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College Football Is Having a Record-Breaking Moment

The numbers don't lie.

Michigan-Oklahoma drew 9.7 million viewers last weekend, making it the most-watched game across all networks. But that's just the beginning of what's shaping up to be another historic season for college football viewership.

Last Weekend's Biggest Winners

Three games dominated the airwaves:

• Michigan-Oklahoma on ABC: 9.7M viewers - The clear frontrunner

• Ole Miss-Kentucky on ABC: 4.8M viewers - Proving SEC matchups still deliver

• Iowa-Iowa State on Fox: 4.3M viewers - Rivalry games continue to captivate audiences

Even San Jose State-Texas managed to pull 3.7M viewers on ABC, demonstrating the broad appetite for college football content regardless of the matchup.

GameDay's Norman Success

ESPN's College GameDay averaged 2.6M viewers from Norman, with the final hour spiking to 3.3M viewers.

This represents the perfect storm of college football hype meeting passionate fanbases in prime locations.

The Bigger Picture

Here's what Fox Sports President Michael Mulvihill is seeing: "Total viewing of College Football is up +25% across all networks through Week 2."

His prediction? This will likely mark the third consecutive year of record-breaking college football viewership.

The trend isn't slowing down—it's accelerating.

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Billy Napier Lost To South Florida At Home. Here's Why Saturday's Game At LSU Will Make His Hot Seat Nuclear

Game: Florida @ LSU

Game Time: Saturday @7:30 pm EDT

Game Channel: CBS

College football coaches get fired for losing games they should win, not games they're expected to lose.

Billy Napier just lost the most winnable game on his schedule. Now he faces LSU in Death Valley, where desperate coaches go to die. The timing couldn't be worse for a coach already ranked #2 on national hot seat rankings.

Saturday night will make his seat nuclear hot.

The 39-Point Collapse That Changed Everything

Seven days ago, Billy Napier was preparing for a playoff run; today, he's preparing his résumé.

Here's how quickly college football can humble you:

• Week 1: Florida 55, LIU 0 (looked unstoppable)

• Week 2: Florida 16, South Florida 18 (looked incompetent)

That's a 39-point offensive collapse in seven days. Against lesser competition at home in front of 90,000 fans. The crowd went from cheering to chanting "Fire Napier!"

The math doesn't lie about organizational failure.

Why LSU Will Destroy Florida

Did you know that Florida went from scoring 55 points to 16 points against worse competition in consecutive weeks?

LSU's defense transformed from allowing 364.4 total yards per game in 2024 to just 207.5 yards in 2025. That's a massive 157-yard improvement against real competition. Florida's "improvement" came against FCS Long Island University.

Real competition exposed the truth about this program.

The Perfect Storm

Billy Napier is a better recruiter than coach, and Florida finally figured that out.

This matchup creates disaster for Florida. Death Valley at night meets a desperate, unprepared team. LSU's improved defense faces Florida's collapsing offense.

A loss here makes his seat “nuclear hot”.

The Prediction

In the span of 60 minutes against South Florida, four years of program building collapsed.

LSU wins 31-14, continuing Florida's decline from 55 points to 16 points to something worse. The hostile crowd breaks Florida's will in the first quarter. Napier's seat gets hotter heading into the brutal schedule ahead.

Saturday night puts the Billy Napier experiment on life support.

Hot Seat Bowl

Most People Think Coaching Experience Guarantees Success. UAB vs Akron Proves Them Wrong.

Game: Akron @ UAB

Game Time: Saturday @ 5:30 pm EDT

Game Channel: FS1

This weekend, two "proven" coaches will face off in what we're calling the Hot Seat Bowl.

Trent Dilfer vs Joe Moorhead.

One's a Super Bowl-winning quarterback. The other's an offensive mastermind who coached Saquon Barkley. Both were supposed to be slam-dunk hires.

Instead, they're fighting for their jobs.

Here's What The Numbers Actually Tell Us

UAB under Dilfer:

• 466.5 yards per game (elite production)

• 7.9 yards per play (explosive efficiency)

• 73.2% completion rate (surgical precision)

• 0-2 record (complete failure)

Akron under Moorhead:

• 201.5 yards per game (anemic offense)

• 3.2 yards per play (historically bad)

• Zero touchdowns in two games (literally can't score)

• 0-2 record (also complete failure)

Two coaches, two completely different problems, same result: losing.

The Cruel Irony

Here's what makes this matchup so perfectly absurd:

• UAB moves the ball like Alabama but loses like they're playing with high schoolers

• Akron can't move the ball despite having an "offensive genius" as its head coach

The truth is, both coaches are terrible at their jobs.

What This Really Teaches Us

• Experience doesn't translate.

• Credentials don't guarantee results.

• Past success doesn't predict future performance.

The graveyard of college football is littered with coaches who had all the right bullet points on their résumés but couldn't figure out how to win games when it mattered.

Dilfer and Moorhead aren't just fighting each other this weekend.

They're fighting the brutal reality that neither has ever been a decent head coach.

THAT’S A WRAP

Here's what I'm watching for.

Billy Napier walks into Death Valley on Saturday night knowing his job depends on not getting embarrassed. Trent Dilfer and Joe Moorhead square off in a game where both coaches need a win to prove they belong. And college football fans get to witness two coaches with all the right credentials fail spectacularly in real time.

The math is simple: Saturday's results will completely reshape our Week 4 Hot Seat Rankings.

Tuesday's rankings will show exactly how far Napier, Dilfer, or Moorhead falls.

Because in college football, September losses become October headlines.