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Utah State Football: Warming up for Washington State

USU kicks off the 2020 season against the Washington State Cougars and new head coach Nick Rolovich

Aggies start the season at home against Rolo’s Cougs

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A crapshoot game if there ever was one

Utah State sets foot into the 2020 season by hosting the Washington State Cougars. While newly minted Cougar head coach Nick Rolovich doesn’t have the cachet or reputation of departed head coach Mike Leach, it would be a mistake for the Aggies to write off Wazzou’s offense. The game is set for September 3rd with TV rights yet to be announced.

Location: Pullman, WA

Mascot: Butch T. Cougar

Conference: PAC-12

2018 Record: 6-7

Head Coach: Nick Rolovich (Overall 28-27). As a former player and head coach of the Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors, Nick Rolovich saw his share of ups and downs. As a player, he had a poor 2000 season followed by a very good 2001 season as the team’s starting quarterback.

After rising through the coaching ranks, Rolovich earned the privilege of being the Warriors’ head coach starting with the 2016 season. Though his first two years on the job resulted in shaky 7-7 and 3-9 campaigns, the team cemented an explosive and entertaining offense en route to 8-6 and 10-5 records the following two seasons. Before departing for the frozen tundra of Pullman, Rolovich’s career in Honolulu culminated in a wacky and wonderful Hawaii bowl win against BYU.

On paper, Rolovich is the right hire for Wazzou. He’s employing the run-and-shoot offense, which is similar to the air raid that Mike Leach employed so successfully in the Pac-12. With his own offensive background and system in tow, it would appear to even be a great situation. Nonetheless, Rolovich apes Leach’s own liabilities in overall poor defensive tradition and scheme. If Wazzou does more of the same with Rolovich, it may initially put a ceiling on what the coach can accomplish in 2020 with key missing players.

Quick Series Snapshot: WSU leads 2-1

The Aggies and the Cougars haven’t met on the gridiron since 1961, Merlin Olsen‘s final collegiate season. Utah State traveled to Pullman and bruised the Cougars 34-14. The previous two games in the series saw Wazzou dominate the Ags both times.

Washington State Cougars, 2019 Season:

This season will go down for many Coug fans as a bitter pill to swallow. The Cougs got off to a hot 3-0 start, albeit against inferior competition. After winning a close one against the Houston Cougars, Wazzou’s scoring offense had amassed 148 points in just three games. With winnable games against UCLA, Colorado, and Arizona State on the horizon, it looked like another potential North division championship was coming for the Cougs.

Chip Kelly and UCLA had other plans. In what was certainly one of the most bizarre and wild college football games ever played, Cougar QB Anthony Gordon threw nine touchdowns and 570 yards against two interceptions… and lost at home to a then winless Bruins team. The Cougs went on to lose to Utah and Arizona State and diminish any sort of accomplishment they had the first three weeks of the season.

After blowing another close game to Oregon, the Cougs shocked everyone with a dominant win over the Stanford Cardinal and delighted their fans with a squeaker win over Oregon State. Unfortunately, the regular season ended with another loss to the Washington Huskies, bringing their current Apple Cup losing streak to seven.

As a final parting gift to the fanbase, Mike Leach’s last game with the Cougars resulted in an underwhelming and sloppy 31-21 loss to a strong Air Force team in their bowl game. Leach moved on to Mississippi State, prolific QB Gordon graduated, and Rolovich took the head coaching reins shortly after that.

2020 Overview:

Offense: With the departure of Anthony Gordon at QB, the Cougs will have a QB competition on their hands. Unfortunately, due to the Coronavirus outbreak, Wazzou didn’t get a single Spring practice session this year. The apparent front-runners for the position are RS SO Cammon Cooper and RS FR Gunner Cruz. Neither QB has appeared in a game.

Wazzou is in much better shape at wide receiver. Though losing some of their top receivers from 2019 in Dezmon Patmon and Brandon Arconado, the Cougs return explosive targets in JR Travell Harris, SR Renard Bell, and SR Davontavean Martin. All of these players have significant game experience. When you add up their numbers with the fourth returning receiver for Wazzou, their numbers amount to a strong 154 catches, 1,796 yards and 16 touchdowns from 2019. They’ll help carry the load for the inexperienced QB and make his life much easier.

