Websites can still recognize you through account logins, cookies and other signals.

If you use Private Relay, there is no reason to panic or immediately switch it off. Most Safari browsing still follows Private Relay's normal privacy architecture. Apple says the service is designed to prevent websites from seeing your IP address and exact location during Safari browsing. The problem is that certain WebKit features can create exceptions.

A website using one of these mechanisms could potentially learn your real IP address or information about your DNS connection. You may not see an obvious warning when that happens.

Your IP address usually will not reveal your home address. Still, it can expose your internet provider and approximate location. It can also give websites another identifier to connect with other information they have collected about you. For someone using Private Relay specifically because they do not want websites seeing that information, that matters.

We reached out to Apple for comment on the researchers' findings but did not hear back before our publication deadline.

There are several steps you can take while this WebKit behavior remains a concern.

Turning Private Relay off would remove its protection from Safari traffic that currently does travel through Apple's relay system.

On iPhone, you can check it by going to: Settings > your name > iCloud > Private Relay.

Apple also lets you choose between maintaining your general location or using only your country and time zone.

Install new iOS, iPadOS and macOS updates when Apple releases them.

On iPhone: Settings > General > Software Update.

Apple currently lists iOS 26.6 as its latest iPhone software release. Security and privacy fixes often arrive through operating system updates, so automatic updates can help you receive future fixes more quickly.

If hiding your real IP address is especially important to you, a reputable VPN offers a different type of protection. The researchers specifically note that VPNs are not affected by these three WebKit proxy leaks because the traffic is tunneled at the system level. Keep in mind that a VPN cannot make you invisible online. Websites can still recognize you if you sign in or provide identifying information. For the best VPN software, see my expert review of the best VPNs for browsing the web privately on your Windows, Mac, Android and iOS devices at CyberGuy.com.

The WebAuthn finding may sound alarming because passkeys are involved. However, the researchers describe an IP-address exposure caused by a related network request. They do not describe attackers stealing the passkey itself. Passkeys remain one of the stronger options available for protecting accounts from phishing and stolen passwords.

The browser developer Psylo has already changed how its browser handles the three mechanisms. Psylo version 1.3.1 blocks DNS prefetch hints while WebTransport and WebAuthn are disabled by default. Users can turn those features back on for individual sites when needed. The changes show that browser developers can take steps to close these particular paths.

Privacy features work best when you understand what they actually protect. I still see value in iCloud Private Relay because it gives Safari users meaningful protection with almost no effort. However, I would not treat it as a replacement for a full-device VPN when keeping your real IP hidden is critical. What concerns me most here is how invisible these exceptions can be. You can turn on a privacy setting, see that it is enabled and reasonably assume every relevant connection follows it. These findings show why the plumbing underneath matters as much as the switch you see in Settings. Apple has built privacy into the way it markets the iPhone. That makes discoveries like this especially important because users should know where those protections have limits.

Would knowing that a website could potentially bypass Private Relay make you trust the feature less, or would you keep using it while waiting for Apple to address the loopholes? Let us know by writing to us at CyberGuy.com.

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Foxes beat Notts to reach One-Day Cup final

Leicestershire reach a second One-Day Cup final in four years as they overcome Notts Outlaws by 23 runs in their semi-final at Grace Road.

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Blue Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Jr gets kneed in the head during chaotic play, leaves game

Unfortunately for Toronto Blue Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Jr., baseball can sometimes be a contact sport.

In the bottom of the sixth inning during the Blue Jays’ 3-1 win over the New York Yankees on Friday at the Rogers Centre, Guerrero took a knee to the head in a chaotic play.

The Blue Jays were trailing 1-0 with runners on first and second base with one out and George Springer up to bat. Nathan Lukes was on second base, while Guerrero was on first.

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Springer rolled over on Gerrit Cole’s fastball and hit a weak ground ball to third baseman Ryan McMahon. The Yankees’ third baseman charged the ball, stepped on third base, retiring Lukes, and fired to first base to try to complete the inning-ending double play.

Instead, McMahon threw it in the dirt, and first baseman Luis Garcia Jr. was unable to make the catch. When Garcia tried to pick the ball out of the dirt, his glove flew off and the ball went away from him. Guerrero looked to capitalize on the blunder and took off for third base.

