🏈 1-2 punch: Which teams have the best coordinator tandems?

[FOX Sports Digital]

Removing the teams with head coaches who act largely as a full-time coordinators, which programs enter the season with the most dynamic coordinator duos in the nation?

2. Alabama

OC: Lane Kiffin (--)
DC: Kirby Smart (6 years)

Smart has been a hot head-coaching name for half a decade now and he continues to turn down overtures to stay with Nick Saban. His defenses are among the nation’s best every year he’s been inTuscaloosa. Kiffin, for all of his faults, is overqualified to be “just” an offensive coordinator. As long as he isn’t handling CEO duties — which he has struggled with in the past — Kiffin could be one of the nation’s top offensive minds in 2014. There is no questioning his ability to coach quarterbacks and develop a passing game.

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