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Fictitious Toledo football coach is all the rage on social media

No need to adjust your computer screens, your iPads, or your eyes. Jason Candle is still the real-life coach of the University of Toledo football team.

But Gus Duggerton’s reign as UT’s virtual football coach has gone viral like wildfire over the past few weeks.

Duggerton, a video game character, is the result of the marriage of a lack of sports as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, a constant thirst for college football, and an appreciation for #MACtion football by Barstool Sports’ Dan “Big Cat” Katz, who cohosts the widely-popular sports podcast Pardon My Take that has over 540,000 Twitter followers and has earned a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts out of a pool of 68,000 reviewers.