Garcia finally recovered, grabbed the ball and fired a bullet to third base. The problem? No one was covering the bag.

Yankees shortstop George Lombard Jr. was a couple of paces off the bag, and Garcia’s throw went into foul territory. As Lombard went to pursue the ill-advised throw, he ran into Guerrero and kneed him in the head, dislodging his helmet.

Despite looking dazed, Guerrero scampered home to tie the game at 1-1. After scoring, he bent over and received help from his teammates as he made his way to the dugout. Guerrero was removed from the game after the collision.

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Manager John Schneider said Guerrero had "a little bit of a headache" after the collision.

"Kind of precautionary right now," Schneider said of the decision to remove Guerrero. "We'll see how he is tomorrow."

McMahon and Garcia were both charged with errors on the play.

"Just didn't work out, man," McMahon said of the play. "Obviously led to a couple of runs for them and that hurts."

Guerrero, who signed a 14-year, $500 million contract extension with the Blue Jays last season, has had a down year. The six-time All-Star is hitting .263 with just seven home runs and 46 RBI.

The lack of power is astounding, as he has hit at least 23 home runs in every full season of his career. He has not hit a home run at home this year.

While he might not be providing the thump the Blue Jays are used to, he still anchors the middle of their lineup. Losing him would be a significant blow to a Blue Jays team that is in pursuit of the third Wild-Card spot in the American League.

The Blue Jays (60-64) will play the Yankees (68-54) in the second game of their three-game series on Saturday at 3:07 p.m. ET and will hope to have their star first baseman in the lineup.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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'Fury' at Tarling death as cycling union calls for better helmets

The cyclists' union expresses "fury" over the death of British rider Fin Tarling during Friday's stage of the Volta a Portugal.

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'I shot Mr Thompson'- What it was like inside court as Mangione pleaded guilty

It marked the first time a court had heard Mangione describe how he committed a crime that garnered worldwide attention.

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Police seize cocaine bricks with stickers of Norwegian soccer star Erling Haaland all over them

Norwegian soccer star Erling Haaland was already a big star, seeing as he plays for Manchester City in the Premier League, but his profile rose even more thanks to a strong World Cup showing and the way he embraced American culture.

You'd think that would be enough to say, "Yeah, this dude has made it," but I think a more recent incident is proof that he has "made it."

Is anyone really a global superstar until their face winds up plastered all over a seized shipment of cocaine somewhere in South America?

No. Not in my book.

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But Erling Haaland has hit the big times after police in Ecuador seized over a thousand pounds of packaged cocaine that had stickers with his face on it.

The 370 packages of Haaland-faced booger sugar were found in the false bottom of a truck that anti-narcotics agents pulled over on the Pan-American Highway.

According to The New York Post, the driver of the vehicle carrying the drugs was arrested (probably a good call), but he didn't explain why Haaland's mug had been plastered all over his shipment.

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However, it is known that criminal organizations slap the famous names and visages of celebrities and athletes on their "stuff" as a way of making it known which criminal network it came from and who the client is.

Also, maybe they do it so they have something else aside from drugs to talk about. If they hand someone a brick of cocaine with an R2-D2 sticker on it, they could be like, "Hey, what did you think of the sequel trilogy? It sucked, right?"

Hey, it can't just be all drug talk all the time. Even these guys have to have interests outside of work.

So being deemed famous enough to be on an illicit drug shipment? That's big.

Haaland is not the only World Cup star to get the drug-packaging treatment. Argentine captain and global superstar Lionel Messi has also wound up on packaging.

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GB teenager Nowacki wins dramatic European gold

British teenager Filip Nowacki claims a dramatic gold in the men's 200m breaststroke final at the European Aquatics Championships in Paris.

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Ranking the ten best college football coaches in the country ahead of the 2026 season

With the changes happening in college football over the last half decade, most notably NIL and the transfer portal, the proliferation of talent in the game has been as balanced as ever.

With that, you could make the argument that coaches mean more than they ever have before, since it requires more strategy than just rolling the ball out and letting your 22 five-stars "talent" their way to victory.

Despite legends like Nick Saban calling it quits a few years ago, college football is in great hands with some phenomenal coaches among its ranks.

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Speaking of which, I thought today would be as good a day as any to rank the ten best coaches in college football right now.

