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There are four coaches in college football making $8 million or more this season, and half of them got kicked in the teeth Saturday.
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THIRD QUARTER: PICK YOUR COACHING POISON
There are four coaches in the game making $8 million or more this season, and half of them got kicked in the teeth Saturday. They were the kind of losses that make everyone look and say, “Wow, that’s getting really ugly.” But the career arc of the two coaches is distinctly different.
College football fans, would you rather have see your favorite team have a Jim Harbaugh (21) tenure, or an Ed Orgeron (22) tenure?

On Saturday, Harbaugh’s Michigan Wolverines were upset by rival Michigan State, a team that couldn’t have looked more inept the week before in losing to Rutgers. For Harbaugh, this marked by far his worst loss in six seasons on the job—the Wolverines were favored by 21.5 points, yet they were outplayed and never led. In Harbaugh’s time at Michigan, he’d never lost a game when favored by more than 10.5 points.
This was new terrain in Harbaugh’s increasingly unsatisfying run in Ann Arbor. His track record prior to Saturday was winning almost all the games he’s supposed to win (47–8 as a favorite) and losing the games he wasn’t supposed to win (1–10 as an underdog or in a pick’em game). This was a new turn toward underachieving that brought many Michigan fans closer to the realization that the coach hailed as a conquering hero isn’t going to do anything truly heroic at his alma mater.
He’s 0–5 against Ohio State, with an increasing distance between the Buckeyes and Wolverines in the past four meetings: an infamous inch in 2016; an 11-point loss as a 12-point underdog in ’17; a 23-point defrocking in ’18 as a slight favorite; and a 29-point embarrassment last year. The losses to Ohio State underscore the fact that Harbaugh has never hit the high notes here the way he did at Stanford (a 12–1 season and No. 4 final ranking in 2010) and in the NFL with the 49ers (an appearance in the 2013 Super Bowl).
Harbaugh’s Michigan record is 48–19 overall, a .716 winning percentage that ranks slightly behind the best coaches in school history (Yost, Crisler, Schembechler, Carr) and ahead of most of the rest. The program hasn’t fallen apart on his watch by any means—it’s demonstrably better than where it was under Rich Rodriguez (23) and Brady Hoke (24). There have been no scandals on his watch.
But Jim Harbaugh wasn’t hired and paid all that money to be an average Michigan coach. The program’s all-time winning percentage is .729, which means that’s exactly what he is.
It’s hard to find a direct comparison to Harbaugh’s Michigan tenure. Among those that bear some resemblance, having been hired as saviors and then delivering something less than savior results:
Johnny Majors (25) at Tennessee. He came home to his alma mater after leading Pittsburgh to the 1976 national championship at the age of 41 behind the running of Tony Dorsett. After four seasons of struggle, Majors turned the Volunteers into a winning program but never seriously got into the national title hunt. In 16 seasons he won two SEC titles and shared a third, with a pair of top five finishes in the polls after bowl wins. Overall winning percentage: .645.
Bill Walsh (26) second act at Stanford 1992. After a pair of successful seasons on The Farm in the late 1970s, Walsh was lured up the Bay by the 49ers. You may have heard of his work there, which included three Super Bowl titles and modernizing the passing game. After four seasons away from coaching he surprisingly returned to Stanford, where the first season was very good (10-3 and a Top Ten ranking) but the next two were busts before Walsh re-retired.
John Robinson (27) second act at USC. The first stint (1976-82) included three top-two finishes in the polls, including a share of the 1978 national title. Then Robinson went to the Los Angeles Rams and coached them to six playoff appearances and a pair of NFC title game losses. The return to USC lasted five seasons in the 1990s, the best of which ended with a 1995 Rose Bowl victory and a No. 11 ranking.
When Orgeron’s LSU tenure reaches the 67-game mark where Harbaugh’s is currently, what will his winning percentage look like? Through 54 games it’s a sassy .778 — best in school history for anyone who coached 10 or more contests at the school. But the trajectory is potentially Chizikian (28).