Though not the featured aspect of the offense by any stretch, the Cougs will still have some credible weapons at RB. JR Max Borghi will look to build on a successful 2019 season and reassert himself as the starter. He ran a solid 817 yards on 127 attempts and garnered 11 touchdowns. RS SR Deon McIntonsh will also look to play a bigger role in 2020 and back up Borghi. Most of the RBs the Cougs have at their disposal are inexperienced, but a few of them have great size.

Defense: The Cougs have a few returning starters on defense that can stand to improve as a unit from last season. SR LB Jahad Woods made a huge impact in the backfield, tallying up an impressive 141 tackles in 2019. SR Safeties Bryce Beekman and Skyler Thomas will look to improve in 2020 and help anchor a secondary that gave up 267 passing yards per game in 2019, a dismal 114th NCAA ranking.

On the defensive line, Wazzou has just one senior in Will Rodgers III. Though he put up strong numbers in 2019 with 27 total tackles and four sacks, he’ll need to step up and lead a unit that consists of mostly underclassmen. The Cougars’ run defense was not stellar last year, allowing 185.5 yards per game. Though it’s reasonable to expect an improvement, this unit still has some of its work cut out for it if the secondary doesn’t get better.

Final Thoughts and Game Prediction

It’s extremely typical for first games of the season to be sloppy and penalty ridden affairs. It takes time for team chemistry to coalesce into meaningful game-time production. When it comes right down to it, the season opener for USU is going to be extremely ugly across the board.

The Aggies are breaking in a new, albeit not inexperienced QB in Henry Colombi. They have a new offensive coordinator to boot, which almost inevitably makes losing several top receiving targets from last season like TE Caleb Repp and WR Siaosi Mariner an even harder burden to bear. Without those targets, receivers like SR Jordan Nathan, SR Savon Scarver, and SR Taylor Compton all need to take a meaningful step forward and exhibit leadership for the passing game to be a threat. Losing your top signal caller in Jordan Love to the NFL draft has its drawbacks.

For the Cougars, they also have a large set of challenges to overcome. Not only will they have a deeply inexperienced QB taking the reins of their newly installed run-and-shoot offense, but their first start will also be on the road. There’s no telling how Wazzou’s signal-caller is going to react in that environment until the chips fall. Without the benefit of any Spring practices at all, developing chemistry is a tough ask, even for the most assured athlete. If Wazzou’s traditionally strong offensive line doesn’t protect their passer, USU’s re-schemed 3-4-4 defense could cause major problems to whomever wins the starting job.

When it comes down to it, this game is most likely going to be a shootout. The Cougs are traditionally pass happy and light on the run, but USU’s secondary has much to prove after a mediocre 2019 season. On the flip side, Wazzou’s defensive culture is historically weak and last season was no exception. Against a new coaching staff and defensive philosophy change, USU should be able to gain significant yards on the ground and help gather confidence for an offensive line that has yet to show it can consistently bowl over its opposition.

Whoever possesses the ball last is going to win this high-scoring, penalty-ridden, and mistake-filled game.

Final Prediction- Utah State 35, Washington State 34

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Ranking SEC head coaches heading into 2020 CFB season

We ranked all the SEC head coaches, from Georgia football’s Kirby Smart, to Arkansas’ Sam Pittman, to Florida’s Dan Mullen.

The SEC is loaded with head coaching talent as we head into the 2020 college football season.

You have your usuals – Nick Saban, Kirby Smart, Gus Malzahn, Ed Orgeron, etc.

But then you have your familiar, or in some cases not-so-familiar, yet new faces: Lane Kiffin, Mike Leach, Sam Pittman, Eli Drinkwitz.

Ranking the SEC head coaches heading into the 2020 season is as hard as it’s ever been, and that’s because of all these new hirings. But it’s also because Jeremy Pruitt waited until October to start winning games in Tennessee last year. It’s because Ed Orgeron took a loaded roster and won a national title. Because Gus Malzahn and Auburn always have the talent but can’t seem to win the big ones. Or because, despite a 4-8 season, Will Muschamp was able to knock off Kirby Smart and Georgia.

