By mid-October, there’s already nine head coach openings in college football. Boosters and donors are opening their checkbooks, preparing for what could be a wild coaching carousel season.
Perhaps the most shocking coaching change so far was Penn State’s firing of James Franklin after the Nittany Lions lost three straight games — first a nail-biter to Oregon, followed by disastrous and disappointing defeats to UCLA and Northwestern. Just last January, Penn State was playing in the semifinals of the College Football Playoff. While Franklin never did, they have the resources to win big, making the job an incredibly high profile one that will attract some of the best candidates in
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