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Byline: Dan Wolken, Columnist, USA TODAY Florida's decision Thursday to give football coach Billy Napier one more year to turn things around regardless of how this season ends will not [...]

Byline: Dan Wolken, Columnist, USA TODAY Penn State is probably going to the College Football Playoff for one reason and one reason only: Because the bar has been lowered sufficiently [...]

Byline: Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY After two years as the offensive coordinator at the University of Mary, a Division II program in Bismarck, North Dakota, the chance to take the [...]

Byline: Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY BOULDER, Colo. - Shortly before kickoff this year at Colorado home football games, the stadium starts to buzz with various celebrity guests and crew for [...]

Byline: Matt Hayes, USA TODAY Sports Network 1. USC football: The Fall of Troy What we have here is a bona fide inflection point, a crossroads where all paths lead [...]

Byline: Dan Wolken, Columnist, USA TODAY It is far too soon to tell whether Kalen DeBoer is going to be a good enough football coach for Alabama, but he's going [...]

Byline: Blake Toppmeyer, SEC Columnist, USA TODAY NETWORK Deion Sanders' luggage sure looks swanky. Louis Vuitton, he called it, and it comes with a nice set of wheels. The stars [...]

Byline: Matt Hayes, Columnist, USA TODAY NETWORK The best part about it, the absolute best part about this small town, cutthroat bubble of a world, is Auburn really is The [...]

Byline: Safid Deen, USA TODAY MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - Mike McDaniel looked like a deer in headlights whenever the cameras found the third-year Miami Dolphins coach. As starting quarterback Tua [...]

Byline: Dan Wolken, Columnist, USA TODAY We live in a society that struggles with the concept of age. People are living longer, working longer and becoming more resistant to the [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY Time was, an NFL coach might find his fanny getting warm if he was coming to the end of his fourth year and hadn't yet [...]

Byline: Mike Freeman, Columnist, USA TODAY Eric Bieniemy may be happy, and who am I to say someone shouldn't be happy? Bieniemy may also be doing what he wants. He [...]

Byline: Josh Peter and Tom Schad, USA TODAY OAKLAND, Calif. - Desmond Gumbs said he drew on wisdom from his father in 2021 when he started a football team from [...]

Byline: Mike Freeman, Columnist, USA TODAY It was 2014 when once, after a game against Seattle, the coach of the 49ers, Jim Harbaugh, spoke briefly to me one-on-one. It was [...]

Byline: Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY The transfer portal king has struck again. After pulling in the nation's No. 1 class of college football transfer recruits for 2023, Colorado coach Deion [...]

Byline: Jared Ramsey, Detroit Free Press | USA TODAY Network To ESPN's Paul Finebaum, Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh is a 'fascinating figure' and a relic of the old college [...]

Byline: Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY Controversy aside, this is one heck of a College Football Playoff field: Michigan, Washington, Texas and Alabama. How did we get here? The regular season [...]

Byline: Safid Deen, , Robert Kraft looked helpless, watching from a suite in his black puffer jacket. Bill Belichick and Bill O'Brien were visibly frustrated on the sideline. And poor [...]

Byline: Dan Wolken, Columnist, USA TODAY To make sense of why Billy Napier seems to be flailing in his second year at Florida, we must revisit an incident from his [...]

Byline: Dan Wolken, Columnist, USA TODAY When the last decade of college football officially ended on Jan. 13, 2020, Dabo Swinney was still relatively upbeat. His Clemson team had just [...]

Byline: Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY One of the most intriguing storylines in college football history featured a bold new coach who rode into town and caused a stir after he [...]

Byline: Dan Wolken, Columnist, USA TODAY It is easy to identify the exact moment you have lost Kirby Smart's attention. At a certain point, his eyes just shoot off into [...]

Byline: Jarrett Bell, Columnist, USA TODAY It sounded a lot like the typical Eric Bieniemy I've encountered in recent years - driven, passionate, upbeat - as he assessed his current [...]

Byline: Jarrett Bell, Columnist, USA TODAY For his next act as an NFL coach, Sean Payton is confronted by a Rocky Mountain range of challenges. His new quarterback, Russell Wilson, [...]

Byline: Jarrett Bell, Columnist, USA TODAY Sean Payton is arguably the hottest name on the market as this new hiring cycle for NFL head coaches kicks off. Hotter than Jim [...]

Byline: Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY BOULDER, Colo. - Five-star recruiting prospect Winston Watkins never has been to the state of Colorado and wasn't even born yet when Deion Sanders retired [...]