This list is obviously subjective, but some of the factors I'm weighing are: total resume, recent success, and whether they have overachieved or underachieved relative to the resources they've been given.

With that said, let's dive right in.

We start this list off with a man who, five years ago, probably would have been comfortably within the top five: Lincoln Riley.

The USC head coach is heading into his fifth season in Los Angeles, and if you asked most Trojan fans, they would probably admit he has underperformed with regard to the expectations they had when he arrived.

Ironically enough, his first year at Southern Cal was his best, as the Men of Troy won 11 games and were a fourth quarter collapse away from making it to the College Football Playoff.

Since then, it's been tough sledding for Riley, but last year should provide some hope to fans of the program, as the 42-year-old pulled off what was perhaps his best coaching job since leaving Oklahoma and guided USC to a nine-win season while unlocking the potential of quarterback Jayden Maiava.

Heading into 2026, Riley and Maiava will look to finally send USC to the CFP, and it seems like the pieces are in place for that to happen.

If it does, I expect Riley to shoot back up this ranking come next season.

When it comes to "doing more with less," there are few who can top what head coach Clark Lea has done while at Vanderbilt (I can think of one other, but we will talk about him later).

When Lea arrived in Nashville in 2021, he proclaimed that he would have Vandy competing for SEC and national championships.

The whole college football world pointed and laughed, and rightly so, because the Commodores had long been a doormat in the SEC save for a few seasons with James Franklin at the helm.

Fast forward just five short years, and Lea has done exactly what he said he would, giving Vanderbilt its first ten-win season in school history and having the 'Dores within a stone's throw of the College Football Playoff.

For all his accomplishments on the field, he's done just as well on the recruiting trail, landing the program's first five-star in quarterback Jared Curtis.

Kind of unbelievable for anyone who knows anything about Vandy, and if he's able to repeat his success over the next couple of years without Diego Pavia as his quarterback, it will only strengthen my belief that Lea is one of the best coaches in America.

You could almost consider this spot for Kyle Whittingham a lifetime achievement award, but that would do a disservice to just how good of a coach he still is.

The man was an absolute machine while coaching the Utah Utes, guiding them through conference realignment and an ever-evolving college football world, racking up several of the best seasons in school history in the process.

He's the winningest coach in Utah history, and his defensive prowess and penchant for developing unheralded recruits into NFL Draft picks is the stuff of legend.

This past offseason, Whittingham left the friendly confines of Salt Lake City and headed east to Ann Arbor, where he will hope to instill some stability to a wildly chaotic Michigan program.

It's a testament to Whittingham that he continues to end up on lists like this year after year, and it proves that he's a rare combination of talent and longevity.

The Wolverines should be in good hands with Whittingham at the helm.

College football fans disagree on a lot, but there may not be a more universally hated name outside of Baton Rouge than Lane Kiffin.

His antics have rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, particularly regarding his most recent breakup with Ole Miss, but there is no question the man is a brilliant football coach.

Kiffin's offensive acumen knows no equal, and he's regarded as one of the best X's and O's guys on that side of the ball in quite some time, but he makes this list for more than just that reason alone.

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The former Rebels head coach turned Ole Miss from an afterthought in the SEC to a national power, and by the time of his unceremonious exit, had them in a position to legitimately win a CFP title.

He's such a good head coach that he had people actually believing that it was just as easy to win a championship at Ole Miss as it would be to win one at LSU or Florida.

That fact is not lost on me, but the only reason he isn't any higher is because he hasn't actually gone out and won the thing yet.

Few have, to be sure, but Kiffin has a chance to rocket near the top of this list should he win even one natty while on the bayou.

Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian is a lot like Lane Kiffin in many ways, so the two are ranked right next to each other for a reason.

Sark has access to a lot more resources and talent at Texas than Kiffin did while he was at Ole Miss, and has been far more consistent as a result.

He is considered one of the top offensive play callers in the game and consistently has the Longhorns in the national championship conversation year after year.

It will be interesting to see how he handles the expectations this year and how he coaches quarterback Arch Manning through another year of Heisman hype, but I believe Sark will be up for the challenge.

His recruiting prowess deserves mention as well, as Texas has always had the resources to get whoever it wants, but Sark has been able to unlock that in a way that has given Texas one of the most talented rosters since he's arrived.

