Here's a look at the head coaches of the participants in the Rose Bowl - Georgia's Kirby Smart and Oklahoma's Lincoln Riley.

Smart has UGA in the Rose Bowl - and the college football playoff - in just his second season in Athens. Riley has the Sooners in the same boat in his first season guiding the Oklahoma program.

Find out more about the youthful head coaches whose teams will meet Jan. 1 in Pasadena, Calif.

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Scott Cochran (center), nicknamed "Coach Yeah," recently finished in his first season coaching West Alabama after drug addiction halted his SEC coaching career. (Jack Leo/AJC)

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