Craig Meyer

if his QB hadn't gotten injured, I would have taken a swing at Fran Brown. but I think Rhule would be about the best-case scenario for him, assuming Nebraska has at least eight wins this season. he's a really good program builder and more of a natural fit there

keep seeing Curt Cignetti's floated after the James Franklin firing and can't believe I'm about to say this: I'd rather be the football coach at IU than Penn State

I've reached the age where I see commercials and openly wonder 'are these people famous or something?' The Gillette ad with that guy and his dad immediately comes to mind

don't know if a failed college football coaching tenure has ever surprised me as much as Luke Fickell at Wisconsin. Scott Frost at Nebraska's the only one that comes close and even in that case, I had some reservations. with Fickell, I didn't see any way he wasn't winning at least 8-9 games a year

James Franklin might have to enter witness protection at this rate

been doing my newsletter for almost three years and the angriest I've made someone with it was a UMass fan who was irate because I wrote that moving all their teams to the MAC instead of dropping down to FCS was misguided

let's check in on how things are going

might be an unpopular opinion, but I hate the new turf at Colorado. that stadium, right at the foothills of the Rockies, looked so much better with natural grass

the only thing that's been able to stop Pitt the past few weeks was Zephian, the Louisville ball boy

I know Louisville's way more southern than midwestern because I see that Pitt QB's last name and am just like 'man, I've got no idea how to pronounce that fuckin thing'

feels a bit weird to say, but I think Corso no longer being there helps him a bit. always felt like he was trying to nudge into Corso's territory too much as the wacky guy on the panel

I joked about it last week, but given what UCLA's doing so far today, and after what it did to Penn State, I think it's gonna be a while before Tino Sunseri gets a job of consequence in college football that isn't under Curt Cignetti

I don't know if this is a case of Stockholm Syndrome, but McAfee on GameDay has grown on me

(I wrote it, so I'm a bit biased, but I genuinely love the idea of James Franklin at SMU)

Why James Franklin and Dabo Swinney could lead to a chaotic coaching carousel Penn State and Clemson's coaches may be looking for a fresh start elsewhere, moves that would alter the landscape of college football

it's possible that, after disappointing 2025 seasons, James Franklin and Dabo Swinney decide to leave their current schools. if they do, we'll have one of the most chaotic coaching carousels in recent memory

I mapped out what it could look like in this week's (free) newsletter

wonder if Ezra Klein thinks this is yet another example of practicing politics the right way

this whole column is excellent, but this graf in particular is the best description I've ever read on the difference between college football and the NFL

I'm still holding out hope her inexplicable rise is going to convince her to run for Congress back in Pittsburgh and lose by 30 points. trying to imagine her holding court with a bunch of grizzled Yinzers in a VFW hall

no doubt. I don't know how many people with an ounce of self-awareness would wanna post that

honestly hard to tell these days

reminds me of the dude who set up a Twitter account for his grandfather, who would type stuff in there and post mistakenly, believing that it was Google

maybe my favorite thing about this is that, based on my rough math, dude's teenage girlfriend was four years from being born when Significant Other came out

so much of what we're seeing right now with ICE and the National Guard was made possible by a concerted, decades-long effort to paint any place with more than 200,000 residents as a lawless hellhole. and the willingness of millions of people to believe that poisonous nonsense

oh this was 1000% destined to happen. I love the 'hey, let's get someone who appeals to a large audience' argument. he's arguably the most famous musician in the world! and, by all accounts, a cool guy

if these people wanna watch Kid Rock perform Bawitdaba so badly, just pull it up on YouTube

everyone I've ever met from Louisiana, even if I probably disagree with them on a lot, has been pretty cool, so I've gotta imagine that dude grew up getting shoved into locker after locker

no doubt. I grew up in Louisville, so I always thought the "midwestern vs southern" debate was kinda convoluted. then I moved to Pittsburgh, where there are like 20 different possible classifications for it

there aren't many people for me who have gone from "I have no idea who you are" to "I detest you on a molecular level" quicker than him. just a smarmy, spineless MFer

it's a tired argument, but Appalachia's generally the right designation for it (I'd say Rust Belt, but that's not geographic)

it's a controversial opinion to some, but having lived in the northeast and spent a lot of time in the midwest, Pittsburgh is WAY more midwestern than northeastern

got a chuckle out of this. even on a map as specific and accurate as this, Pittsburgh doesn't fall neatly into a single region lol

"sir, there's a second dog construction show. it's called Pupstruction. it's basically the same thing as Rubble & Crew, but worse"

having a toddler has taught me there are not one, but two shows about dog construction crews