When Gene Chizik was at Auburn, he captured lightning and Cam Newton in a bottle, producing a 2010 national championship and an undefeated season. Then the magic abruptly left: the Tigers went 11-14 the next two seasons and Chizik was fired.
After LSU’s 15-0 run last year, Orgeron lost his Heisman Trophy quarterback, his offensive play-caller, his defensive coordinator and a flotilla of other talent. This year’s team is 2-3, and it’s a baaaaad 2-3: the Tigers split their first four games against teams that currently have losing records, then were annihilated by a middling Auburn team 48-11 Saturday. That’s the program’s worst loss since 1996. Given the remaining schedule, 4-6 looks entirely possible, which would give LSU its first losing record this century.
“We’re not that far away,” Orgeron said Monday. “We’ve got to get better coaching. We’ve got to get better players. This is LSU and we’re going to do that.”
Can Orgeron get it back together in 2021? Sure, it’s possible. He’s recruited on a level that would actually make it difficult to not return to winning at a high percentage. But it’s also possible that things stay sideways and his LSU tenure ends (at some point) with one shining moment and a sour aftertaste.
In addition to Chizik, the comparison could be Larry Coker (29) at Miami. Like Orgeron, Coker was promoted from within after at least one high-profile head coach said no. Coker inherited perhaps the most talented team in college football history in 2001, and promptly won the national title. The next year he came within a controversial pass interference flag in the end zone of back-to-back undefeated titles. From there the results were 11-2, 9-3, 9-3, 7-6, and he was surprisingly fired.
Best Coker could do after that was becoming the first coach at UTSA, He went 26-32 in five seasons.
Back to the original question: fans would take the Orgeron/Chizik resume over the Harbaugh resume, right? You’d sign up for a few dark years if they followed an undefeated national title run. That’s preferable to a succession of seasons in which a team is always good but never great.
LSU fans living through the Orgeron Era will always have 2019. Michigan fans living through the Harbaugh Era will always have... what, exactly?
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Ionescu: "With the long offseason, I am committed to returning in 2021 fully prepared to rejoin my team and jumpstart my WNBA career."
New York Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu underwent a "minor ankle procedure," on Monday, the team announced.
Ionescu injured her ankle in her third career game on July 31, two days after a 33-point performance against the Dallas Wings. Her injury was deemed a high-ankle sprain, and she missed the remainder of New York's 2020 season.
“With the long offseason, I am committed to returning in 2021 fully prepared to rejoin my team and jumpstart my WNBA career,” Ionescu said in a statement on Monday. “My rehab has been going very well and I look forward to getting back on the court.”
Ionescu was selected with the No. 1 pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft in April. She was a two-time Wooden Award winner at Oregon, and she is the only Division I player to ever record 2,000 points, 1,000 assists and 1,000 rebounds in a career.
New York will hope to get a boost from Ionescu in her first full season in 2021. The Liberty finished 2–20 in 2020, failing to reach the playoffs for the third straight season.
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Brown will reportedly stay overnight in a Cleveland hospital for further evaluation.

Raiders offensive tackle Trent Brown was hospitalized on Sunday after a "mishap" with his pregame IV, according to the NFL Network's Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero.
Brown was inactive for Las Vegas' win over the Browns on Sunday in Cleveland. He was taken out of the locker room in a wheelchair after air entered his bloodstream during the IV insertion, per Rapoport and Pelissero. Brown will reportedly stay in Cleveland overnight for additional tests.
"We're just going to say that [Brown] got ill here in the locker room and he's being evaluated right now," Raiders head coach Jon Gruden said postgame. "We'll update you as soon as we something. But I'm told everything is OK. We were expecting Trent to play today, he had a great practice on Friday."
Brown was activated off the COVID-19 list on Friday. He has played just two games in 2020, most recently appearing in Las Vegas' win over the Chiefs on Oct. 11. The Oklahoma product signed a four-year, $66 million contract with the Raiders in 2019.
