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Byline: Jason La Canfora Where will the next wave of NFL head coaches come from? It's a familiar refrain in a league that is incredibly inefficient at identifying top candidates, [...]

Byline: Jason La Canfora A year ago at this time, the phone lines for Pittsburgh sports radio shows were filled with callers opining about how fun and carefree life would [...]

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: John Feinstein Correction: A previous version of this column incorrectly referred to Elon's football team as the Saints. The team's nickname is the Phoenix. It also mistakenly said Curt [...]

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: Jason La Canfora Anyone wondering if Jim Harbaugh's somewhat hokey coaching style might still play in the NFL after 10 years away, or whether the Los Angeles Chargers would [...]

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: John Feinstein Curt Cignetti was patiently answering questions one day last week. âNo rush,â he said to his questioner. âWhen I hang up with you, I'm just going back [...]

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: Sam Fortier His brain had been obsessed with football since he was a little boy studying film and drawing on the whiteboard at the high school where his dad [...]

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: Jason La Canfora Overreaction season is upon us in the NFL, and hot takes are the norm, but it's not a stretch to conclude through two weeks that the [...]

Byline: Adam Kilgore Loose jerseys are injury risks in the football philosophy of Jim Harbaugh, and his holistic and swift renovation of a franchise leaves no time for injuries. In [...]

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: Steven Godfrey Three weeks ago during a news conference, Colorado Coach Deion Sanders refused to answer a question from a reporter for a local CBS affiliate because of an [...]

Byline: Ben Strauss, Ben Terris During his senior year at Mankato West High School, Dan Clement quit the football team. He was drinking too much and partying more than he [...]

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: Sally Jenkins If somebody told you to trust your money to Bill Belichick to invest, would you? Now turn the question around. Why would you trust football decisions to [...]

Byline: Cindy Boren If anyone was predestined to become a coach, it was Bill Belichick. The son of an assistant coach at the U.S. Naval Academy and a teacher, William [...]

Byline: Michael Lee His team was up 54 points at halftime, and Antonio Pierce was fuming. He'd watched his team, one of the best in the country, play haphazardly on [...]

Byline: Neil Greenberg and Scott Allen Ron Rivera's time in Washington figures to end with the Commanders' regular season finale Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys, at which point the retrospectives [...]

Byline: Jason La Canfora Some would have you believe that the NFL's annual coaching purge is almost over, and that the billionaires who have already fired their head guys are [...]

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: Jerry Brewer SEATTLE - Kalen DeBoer is an incredible football coach who doesn't act like an incredible football coach. If he introduced himself as a lawyer, you would believe [...]

Byline: Jason La Canfora The declining quality of offensive play continues to be a major storyline of this NFL season. No team has sufficient offensive linemen, scoring is down (if [...]

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: Kent Babb MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - Mike McDaniel's batteries are fading, and, like usual, it's his voice that goes first. The Miami Dolphins coach is normally upbeat and witty, [...]

Byline: Jason La Canfora We've reached the point in the New England Patriots' descent where fan and media fiction have intertwined, with fever dreams emerging about whether (and how) Bill [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga There are eight games remaining in the Washington Commanders' season. That's a lot of football to be played. And yet, it is almost impossible to see a [...]

Byline: Chuck Culpepper Michigan's clamorous visit to Penn State on Saturday with the Big Ten suspending Jim Harbaugh on Friday finds Penn State at its own considerable juncture, centered around [...]

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: Jason La Canfora This could be the end of the line for Bill Belichick in New England. Nothing lasts forever in the NFL, but Belichick's run with the Patriots [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer Bill Belichick wobbles atop his pedestal now, an acclaimed coach with expiring brilliance. During the first three years of his life after Tom Brady, Belichick couldn't shake [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga Which time, when Chicago Bears wideout DJ Moore danced in the end zone, do you figure Josh Harris wondered, 'Are the right people coaching my Washington Commanders?' [...]

Byline: Rick Reilly You don't understand how bad it's been. Being a Colorado Buffaloes football fan is like being a Nickelback devotee. You mostly get laughed at. A couple of [...]

Byline: Nicki Jhabvala It's not just about volume. It's volume and pitch, and people with voices that carry know how to create a frequency that pierces the air like a [...]

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 [...]