Related: 2020 Georgia schedule with game-by-game score predictions

With all of this taken into consideration, here’s our SEC head coaching power rankings for the 2020 college football season:

14. Sam Pittman, Arkansas

I would have loved to get Pittman into a higher spot on this list, but what is there to go off of? His last head coaching job came in 1992 and 1993 when he led Hutchinson Community College to an 11–9–1 record over two seasons.

I am 100% rooting for Pittman to succeed in his first season as head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks. It won’t be easy, and this is a team that will likely finish with at least five losses for the first few years, but that’s not necessarily a terrible thing as long as they play hard.

Arkansas may not field the most talented teams in the SEC, but if there’s one thing I’m certain of it’s that the former UGA O-Line coach will make sure his guys fight harder than anybody.

13. Eli Drinkwitz, Missouri

Drinkwitz gets the No. 13 spot because of what he was able to do at App State last year. In his first season as a head coach, he led the Mountaineers to a 12-1 record and a Sun Belt championship.

But that’s not the SEC. It’s going to be a rocky road ahead for Drinkwitz, as Mizzou will definitely not be one of the more talented teams in the league for a few years.

12. Derek Mason, Vanderbilt

I often find myself rooting for Vanderbilt and Mason.

He took over at Vandy when James Franklin left for Penn State, and though it’s been tough at times, you get the feeling that Commodore fans actually look forward to their seasons.

11. Will Muschamp, South Carolina

If Muschamp had not beaten Georgia last year, he maybe would not even be on this list at all.

But he won and that probably saved his job. He coaches up a good defense, but South Carolina will need to crank up its recruiting efforts if it wants to start contending in the SEC East. Another season with no bowl game may put an end to Muschamp’s head coaching career with the Gamecocks.

10. Lane Kiffin, Ole Miss

Kiffin is a good football coach, there’s no denying that. No. 10 is pretty low for an offensive genius like him. But this conference is simply loaded.

Kiffin did a great job at Florida Atlantic, but I still need to see him win consistently at a Power 5 school.

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The one stat on offense that will define Wisconsin’s 2020 season

Paul Chryst and the Wisconsin Badgers enter the 2020 season needing to account for more than 2,200 rushing yards, more than 1,440…

Paul Chryst and the Wisconsin Badgers enter the 2020 season needing to account for more than 2,200 rushing yards, more than 1,440 receiving yards and 37 combined touchdowns lost to the NFL or graduation after the 2019 season.

Recreating this production will be a tall task for offensive coordinator Joe Rudolph and his unit as those numbers represent around 68% of the team’s total rushing output, more than 50% of the total receiving output and almost 60% of the total touchdowns scored.

Forget recreating these numbers, as even finding something that resembles Jonathan Taylor running the ball and Quintez Cephus catching balls on the outside will not be an easy feat.

The good news, though, is those numbers won’t be the ones that will define the Badgers’ offensive season in 2020.

The one stat that will define their season on offense (well, two stats because they directly affect each other): third and fourth down conversion rate and therefore time of possession.

This may seem like an obvious answer but it was one of the driving forces behind the team’s improvement on offense from 2018 to 2019.

Their third/fourth-down conversion rate in 2018? 41.3%.

Their rate from last year? 51.4%

That ten percent increase led to a 3-minute, 34-second increase in their average time of possession and gave stars like Taylor and Cephus many more opportunities to break free put points on the board.

Now, you might think that the biggest difference between 2018 and 2019 was Alex Hornibrook and his inability to take care of the football along with Jim Leonhard‘s 2018 defense not being able to turn the ball back over for the offense.

The numbers actually were wildly similar between the two years, as the 2018 unit turned the ball over 1.8 times per game and in turn created 1.9 per game–good for an average turnover differential of -0.1–while the 2019 offense and defense both created 1.6 turnovers a game, obviously good for an average differential of 0.

On the other hand–and yes the improvement from Hornibrook to Jack Coan was a big one–one of the largest driving forces behind both the increase in late-down conversion percentage and therefore the offense’s total output was Paul Chryst adapting to the times and going for it on fourth down.

The world was watching when Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson dialed up two critical fourth down conversions in Super Bowl LII against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, one of which being the infamous Philly Special.

As Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach once said on the Dan Patrick Show: “When it comes to controlling the football, first downs and third down conversions are the important thing…the greatest form of ball control in the world is points.”

