Richt 7th longest tenured coach in Major College Football

Patrick Stevens, who is a good college football and basketball follow on twitter, has it broken down by date:
1986
1. Dec. 22 Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech

1990
2. Dec. 3 Larry Blakeney, Troy

1998
3. Dec. 1 Bob Stoops, Oklahoma
4. Dec. 2 Kirk Ferentz, Iowa

2000
5. Nov. 30 Gary Pinkel, Missouri
6. Dec. 8 Gary Patterson, Texas Christian
7. Dec. 26 Mark Richt, Georgia

2003
8. Feb. 19 Mike Riley, Oregon State
9. Dec. 8 George O'Leary, Central Florida

2004
10. Nov. 23 Steve Spurrier, South Carolina
11. Dec. 9 Kyle Whittington, Utah
12. Dec. 13 Bronco Mendenhall, Brigham Young
13. Dec. 17 Frank Solich, Ohio

Richt lost the Dean of SEC coaches title when the the SEC added Missouri, but by less than three weeks:
SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE 
5. Nov. 30, 2000, Gary Pinkel, Missouri
7. Dec. 26, 2000, Mark Richt, Georgia
10. Nov. 23, 2004, Steve Spurrier, South Carolina
14. Jan. 2, 2005, Les Miles, Louisiana State
20. Jan. 3, 2007, Nick Saban, Alabama
32. Dec. 11, 2008, Dan Mullen, Mississippi State
47. Dec. 11, 2010, Will Muschamp, Florida
T-62. Dec. 5, 2011, Hugh Freeze, Mississippi
T-68. Dec. 10, 2011, Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M
79. Nov. 27, 2012, Mark Stoops, Kentucky
T-84. Dec. 4, 2012, Bret Bielema, Arkansas
T-84. Dec. 4, 2012, Gus Malzahn, Auburn
T-89. Dec. 7, 2012, Butch Jones, Tennessee
127. Jan. 17, 2014, Derek Mason, Vanderbilt

One other interesting tidbit is that the median hire date for all coaches was December 8, 2011, just two and half years ago (two season/three signing days), when North Carolina's Larry Fedora, Memphis' Justin Fuente, and Kansas' Charlie Weis all were hired by their schools.

I'll do the old Westerdawg list of coaches with longest tenure at their current school without a BCS bowl later today or tomorrow, because Spurrier.
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