Forty names, games, teams and minimums making news in university football, where Taron Dickens of Western Carolina has redefined what it means for a quarter to be in an area, finishing 46 consecutive assists and 53 out of 56 in the victory of the catamoths over Wofford. First quarter: When your Top Five team turns into a garbage dumpster.
Apart from the Bill Belichick Bombshell, the coach carousel last year was enough without incident. This is about to change, with four power conference jobs currently open and many other suspended in the balance. Close.
The dashboard is walking on the wildest side possible, with a Domino theory of 49% non -serial which could send the sport completely in orbit. Read it in the mind with which it was written:
First step: UCLA (11) Kalani Sitake hiring far from Byu. Sitake has 77–43 with the cougars, with three seasons of two-digit victories and perhaps another on the way this season. The current team of Byu is 5-0 and a threat to win the Big 12. In addition to a proven file, Sitake has a great personality that would play well in Los Angeles.
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The opening creates the first of a few large Escape Moves (12): Steve Sarkisian in Byu. Sark is an elder who can feel the weight of the work of Texas weigh it if this continuous season of trend negatively for Longhorns. The rich former Byus have shown real vigor in the zero market, both in football and basketball, which could be an additional attraction for a coach who seeks to flee and to enter something different. (The five-star quarter-arre Ryder Lyons has signed up for 2026.)
In response, Texas (13) Do what comes naturally: hiring Lane Kiffin far from Ole Miss. Replacing an offensive scientist perhaps a better, Kiffin is considered the quarterrière Whisperer who can unlock Arch Manning. (This also allows Kiffin to try to talk to Manning in the transfer portal and follow the family steps in Ole Miss.)
Kiffin’s departure, in turn, opens the way to the second great escape: James Franklin flees Penn State for the Mississippi. He would prefer Florida, but we will get there in a minute. It is clearly time for Franklin to get out of the increasingly unhappy valley, and his record from 24 to 15 years in Vanderbilt testifies to his ability to win the dry without many advantages.
(Franklin could perhaps move to the Wisconsin, but presume a vacancy that could be filled by Jim Leonhard or Pat Fitzgerald. Or he could go to the North West, if that opens. But if he cannot beat the best of Big Ten in Penn State, he will not do it there.)
Next: Matt Rhule Share Nebraska (14) For Penn State. At the beginning of October, Curt CIGNETTI of Indiana looks like the most attractive candidate. But Rhule is 14 years younger, and when he brings the 8 to 2 Cornhuskers to State College, Pennsylvania, on November 22, it will be an open hearing for the Alum of Penn State 1997. Win the match, call the Movement Trucks – as far as Franklin and Rhule are concerned. (It is also a more entertaining domino game with the NEBRASKA Job Open than Indiana.)
With a vacancy in Lincoln, Neb., Missouri (15) Benefits from greater defeat against Nebraska in a story full of them – Eli Drinkwitz leaves for the country of corn. The drink is a wise portal operator and an implacable recruiter, the two traits necessary for Nebraska. The sports director of Mizzou, Laird Veatch, makes filling by winning the guy he promoted to Memphis, Ryan Silverfield, although he must wait for an appearance in Memphis in the play football playoffs to make him official.
Meanwhile, there is another action in dry and ACC.
Rhett Lashlee leaves SMU for Arkansas (16)which finally overcomes its dependence on Bobby Petrino. The Razorbacks are trying to throw money into chicken into a few other candidates, but end up with the best man for work. SMU follows suit while trying to whisk everyone, from Dabo Swinney to Kellen Moore, but ends up landing Miami’s attacking coordinator Shannon Dawson.
Elsewhere in the dry, the coaches besieged in Auburn and Kentucky make their own movements. Hugh Freeze plans to try to do the senior tour as a golfer, but ends up taking Memphis instead. Mark Stoops becomes the defensive coordinator of Ohio State after Matt Patricia returned to the NFL. (Patricia follows the very successful dance of coordinator of Chip Kelly in Columbus, Ohio.)
Which allows the Wildcats to hire the native of the state of Bluegrass Will Stein (17), Oregon’s offensive coordinator. Auburn wins Alex Golesh from the south of Florida, who must listen to the beyond Booster to bring Kevin Steele, Curtis Luper and Petrino as assistant trainers.
Kentucky fans want former WildCat Jon Sumrall de Tulane. But when Stoops leaves and creates a vacancy, Sumrall is already the head coach Caroline du Nord (18). The Bill Belichick chapel realizes that he made a massive error while trying the college thing and a box after a terrible season. This allows Carolina to do what she should have done – and almost did – a long year in Sumral’s hiring.
(Tulane, in turn, offers his work as general manager to Cooper Manning if Arch transfers in his hometown team. Mannings decrease.)
The other Vacancy ACC is filled by Ricky Rahne to Virginia Tech, who brings the talented quarter Colton Joseph with him from Old Dominion.
What, ask yourself, Florida (19)? After being dismissed before the Public Opinion Court in September since he took the job, Billy Napier survives again. This will disappoint a fans base segment, not to mention Franklin and Drinkwitz. But suppose that the following occurs …
Napier follows the upheaval of Texas with a victory in Texas A & M; a dismantling of nesis in Georgia; A victory in Ole Miss while a distracted kiffin traces his move from Texas; a triumph over Tennessee; a beating of his spiral rival Florida State; And a berth in the dry championship match. If a guy can range from 9 to 3 against this calendar, you should keep it … right?
And then, just when smoke begins to depart and the ground stops trembling, there is this: the NFL comes to call Marcus Freeman (20) end of January. Notre Dame opens, and the whole nation approaches to see who becomes the new coach of Fighting Irish. (It will not be Brian Kelly.)
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