College Football: Signs of hope for Power Five’s worst teams in 2020

Pac-12: Colorado

Colorado actually isn’t the worst program in the Pac-12. They didn’t have the worst record in the conference last year and there were actually two teams below them in the standings. That being said, they’ll be shuffling through their fourth head coach in just three years, making them the most disorganized program in the conference.

After they thought they had found a long-term head coach in Mel Tucker, he packed up and left when Michigan State offered him double the money that he was making at Colorado. This was a fatal blow for a team that was already trending in the wrong direction (right before Tucker).

It was hard to find a positive here, but the deflation of this program actually came at the perfect time. Karl Dorrell was brought in as head coach after every other candidate was taken, but he still looks like a great fit for the program. He head coached UCLA for five years, bringing them to a bowl game in each of those seasons. He also assistant coached in Boulder earlier in his career totaling up to six seasons.

COVID-19 will allow Dorrell to even the playing field in terms of familiarizing himself with his new team. Under normal circumstances, he would have been left in the dust as such a late coaching hire.