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Forde-Yard Dash: How Do 10 First-Year Coaches Stack Up So Far?

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (Busch Light sold separately—and sold out?—in Ames):

HOW IS YOUR NEW COACH DOING?

They arrived at their new institutions last winter, and shortly thereafter so did COVID-19. Since then it’s been a completely abnormal ride, sans playbook on how to handle a job transition amid a pandemic.

Ideally and objectively, we all would draw a line through the results of 2020 and set the odometer back to zero in 2021 for those coaches. But how much fun is that in the middle of a season?