Well, as Pederson showed in the Super Bowl and as Chryst showed last year by going for it on fourth down 23 times and converting 18 of those tries, keeping your offense on the field in situations where they are in striking range to score points or are close to that range is important. What this does more than anything is give your playmakers more chances to make plays and put points on the board, which then requires your opponent to take more time in order to even the score.

Leach is obviously on one spectrum of the ball control argument as he often wins games with less than 50 yards on the ground. The Badgers on the other hand will always be a team built on a dominant rushing attack, but this doesn’t mean that kicking up the aggression and going for it on fourth down won’t lead to more points on the scoreboard and more time with the ball on offense.

There are players that obviously will need to step into the voids left by Taylor, Cephus and others. But more than anything, especially given Coan’s experience and talent under center, what will define Wisconsin’s 2020 season on offense will be the rate at which they convert third and fourth down opportunities, and therefore the number of chances Chryst and Rudolph give their playmakers on offense to put points on the scoreboard.

 

Oklahoma included in multiple games that revolutionized the spread, per ESPN

ESPN recently released their 25 most important games in revolutionizing the spread offense. Oklahoma held five of those spots.

Passing has become the norm in modern football.

Over the last decade, the spread offense has taken college football by storm. In 1987, the average points per game scored in college football was 23.2. By 2013 it had already risen to 29.17, primarily due to the increase in throwing the football.

ESPN recently released their 25 most important games in revolutionizing the spread offense. Oklahoma held five of those spots.

The Sooners first game pivotal to the emergence of the spread offense was the Red River Rivalry in 2000. Newly hired offensive coordinator Mike Leach helped his quarterback to 275 passing yards, and running back Quentin Griffin scored six touchdowns to lead Oklahoma over Texas 63-14.

In 2008, Oklahoma had another big performance using the spread against Texas Tech. With Kevin Wilson at offensive coordinator, the 2008 Sooners averaged 48 ppg, and hit their stride against the Red Raiders beating them 65-21.

Oklahoma first loss on the list comes in 2009, when Florida beat Oklahoma 24-14 in the orange Bowl to claim the national championship. Both the Gators and Sooners were early adopters of the spread, but a seven minute 76-yard touchdown drive sealed the game for Florida.

In 2013, Baylor handed Oklahoma its worst loss in their series history with a 41-12 smackdown. The Bears came into the game averaging an astounding 69 points per game and 9.0 yards per play.

Oklahoma’s matchup against Texas Tech in 2016 will long live in the annals of offense. Oklahoma ended up on top 66-59, but the teams combined for 1,702 yards. Baker Mayfield threw for 545 yards and seven touchdowns, and Patrick Mahomes, a now-NFL MVL and Super Bowl MVP, completed 52 of his whopping 88 attempts.

New Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach is already hurting his program with an idiotic tweet

We just knew this was going to happen, didn’t we?

In a sport full of them, Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach is a singular personality. Mississippi State officials presumably understood that going in when they fired Joe Moorhead this offseason and hired the offensive guru away from Washington State.

Yet hire him they did, and we’re already seeing the blowback: A tasteless tweet last week has now caused a Mississippi State defensive tackle to enter the transfer portal, according to the player’s father.

Last week, Leach tweeted out a cartoon which showed a woman knitting a noose for her husband while locked down on quarantine. Aside from the fact that it’s just not that funny, the worst kind of 1950s leftover “take my wife, no seriously!” humor, it apparently never crossed Leach’s mind that noose imagery might not play well in Mississippi.

Shortly thereafter, DT Fabien Lovett declared his intent to transfer.

Lovett’s father, Abdual, spoke to the Clarion Ledger and confirmed that Leach’s tweet played a role in his feelings about his son playing for Mississippi State.

From the Clarion Ledger:

“I didn’t feel comfortable with my son being down there with a guy like that from a leadership standpoint – that you can just throw anything out there.”

Elite programs including Florida, Florida State, Tennessee, Oregon, Ole Miss, Michigan and Houston are in the mix for Lovett, according to 24/7 Sports.

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Could the Seahawks pursue WSU receiver Dezmon Patmon?

The Seattle Seahawks love big, speedy wide receivers, and Washington State’s Dezmon Patmon could be an intriguing addition.

