College football coaches typically fail as family-room fans. Driven motivators, they would rather push players’ buttons than those on a TV remote.
But because coaches spend Saturdays planted on the sideline instead of the sofa, they struggle to judge how other teams are performing. Just like Mark May.
“I wish I had time to know who is ranked,” Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald said this week, admitting he was unaware that three Big Ten teams — No. 2 Ohio State, No. 4 Michigan and No. 8 Michigan State — made the top 10 of the Associated Press poll, while No.