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Forde-Yard Dash: Which New Coaches and Coordinators Came to the Rescue in Week 1

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college sports (copies of non-best seller “The Cult of Punting:” sold separately in Iowa City):

FIRST QUARTER

INSTANT SAVIOR UPDATES

So, your favorite team brought in a new coach/coordinator/quarterback in the offseason. And you’ve been hearing for months about the new and improved outlook because of that change. And then the games started to be played, and we got some actual intel on the instant savior subset.

A look at six new situations, and how they started:

Ohio State (1) hired Jim Knowles away from Oklahoma State at a salary of $1.