Welcome back to the College Football Watch Guide here at the Pants. Before we begin, I’d like to go around the room and everybody say what they did during their off season.
I feel like we’ve aged twenty years since the lights went out at SoFi Stadium on January 9. As the winter, spring, and summer months ticked by we were treated to countless stories of NIL legislation, transfer portal comings and goings, gambling investigations, and the ever spinning coaching carousel. We had the Northwestern hazing scandal and the fallout of Pat Fitzgerald’s firing dominating the conversation in the early summer, with the ever-present media buzz surrounding Deon Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes before that.