The Dash checks in on a few situations where the winning is not happening very fast and applies some historical context.
Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where The Dash regrets to inform you that the league office is not manipulating the officiating to undermine your favorite team.Like attention spans, patience with coaches continues to shrink. When they’re paid like saviors, the saving is expected to begin quickly. And with the available means to flip a roster, nobody wants to hear about a long rebuild.
But this remains a zero-sum game, which means some teams must fall behind while others get ahead. Riley is dead-on with the Trojans’ historical track record. The problem is that he was expected to be in the John McKay/Pete Carroll class of USC coaches, and thus far is more Clay Helton 2.0, with declining returns after an 11–3 debut season. Changing conferences wasn’t Riley’s idea, but he’s the one piloting the ship as USC takes on a much harder travel burden and generally tougher competition.
Napier has guided the Gators to two straight victories to alleviate a little bit of heat from his seat. / Matt Pendleton-Imagn ImagesMalzahn started off with two nine-win seasons, then has dipped to 9–9 since then. Obviously, that corresponds with entering the Big 12, a step up in week-to-week class, which has to be factored in. But if this season goes south, it will be hard to maintain belief that Malzahn is the guy who can lift the Knights to conference title contention.
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