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FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2019 The Boston Globe Sports C7

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Last season 82-49 — 94-37 95-36 84-47

Virginia Tech

at Boston College

Virginia Tech

by 4½

Virginia Tech Boston College Boston College Boston College Boston College

UMass

at Rutgers

Rutgers

by 16

Rutgers Rutgers Rutgers Rutgers Rutgers

Oregon

at Auburn

Auburn

by 3½

Auburn Oregon Auburn Auburn Oregon

Wisconsin

at South Florida

Wisconsin

by 10½

Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin

Northwestern

at Stanford

Stanford

by 6

Stanford Stanford Stanford Stanford Stanford

Notre Dame

at Louisville

Notre Dame

by 18

Notre Dame Notre Dame Notre Dame Notre Dame Notre Dame

Syracuse

at Liberty

Syracuse

by 18½

Syracuse Syracuse Syracuse Syracuse Syracuse

Boise State

at Florida State

Florida State

by 6½

Florida State Florida State Florida State Florida State Florida State

Georgia

at Vanderbilt

Georgia

by 21½

Georgia Georgia Georgia Georgia Georgia

Miami (Ohio)

at Iowa

Iowa

by 22

Iowa Iowa Iowa Iowa Iowa

Selections are not against the pointspread.

Globe staff’s college picksWEEK 1

eand wide receiver Aaron Parker

ack to try to make it happen

.

lve Regina: Joey Mauriello, the

monwealth Coast Conference Of-

ve Rookie of the Year, and seven

all-conference honorees return

hat looks like a strong season.

ne

tes: Well, it can’t get any worse

eBobcats, who finished 0-9 in

wdoin: The Polar Bears are un-

ew leadership after a 1-8 season,

oach B.J. Hammer has a history

ning programs around. He took

heny (1-29 in three years) to 6-4

1 8.

olby: Sophomore quarterback

Hersch, who was NESCAC Offen-

Rookie of the Year in 2018, leads

ay as the White Mules find their

ng under third-year coach Jack

rove.

usson: The Eagles have posted

ing seasons every year since

and with six All-Eastern Colle-

Football Conference selections

ning, that shouldn’t change any-

soon.

aine: After a program-best sea-

hat saw the Black Bears reach the

nal FCS semifinals, new coach

Charlton, the youngest coach in

ion 1, has a lot to live up to.

aine Maritime:Ifthere’sany

tspot, it’s NEWMAC Co-Rookie

eYear Terrell Thomas, an outside

acker who led the conference

1 1.9 tackles per game.

niversity of New England: The fu-

sbright for the Nor’Easters, who

hed 2-7 in their inaugural season,

Commonwealth Coast Defensive

ie of the Year Keegan Stanton-

returning alongside two all-con-

ce selections.

necticut

entral Connecticut: First-year

hRyan McCarthy is faced with

ions in the passing game after

raduation of quarterback Jacob

gala and the top three receivers.

oast Guard: The Bears (7-3) re-

dtheir most wins since 2007 and

nthree All-NEWMAC selections,

including junior Justin Moffatt, who

set a school record with 71 receptions

and led the conference in receptions

and yards.

Connecticut: In its last year in the

American Athletic Conference, Con-

necticut — coming off a one-win sea-

son — is looking for a new quarter-

back.

New Haven: The Chargers lost NE-

10 MVP Ajee Patterson to graduation,

but wide receiver Ju’An Williams, who

led the league in yards per game and

receiving touchdowns, returns to a

team picked to finish first in the

league after an NCAA second-round

appearance.

Sacred Heart: A defense that was

strong through a 7-4 season returns

10 starters, but the offense is thinned

after the graduation of starting QB

Kevin Duke and top receivers Andrew

O’Neill and Jordan Meachum.

Southern Connecticut:TheOwls

have holes to fill with the graduation

of Eli Parks, the NE-10 Offensive Play-

er of the Year who paced the confer-

ence in all rushing categories, and five

other all-conference honorees, but

were picked to finish fourth in the pre-

season poll.

Trinity: Ranked No. 30 among D3

programs by College Football Ameri-

ca, the Bantams return the NESCAC

Co-Rookie of the Year in sophomore

quarterback Seamus Lambert and sev-

en other conference honorees after an

8-1 season that saw them capture

their third straight NESCAC title.

