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In dire need of leadership, Northwestern turns to David Braun
I’ve used the phrase “arguably the most difficult job of any new coach”, or something like it, in a number of previews this season.
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Zach Arnett's Mississippi State mourns, and moves forward
I remember not really liking the Mike Leach hire at Mississippi State.
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Cincinnati needs Scott Satterfield to buy in
Many FBS coaching hires are not what they appear to be on the surface.
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Jeff Brohm's homecoming at Louisville carries weighty expectations
In 2006, Louisville made the deepest of its scattered runs at national championship contention across the last few decades.
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If Wisconsin needed new blood, Luke Fickell was the clear choice
At the time, Wisconsin’s decision to fire Paul Chryst early in the 2022 season was one of the toughest choices of the sort that we’d seen.
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Purdue takes a calculated risk on Ryan Walters
Bret Bielema gets a lot of credit for the transformation Illinois underwent in 2022, but there’s a case to be made that Ryan Walters was the real key to…
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Hugh Freeze adds to Auburn's legacy of deeply unserious decisions
This isn’t anywhere close to the worst team in this series, but it’s by far the biggest mess in FBS.
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