Byline: Keith Sharon and Seyna Clark, Mississippi Clarion Ledger | USA TODAY Network JACKSON, Miss. - The screams will start before dawn. Drums will thump in the morning darkness. Taunts [...]

Byline: Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY There are very few certainties as the 2022 college football season reaches the midway point and turns toward the homestretch of the postseason push. Well, [...]

Byline: Mike Freeman, Columnist, USA TODAY GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville is a flat-out racist. We knew this. Been knowing it. Saying that isn't even controversial anymore. It's like saying the [...]

Byline: Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY Week 5 saw the first head coach to be fired this season as Matt Rhule lost his job in Carolina after posting an 11-27 career [...]

Byline: John Adams, Columnist, Knoxville News Sentinel | USA TODAY Network KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Alabama's Nick Saban is the best coach in college football history. But No. 1 Alabama doesn't [...]

Byline: Safid Deen, USA TODAY Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel has been highly criticized in the aftermath of quarterback Tua Tagovailoa suffering a concussion among two head injuries in two [...]

Byline: Tom D'Angelo, The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, USA TODAY Network Sometimes even a "dream job" can turn into a nightmare. Happens all the time. But happens way too frequently [...]

Byline: Jarrett Bell, Columnist, USA TODAY With his status as the only coach ever to lead the Philadelphia Eagles to a Super Bowl crown, it's safe to suggest that Doug [...]

Byline: Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY Week 3 of the NFL season is in the books. The Miami Dolphins and Philadelphia Eagles are the only undefeated teams remaining. Thirty teams have [...]

Byline: Blake Toppmeyer, SEC Columnist, USA TODAY NETWORK KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Tennessee football will invite a bevy of demons, curses, spooks and jinxes into Knoxville this weekend. Schedule the exorcism. [...]

Byline: Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY Week 2 of the NFL season was the week of the comeback. The Miami Dolphins, Arizona Cardinals, New York Jets and Kansas City Chiefs overcame [...]

Byline: Mike Jones, USA TODAY When the 2022 NFL regular season kicks off this weekend, five men will make their head coaching debuts. In Chicago, 52-year-old Matt Eberflus leads the [...]

Byline: Cedric Golden, Austin American-Statesmen, USA TODAY Network AUSTIN, Texas - Steve Sarkisian is preaching total buy-in as the countdown to Alabama continues. Conventional wisdom says the top-ranked Crimson Tide [...]

Byline: Dan Wolken, Columnist, USA TODAY With its wide-open checkbook, its endless arrogance and its desperation to be relevant in football after more than a decade of mediocrity, it was [...]

Byline: Joe Schad, The Palm Beach Post, USA TODAY Network Mike McDaniel is an outside-the-box individual. The Dolphins are counting on him doing things that are outside the box. Like, [...]

Byline: Art Stapleton, NorthJersey.com | USA TODAY Network Brian Daboll wanted Joe Schoen and the Giants. Joe Schoen and the Giants wanted Brian Daboll. That became increasingly clear as the [...]

Byline: Blake Toppmeyer, SEC Columnist, USA TODAY NETWORK Kirby Smart won't suddenly become smarter if his third-ranked Georgia Bulldogs (13-1) beat No. 1 Alabama (13-1) in the national championship on [...]

Byline: Blake Toppmeyer, Columnist, USA TODAY NETWORK A teary-eyed Mike Leach told Oklahoma football players during a December day in 1999 that he'd been offered Texas Tech's head coaching job. [...]

Byline: Jarrett Bell, Columnist, USA TODAY Accountability starts at the top. That's a theme Jaguars owner Shad Khan needs to trumpet and embrace now, if he happens to wonder why [...]

Byline: Blake Toppmeyer, SEC columnist, USA TODAY NETWORK ATLANTA - A Georgia Bulldogs fan of several decades marched over to a table of four sportswriters Friday at the downtown Hyatt [...]

Byline: Dan Wolken, Columnist, USA TODAY If Kirby Smart is telling the truth, and we have no reason to believe he wasn't, JT Daniels could have started at quarterback Saturday [...]

Byline: Dan Wolken, Columnist, USA TODAY Just shy of five years ago, on the day Ed Orgeron was made LSU's permanent head football coach, there was no shortage of people [...]

Byline: Mark Giannotto, Memphis, Commercial Appeal MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The barbecue at the tailgates had been cooked, the bands had boomed at halftime, and a Memphis rapper named Duke Deuce [...]

Byline: Dan Wolken, Columnist, USA TODAY Southern Cal should construct a big digital display board at the entrance to campus, similar to the national debt clock near Bryant Park in [...]