The latest episode of THE JOB, our subscriber series about the ins and outs of open college football coaching jobs, features four schools.

* Stanford: A once-great Pac-12 program has fallen like a rock as it’s transitioned to the ACC. But the Cardinal are amid a serious fundraising push, and this bad job could become a good job once again.

* Oregon State: No program in college football has had a harder past two years than the Beavers. What will be left for a new coach to take over, and is the athletic department’s financial house in order?

* UAB: This program had some good years after coming back from the dead, but the Blazers’ problems go a lot deeper than Trent Dilfer being a bad hire. What kind of coach makes sense? We have an idea.

* Kent State: Arguably the hardest job in FBS, full stop.

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* Why Kent State Is Always Bad, featuring guest Rodger Sherman

* All of our previous episodes of The Job, right here. With this episode, we’ve covered all nine current FBS openings. There are more to come.

* As mentioned in the show, here’s that Sportico report on Oregon State’s NIL setup.

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Producer: Anthony Vito

The Week 8 college football schedule features tests for a handful of coaches who sure look like they need a win to keep their jobs for the long term. In addition to those angsty situations, we’ve got a few big helmet games and potential conference race deciders in the Sun Belt and Mountain West. A few of the games covered in this episode include:

* Louisville at Miami: A possible trap for the Canes, but if they’re what we think they are, they’ll be fine

* Washington at Michigan: Can the Huskies keep scoring with an overmatched offensive line? Maybe!

* LSU at Vanderbilt: No reason Vandy can’t do this at home

* Georgia Tech at Duke: Major ACC championship race implications

* Baylor at TCU: Better figure this out, Frogs

* UNLV at Boise State: Winner is the best team in the MWC, for now

* Ole Miss at Georgia: How worried should you be about Trinidad Chambliss?

* Ohio State at Wisconsin: It’s getting late for Luke Fickell

* Mississippi State at Florida: Ditto for Billy Napier

* Missouri at Auburn: Same for Hugh Freeze

* Texas Tech at Arizona State: Can anyone in the Big 12 hang with the Red Raiders physically?

* USC at Notre Dame: No, you can’t just put this game on Netflix

* Utah at BYU: If Kyle Whittingham really still has it, the Utes are going to crunch BYU’s freshman QB in this game

* Old Dominion at James Madison: THE MAIN COURSE, presented by Modelo, featuring Bennett Conlin of JMU Sports News

And many more games discussed within! Producer: Anthony Vito

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SUBSCRIBER EPISODE: The first proper emergency show of the 2025 coach carousel arrives. Penn State fired James Franklin after an unthinkable weeks saw the Nittany Lions go from national championship contenders to one of the biggest disasters in recent college football history. Alex and Richard discuss how this got out of hand so quickly, how the Franklin era changed Penn State for the better, and where the program and Franklin can each go from here. Producer: Anthony Vito