The 2022 college football Most Intriguing Lists continue. Last week’s installment: the Most Intriguing Coaches. This week: Most Intriguing People In Suits—that is, the people away from the field who are helping shape the future of the sport.
1. Kevin Warren, Big Ten commissioner. In one bold move out West, Warren’s reputation was radically transformed. With the league’s acquisition of USC and UCLA, the Big Ten emphatically answered the SEC’s acquisitions last year and will be the nation’s first coast-to-coast conference in 2024. Warren, brutally criticized in ’20 for his leadership through the pandemic and caught flat-footed by the Texas and Oklahoma move in ’21, scored his biggest win to date and gained the trust of his constituency.