College Football 2017: 3 takeaways from Week 9 action
Week 9 of the college football season is in the books and here’s what we learned from the interesting slate of games.
The good news is that the Netflix hit “Stranger Things” came out with season two over the weekend. The bad news is that for some college football programs, they ended the month of October in the upside down.
With the first College Football Playoff rankings looming, we’ll take a look at what we’ve learned from the ninth week of the 2017 season.
3. McElwain is done at Florida, more SEC firings are coming
The back to back SEC eastern division champs came into the 2017 season looking to defend their title but things faded away rather quickly. It is almost the month of November and the Florida Gators are going to kickoff the 2017 coaching carousel by firing head coach Jim McElwain.
Slow starts, inconsistent offense and quarterback play have made things very uneasy for McElwain and this past week may have been the tipping point. Last Monday, the Florida head coach said that players and even his family had received death threats. In the lead up to this past Saturday’s game against Georgia, those reports were refuted and debunked. When you add in the 42-7 blowout loss to Georgia, you get what has gone down around noon on Sunday.
Football Scoop reported that McElwain was let go on Sunday afternoon and now one of the prime jobs in college football comes open but how much more are there to come? We knew that Ole Miss was going to come open earlier this summer. Now Florida joins the party but with the current landscape of the SEC, more are coming. It’s just a matter of where and when.
Tennessee and Texas A&M have both been less than impressive and with Sumlin and Jones coming into the season on the hot seat, they are running out of time to save their jobs. Both suffered bad losses yesterday so they may be soon-to-be-fired coaches walking.
Arkansas and Missouri are other schools who may be looking for new coaches when the season is over but are still in a position to reach bowl games. It’s gonna get weird, sooner rather than later.