Coach grades
RaceBannon
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September grade: A+
How do you replace the best there ever was? By starting the season 4–0 and taking over the No. 1 ranking. DeBoer has crushed a very difficult assignment, putting his own stamp on the Tide while maintaining the overall commitment to excellence—and the commitment to routinely beating the Georgia Bulldogs.
Against Georgia, DeBoer carried over one of his signatures from last season’s national runner-up team at Washington: being absolutely ready for a big game and starting fast. In 2023, the Huskies played five games against opponents who finished the season ranked and scored first against four of them: the Arizona Wildcats, Oregon Ducks twice and Texas Longhorns. They scored on their first three drives against Arizona; three of their first four in the first Oregon game; four of their first five in the second meeting; and two of their first three against Texas. Combined first-quarter score of those games: 45–15.
(The national title game against the Michigan Wolverines was another animal entirely.)
What DeBoer and Bama did to Georgia was astounding, roaring to a 21–0 first-quarter lead and 28–0 in less than 18 minutes—against a team that hadn’t surrendered a touchdown in its previous four games. The last time Kirby Smart trailed anyone 21–0 in the first quarter as a head coach: never.
Jedd Fisch (19), Washington Huskies
September grade: C
Like Moore at Michigan, he took over right after the parade had run through town. With a near-complete rebuild on his hands, nobody was expecting first-year Big Ten glory from the Huskies. But a lot of their fans were expecting to beat rival Washington State and probably Rutgers, too.
Comments
The part about DeBoer finishing shitty got clipped but he wins
fisch should be F otherwise spot on.