Wesleyan: Junior defensive tackle

Taj Gooden, who was named a

D3football.com Preseason All-Ameri-

can after a sophomore campaign that

landed him on the All-NESCAC first

team, returns to a Cardinals team that

went 5-4.

Western Connecticut:TheColo-

nials (8-2) have some rebuilding to do

offensively after the loss of their quar-

terback, top four rushers, and top two

receivers.

Yale: There is depth behind center,

with senior Kurt Rawlings working

back from a season-ending injury in a

2018 season that still earned him All-

Ivy honorable mention, and Rookie of

the Year Griffin O’Connor, who took

over in his absence.

ntlookthisfall

By Alan Blinder

THE NEW YORK TIMES

HOOVER, Ala. — The first

time Ed Orgeron, Louisiana

State’s football coach, led a

Southeastern Conference pro-

gram, Steve Spurrier had a

warning when all of the region’s

gridiron gods kept their jobs

from one season to the next.

“Folks, look around,” Org-

eron remembered Spurrier,

then at South Carolina, saying

at a 2006 meeting of the

league’s coaches. “It ain’t going

to be like this next year.”

A similar grounded-in-histo-

ry, watch-your-back admoni-

tion is in order this year as col-

lege football teams begin a new

season. For the first time since

2006, every SEC football team

has returned its head coach —

perhaps as close as the notori-

ously demanding, overbearing

and fickle conference can come

to signaling some form of pa-

tience or contentedness.

Yet no one seems quite cer-

tain how 14 of the South’s most

scrutinized men together

achieved a measure of group

job security, tenuous as it might

be, found in no other Power

Five conference this past offsea-

son.

“It’s an enigma,” Phillip Ful-

mer, the athletic director at

Tennessee, said in an interview

13 years after he was a member

of the conference’s last stable

head coaching corps. “I think

it’s an aberration.”

Certainly so. Between the

2012 season, when Missouri

and Texas A&M first played in

the conference, and 2017, the

SEC averaged about two head

coaching changes a year. Ahead

of the 2018 season, five teams

hired new leaders, and Missis-

sippi removed the “interim” tag

from its coach. Then, despite all

the chatter about who was up

and who was down and wheth-

er a college might pay some-

one’s seven-figure buyout,

nothing changed for 2019.

Coaches and administrators

suggested university officials

were increasingly learning to

shrug off more of the social me-

dia furor that follows a ques-

tionable decision, a blown lead

or an old-fashioned blowout.

Some said the big buyout

coststiedtotheleague’scoach-

ing contracts influenced deci-

sions — as of April, according to

a USA Today database, at least

nine SEC head coaches had

school buyouts exceeding $10

million. Others noted that uni-

versity leaders had come to be-

lieve that only so many coaches

might be prepared for every-

thing that comes with coaching

in a conference that does more

swaggering than most. This

summer, Spurrier was among

those who suspected that the

turnover before the 2018 sea-

son gave rise to the stability —

and that it would prove fleet-

ing.

Indeed, it’s all too easy to

imagine some booster some-

place sharpening a knife and

suggesting that a seven-win

season is simply insufficient.

There is always a demand for

speed: Most SEC coaches who

wind up unemployed lose their

jobs because they just lose too

many football games to the

wrong rivals — and too quickly.

“The more time you have as

a coach, you can really build

your program and recruit to a

certainpersonalitythatfits

who you are,” said Matt Luke,

the coach at Mississippi. “For-

tunately or unfortunately, this

is a performance-based busi-

ness.”

But the development of a ti-

tle-winning program, several

coaches noted, is not instant.

Nick Saban, the most feted

coach of the era, was 7-6 in his

first year at Alabama before

NCAA penalties reduced the

win total to two.

He posted a 12-2 record the

next season. He capped his

third season in Tuscaloosa with

a national championship and

was quickly honored with a 9-

foot bronze statue outside Bry-

ant-Denny Stadium.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL PREVIEW

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BRUCE NEWMAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mississippi coach Matt Luke

said SEC football is “a per-

formance-based business.”

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