"It's the Sean Lewis coaching revenge tour."
It's been well-chronicled by now that Lewis and Deion Sanders, for reasons perhaps only those two ever will fully know, just didn't mesh together last year as Sanders arrived atop Colorado.
Coach Prime made a dashing hire when he plucked Lewis away from his head coach's post at Kent State to run the Shedeur Sanders-led Colorado offense.
But the mesh-point was a bad handoff instead.
Now, in the words quoted about from FootballScoop's own resident head coach, Doug Samuels, Lewis is back atop a program -- this time at San Diego State.
The Aztecs have a demanding schedule but an opportunistic one; they face Cal, Oregon State and Washington State in addition to their Mountain West foes, which notably includes Air Force and Boise State.
They're a definite Group of Five program to watch closely this fall, as FootballScoop discusses in-depth here in its latest podcast.
Opening with the American Conference, transitioning to the SunBelt and then closing with the Mountain West, MAC and Conference-USA, there are no shortage of storylines.
In fact, these "mid-major" programs still figure to feature prominently in the major college football landscape.
Someone's going to get the first-ever Group of Five College Football Playoff bid.
But there's a total of 13 new head coaches just between the SunBelt and Mountain West conferences.
There's several more coaches who need decisive years forward to avoid being a statistic -- coaching carousel victim -- by year's end.
Clay Helton at Georgia Southern enter a key Year 3 after back-to-back 6-7 seasons while Will Hall enters Year 4 with just one winning season and two 3-9 campaigns.
Hall has brought in well-regarded offensive coordinator Chip Long to run the offense, and Long's bonafides include helping Notre Dame to an unbeaten 2018 regular season and CFP berth, among others,
Butch Jones needs more wins at Arkansas State. He's coming off a solid bounceback-season in which the Red Wolves advanced to a bowl game, but even after doubling his win total from the year before, Jones is just 11-26 since he departed his role on Nick Saban's Alabama staff to become a head coach at a fourth different FBS program.
Lots of coaches in the MAC need big seasons, and FootballScoop President Scott Roussel has the breakdown in that league.
Plus there's lively discussion on Lance Taylor's Western Michigan program after Taylor lost both his offensive and defensive coordinators to new jobs in this last cycle and also loss off-the-field ace Gaizka Crowley to the general manager's post at Arizona.
All this and more in our latest FootballScoop Podcast:
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