Over the past two seasons, the Seattle Seahawks have dipped into the local talent pool by selecting players from the University of Washington in back-to-back drafts.

However, even though the program improved tremendously with coach Mike Leach at the helm, Seattle rarely tapped into the pool of players from UW’s rival, Washington State University.

Part of that is simply a schematic issue, as Leach ran an air raid offense with tons of passing and very little defense, which didn’t leave a lot of NFL-caliber players at positions Pete Carroll and his staff like to target in the draft.

The group of WSU Cougars who are hoping to hear their name called in 2020 are more of the same, though one name could be of interest to Seattle: Receiver Dezmon Patmon.

Patmon had over 750 receiving yards in each of the past two seasons, leading WSU with 816 and five touchdowns as a junior and hauling in eight scores last year.

Patmon will appeal to the Seahawks much in the way DK Metcalf did, as a big-bodied receiver with surprising speed. Patmon is six-foot-four and 225 pounds, which makes his 4.48 40-yard dash time extremely impressive. It was first among all PAC-12 receivers and 19th overall at the combine.

Patmon doesn’t have the ball skills and physicality that Metcalf has, and he had drop issues in college, but it’s not hard to imagine the Seahawks taking him on as a project if he is available as an undrafted free agent.

With Metcalf, Tyler Lockett, Phillip Dorsett, David Moore, Malik Turner and John Ursua in the mix, Seattle does not need an immediate impact receiver. Patmon would be a nice player to stash on the practice squad and develop into a more physical, tougher receiver.

If it works, he could be another diamond in the rough and might even open up the door for more Cougars to make their way west to Seattle.

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Gardner Minshew discusses his battle with Anthony Gordon to start at Washington State

Anthony Gordon and Gardner Minshew both battled it out to start at WSU, and now Ramsey could end up being a late selection like Minshew.

Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Gardner Minshew II has always fought hard for the time he’s earned to start, and that was especially the case in college and the NFL. During his senior year at Washington State he got the nod from coach Mike Leach after transferring from Alabama and went on to put up historic numbers for the team.

While Minshew made things look easy during his 2018 campaign, the fact of the matter is his 2019 successor, Anthony Gordon, pushed him hard and didn’t make the decision an easy one on coach Leach. In a recent interview posted by Crissy Froyd on Titans Wire, Leach discussed the quarterback competition that occurred before the 2018 season and how it brought the best out of Tyler Hilinski (before his passing and prior to Minshew’s arrival), Gordon and Minshew.

“I thought it brought the best out of all three of them. I thought it was very closely contested,” Leach said. “I think the edge that Gardner had was that he’d actually played in a game, so he had a little more experience. I thought that each of the three did things that were better than the other. Gardner, for not having been exactly in the offense, really gained a lot of ground quickly, and in the end I found that to be quite impressive, and then statistically you could argue that Anthony at various points was ahead for sure.”

Minshew also discussed the competition and his relationship with Gordon.

“Watching Gordo play with a lot of aggressiveness and creativity challenged me to push outside of my comfort zone,” Minshew said. “I just tried to help him as he goes through the whole process, giving him advice any time I thought I could help.”

That mentality helped Minshew when he came into the league, and he was as prepared as a sixth-round pick could be for Nick Foles’ unexpected collarbone injury. By the end of the season, he was 6-6 for the team and was able to win seven Pepsi Rookie of the Week awards. 

If the 2020 season is played out, it looks like Minshew’s impressive display showed the Jags enough to get him the starting role. Whenever he retakes the field, fans should expect him to have the same mentality he had while with the Cougars before the 2018 season regardless of who he’s battling. 

BREAKING: SEC Media Days schedule released for 2020

The dates and schedule for 2020 SEC Media Days was announced via the conference’s official Twitter account on Thursday. Alabama head coach Nick Saban will be taking part in the activities on Wednesday, July 15 along with Sam Pittman (Arkansas head …

The dates and schedule for 2020 SEC Media Days was announced via the conference’s official Twitter account on Thursday.

Alabama head coach Nick Saban will be taking part in the activities on Wednesday, July 15 along with Sam Pittman (Arkansas head coach), Mike Leach (Mississippi State) and Jeremy Pruitt (Tennessee).

SEC Media Days will take place July 13-16, returning to the College Football Hall of Fame and Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta, Ga.