When Brian Kelly jumped ship for LSU in 2021, many believed it was because he had gotten Notre Dame to its ceiling as a program in the modern landscape of college football.

Marcus Freeman proved that the Irish still had room to grow, and has lifted the program to new heights, both on the field and on the recruiting trail.

Notre Dame made it all the way to the national championship game two seasons ago, and after finishing in the top 10 in the AP Poll last season is projected to be a top-five team this coming season as well, showing Freeman's ability to keep the Irish consistently elite.

He has been lauded for his ability to coach elite defenses dating back to his days as a coordinator, and it shows in Notre Dame's ability to keep churning out top-flight units every season.

The fact that he has the Irish recruiting in the top five is noteworthy as well, which was thought to be almost impossible in the age of NIL.

Freeman is very young, so he will only continue to improve as he gains more experience.

4. Dan Lanning (Oregon)

Another brilliant, young defensive mind, Dan Lanning has the Oregon Ducks absolutely rolling since arriving in 2022.

Hailing from the Kirby Smart coaching tree, Lanning has been aces in Eugene pretty much from day one.

The Ducks have won at least 10 games every year of Lanning's tenure, as he has pretty much accomplished everything short of winning a national championship for them.

He is a recruiting wizard, which makes sense given his ties to Smart, and his chops on the trail coupled with Oregon's much-publicized resources have turned the Ducks from great recruiters to full-on Death Star status.

Another underrated aspect of Lanning's game is his ability to identify and hire elite coordinators, as he has had three move on to head coaching jobs since he donned an Oregon visor four years ago.

I firmly believe Lanning has everything in place to accomplish that as early as this season, especially with the talent he continues to assemble in the Pacific Northwest.

I was so torn between Ohio State's Ryan Day and my number two, that their rankings might just depend on what kind of mood I'm in that day.

With that said, Day is an elite coach in every sense of the word, which sounds wild to anyone who just woke up from a coma for the last two years.

It's amazing how a national championship can change perceptions, but Day was a phenomenal coach before he won it all just 18 months ago.

He's an excellent recruiter, a great offensive mind, and his coordinator hires are some of the best in the business, employing the likes of Matt Patricia, Jim Knowles, Chip Kelly, Arthur Smith, and Brian Hartline among others.

That matters in this day and age, and his hiring of Knowles specifically may have been the secret sauce that propelled the Buckeyes to a natty following the 2024 season.

I can't foresee Ohio State ever being ranked outside the top-ten to finish a season as long as Day is locked in, which says a lot about both his ceiling and consistency.

The best part (at least for Buckeye fans) is that Day isn't even 50 years old yet, so he will be among the elites for quite some time.

If you wanted to rank Day ahead of Smart or vice versa, I really wouldn't have a problem either way; it really was like splitting hairs between these two.

What it came down to for me were Smart's two national championships and the fact that he accomplished that while Nick Saban was still at the top of his game at Alabama.

I also believe Smart took over Georgia when it was in a slightly worse position than Ohio State was when Day took over, though neither program was exactly in the gutter.

What could you possibly say about Kirby that hasn't already been said?

He's an elite defensive coach, one of the best recruiters of his era, develops NFL talent at an absurd level, and absolutely feasts on his rivals.

Perhaps an even bigger feather in his cap is the fact that one of the other coaches on this list hails from his tree (Dan Lanning), meaning he even has a penchant for developing great coaches.

I would say he's the closest thing we have to a modern Saban if not for...

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I mentioned it near the top of the list when discussing Clark Lea, but no one, perhaps in the history of college football, has done more with less than Curt Cignetti at Indiana.

Just think about where the Hoosiers were in their entire history before Coach Cig got there.

There have been so many "firsts" in program history it's hard to even keep track: first 11-win season, first Playoff berth, first undefeated season, first national championship, first five-star recruit.

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The only knock I can think to make against Cignetti is that he hasn't been at Indiana for long enough to rack up some of the accomplishments of the all-time greats, but I keep having to remind myself he's at freaking Indiana.

I've written plenty about Cignetti's greatness but suffice to say, he's the king of the mountain right now and I don't know how anyone will dethrone him outside of a guy like Kirby winning the next four national titles.

If all that still hasn't convinced you, just Google him. He wins.

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