College football and season-long storylines go hand-in-hand.
From the quirky bits that get featured on College GameDay to the program narratives that elicit fervent debate on sports talk radio/TV and in the Twitterverse, there is always some sort of storyline that ties together a season for fans of particular programs (as well as all of college football as a whole). Some of these are entertaining and engaging (everyone likes a good underdog story like Petersen’s Boise teams or 2021 Cincinnati), but there’s always at least one that get’s tiresome by the end of the year.
For me, some of the most exhausting storylines over the last few years were the finger-pointing after the Jimmy Lake fiasco last year, our lack of big wins during the Petersen era, and the “what happened to Jake Browning?