2020 SEC Media Days schedule

MONDAY, July 13

Florida – Dan Mullen

LSU – Ed Orgeron

Missouri – Eliah Drinkwitz

TUESDAY, July 14

Georgia – Kirby Smart

Kentucky – Mark Stoops

Ole Miss – Lane Kiffin

Vanderbilt – Derek Mason

WEDNESDAY, July 15

Alabama – Nick Saban

Arkansas – Sam Pittman

Mississippi State – Mike Leach

Tennessee – Jeremy Pruitt

THURSDAY, July 16

Auburn – Gus Malzahn

South Carolina – Will Muschamp

Texas A&M – Jimbo Fisher

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Happy Valentine’s Day: 5 Reasons Why You Will Love The 2020 College Football Season

Happy Valentine’s Day. Here are 5 reasons why you’ll love the 2020 college football season.  

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Happy Valentine’s Day. Here are 5 reasons why you’ll love the 2020 college football season.  

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5. The most interesting college football in 2020 will be played in … Mississippi?

And you thought the end of the 2019 Egg Bowl was a whole lot of fun.

A wild finish with a player pretending to pee like a dog, a missed extra point to miss out on overtime, and one of the most intense games of the season – a 21-20 MSU win – was nothing compared to what’s coming on a weekly basis.

Ole Miss fired head coach Matt Luke, landed Lane Kiffin – an under-appreciated talent as a head man – and away we go.

All aboard the Lane Train.

No one knows how to poke the bear better than Kiffin. He’s going to rally up the base, he’s going to recruit at a high enough level to be a problem, and he’ll get under the skin of the rest of the SEC head coaches.

And he’s going to win a whole lot of games, too.

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Mississippi State had a good head coach in Joe Moorhead.

Even though it never got rolling in his two years in Starkville, Moorhead’s offenses are normally amazing, he was just getting his pieces in place, he went to two bowl games in two years, and … he wasn’t Lane Kiffin.

So Mississippi State got the one guy with the type of differentiating factor of an offense to annoy every SEC defensive coordinator.

Granted, LSU and Alabama haven’t had a whole lot of problems lately getting the O going, and it’s not like Leach’s teams have ever done anything all that amazing, but this is different.

Leach has never been a head coach with these resources and this ability to pull in the talent – his 2020 class, which he had almost nothing to do with, was his highest-ranked recruiting haul in 18 years as a head coach.

Leach is going to be Leach, and Mississippi State is going to be Washington State/Texas Tech.

Kiffin is going to be Kiffin, and Ole Miss is going to be a weekly problem to deal with.

And football in Mississippi is about to add even more spice to an already amazing SEC West.

Buuuuuuuut ….

NEXT: No. The most interesting college football in 2020 will be played in … the Big Ten?

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Viral college football comedian now does the best Mike Leach impression

This is too good.

Add new Mississippi State coach Mike Leach to the list of college football coaches comedian/radio host Joey Mulinaro can brilliantly impersonate.

The 26-year-old Indianapolis resident recently spoke with For The Win about his style of comedy and the wide variety of impressions on his resume, and they aren’t limited to college football. Sure, a video of him impersonating Nick Saban talking about Thanksgiving sides is the one that first went viral, and he can do Ed Orgeron’s famous accent. But he can also do people like Andrew Luck and celebrity pastor Joel Osteen.

And now Leach.

In his latest college football video, which currently has more than 260,000 in less than 24 hours, Mulinaro not only captures the former Washington State coach‘s cadence and vocabulary, but he also portrays a popular dilemma.

Although some of Mulinaro’s past videos insert football coaches into random situations, with Leach’s penchant for random topics and tangents — like Area 51, why people hate cats, Pac-12 coaches fighting, Pac-12 mascots fighting, how he tracked a raccoon in the snow and why he cites Sasquatch for inspirational quotes— make this video about Netflix seem like something the coach would absolutely comment on.

When FTW spoke with Mulinaro in the days leading up to the College Football Playoff National Championship game, he explained how he also put together his Mike Gundy impression and mentioned a Jim Harbaugh impression is on his to-do list. He said he’s also working on improving his Dabo Swinney one.

Here’s another recent audio-only clip of Luck, Orgeron and Saban talking about Star Wars.

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