PHILADELPHIA- The 2016 American Athletic Conference Football Championship. Back-to-back ten win seasons. Three straight years of bowl eligibility. More than two dozen graduates in each of the past two seasons. Three NFL draft choices in 2016 with a record setting number predicted for 2017. Seems like a new standard has been reached for Temple football.
Not so fast. On December 14, 2016, Geoff Collins was hired as the 27th head coach in program history and almost immediately began using social media hashtags to show his imprint on one of the fastest rising programs in the nation.