It doesn’t figure to be quite as active as usual on the coaching carousel, but it’s still expected to be a wild year.



There currently is one open coaching job: Rutgers. More, of course, are coming. With USC losing at Notre Dame, the hunch is the Trojans are almost a lock to make a coaching change. Clay Helton had a rough first-half schedule, and going 3-3 with your third-string quarterback for games against teams as good as Utah and Washington isn’t embarrassing. But by now, it’s almost impossible for Helton to win over all of the doubters. Going 9-3, albeit respectable, won’t be enough, especially when recruiting has sagged in the face of all the uncertainty.



Could USC get Urban Meyer? Does he even want back in? I’m not sure of that. I do know the TV part of it is going well. (Full disclosure: We both work for Fox Sports.) USC is a big job, with great resources, and no program is better positioned to dominate a Power 5 league.