Las Vegas was able to control the line of scrimmage for much of Sunday's contest despite Brown's absence. The Raiders rushed for 208 yards in their 16-6 victory, holding possession for nearly 38 minutes.
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New on Sports Illustrated: Week 8 Takeaways: Steelers Survive Another Classic With Ravens, Lamar’s Rough Day, Dalvin Cook Does it Himself
Plus, Joe Burrow carries the Bengals to the day’s biggest upset, Tua’s debut, the Rams’ dud in Miami, the AFC East becomes a two-team race (and the Patriots aren’t one of them), and much more.
Reacting and overreacting to everything that happened in the Week 8 Sunday afternoon games...
Things That Made Me Giddy
Steelers Survive Another Classic With Baltimore: A week ago in Nashville, the Steelers were much more dominant than the final score indicated. This week, the Ravens defense was absolutely taking it to them. Whether you consider it Lamar Jackson making mistakes or the Steelers defense forcing those mistakes (it was a mix, but maybe a bit more of the former), Pittsburgh hung around long enough to figure it out offensively. The Ravens outgained them 457 to 221, but about half of the Steelers’ yardage came on two two long touchdown drives in the final 20 minutes, and situationally they were more than up to the task. The defense held on a fourth-and-3 in the red zone, and Minkah Fitzpatrick played the ball perfectly for the break up on the game’s final snap. These are things that 7-0 teams do.
Because John Harbaugh Was Still Complaining About It an Hour Later: One more look at the complete lack of a penalty on the final play in Baltimore. This is perfectly played and unworthy of even the slightest bit of controversy.
Dalvin Cook Is a One-Man Army: With the wind howling in Green Bay and the Vikings even more reluctant to put the ball in the air (ultimately, 15 dropbacks vs. 49 runs), Cook ended up with 32 touches for 226 yards—many of them after contact—and 4 TDs. If you are going to pay a running back, this is what you want to get from him.
Joe Burrow Doesn’t Need an Offensive Line: The Bengals’ O-line was already one of the NFL’s worst, and on Sunday they were playing four backups—and it showed. But Burrow consistently navigated through the chaos, going 26-for-37 for 249 and not taking a single sack (largely due to his escapability). The numbers weren’t mind-blowing, but this is a game the Bengals had little right being competitive in, let alone winning decisively.
William Jackson Erases A.J. Brown: It took until midway through the third quarter for Brown to register a catch for positive yardage, and the late-game stat-padding wasn’t nearly enough to get the Titans back in the game. Jackson continues to be one of the most underrated players in the NFL (and if you’re belatedly wondering why the Bengals defense looked so bad in blowing it to the Browns last week, Jackson’s absence was a big reason.)
Josh Jacobs Is a Mudder: The Raiders’ rushing attack hasn’t been quite what they wanted it to be through six games, but on Sunday, on an icy, muddy track in Cleveland, they rode it to victory. Jacobs had 31 carries for 128, and as a team Vegas rushed 45 times for 208, controlling the clock for nearly 38 minutes and winning ugly. They're 4-3 with four very winnable games among the next five on their schedule.
The Mighty Right Hand of Justin Zimmer: The recent practice-squad call-up DT (and one-time Montreal Alouette) sealed the win in Buffalo with the strip of Cam Newton—the Patriots were in range for a game-tying field goal, and maybe on their way to a game-winning touchdown. It’s just another reminder that only the great ones wear No. 61.
The Colts Win Their Way: Conservative offense, situational football and opportunistic defense. It never felt like they were gaining separation in Detroit, but the offense kept the ball for nearly 38 minutes, opened a lead and the defense got two late takeaways. That's how Indy cruised to a 20-point victory.
Le’Veon Bell Revenge Game: Yes! Taking it to the team that awarded him $27 million guaranteed when the market wasn’t there and recently released him so he could sign with the reigning Super Bowl champions. (Six carries for seven yards, three catches for 31, by the way.)
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Regrets
Lamar Jackson Takes a Step Back: The Steelers will make a lot of quarterbacks look bad, but Jackson was downright sloppy on Sunday, reckless with the ball on a day when the Ravens defense was making his job easy. He was responsible for putting Pittsburgh’s first 14 points on the board, unacceptable against a quality opponent and turning what should have been a double-digit win into a loss.
Lamar Disregarding Game Situation: He had already thrown a pick-six and another near-interception at the end of the first half at this point. But this interception, on the Ravens’ first play from scrimmage in the second half, was unforgivable. Baltimore was up 10, their defense was in complete control and it was first-and-10, so there’s no reason to put the ball in danger. But this is beyond “in danger”—everyone has eyes on him, this ball isn't going to get there. And if that’s not enough, it was also very reminiscent of an ugly pick Jackson threw in Pittsburgh last season.
Rams Get ALL the Mistakes Out of Their System: How they ended up having to travel three time zones on a short week is something for Howard Katz and his team of schedule-makers to answer at a Congressional hearing, but the otherwise efficient Rams managed to cram four turnovers and allow a punt return TD into the game’s first 30 minutes at Miami.
Bills Run Defense Is an Issue: Facing a Patriots offense with no real threat in the passing game—New England was overly conservative in passing situations on Sunday, understandable considering the past two weeks—the Bills still got gashed by the ground game. New England ran it 34 times for 188 yards, and you had the feeling that if not for Justin Zimmer stripping Newton deep in Buffalo territory on the final drive, the shorthanded Patriots were going to steal one in Orchard Park.
Matt Judon’s Accidental Right Hook: Connects with the official’s forearm—the most fragile part of the human body—and earns him a first-half ejection.
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Moments We’ll Tell Our Grandkids About
Who’s Tripping Down the Streets of the City / Smiling at Everybody She Sees / Who’s Reaching Out to Capture a Moment: Everyone knows it's Windy.
Mahomes Perfects the Underhand Flip: Someone’s putting those Tom Emanski tapes to good use.
T.J. Watt Becomes the New ‘Why Not Both?’ Meme: His responsibility is the back here, but he still swallows up the most dangerous running QB the league has ever seen. Sorry, little girl from taco commercial.
Nyheim Hines’s Celebration: The competition committee should really consider adding a seventh point for a touchdown if you do this immediately afterward…
Tua’s First Drop-Back: Yeah, those NFL pockets are a little tighter than the ones at Tuscaloosa.
It Got Better Though!: This is an accurate throw and an absurd catch by DeVante Parker through the pass interference for Tua’s first NFL touchdown pass.
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What We’ll Be Talking About This Week
Patriots Played Their Game and It Wasn’t Enough: They ran it and controlled the clock on offense, and limited big plays on defense. The lack of a passing offense (along with Cam Newton’s struggles, they had no Julian Edelman or N’Keal Harry in Buffalo) and struggles of their run defense were there again. Sitting at 2-5, if they have a chance to sell at the deadline they might as well do it.
It’s Bills vs. Dolphins in the AFC East: Buffalo has a game-and-a-half lead and got to four wins within the division with the victory over the Patriots at home, but still have to go to Foxboro and host Miami. And with the Bills’ schedule getting rough over the next month, it might be Week 17, when the Dolphins go to Orchard Park, that decides it.
Tua’s First Test: Incomplete: I know, “incomplete” is a class grade not a grade on an individual exam. The point is, with a first half featuring four defensive takeaways and a Jakeem Grant punt-return TD, there wasn’t much for Tua to do in his first start. The limited sample size showed an accurate passer on the short and intermediate levels, and a guy who will have to get used to managing tight NFL pockets after playing in some wide-open spaces at the college level. At the moment, his career trajectory ranges from surefire first-ballot Hall of Famer to all-time draft bust.
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