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Forde-Yard Dash: Can These Coaches Get Back in Good Graces?

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (couches that can be used for kindling sold separately in Lexington):

MORE DASH: Playoff Debates

SECOND QUARTER: LOVE ON THE ROCKS

At one point in the not-too-distant past, these 10 coaches were the most popular men on campus—if not the whole town, or even the state. They’re not going to get fired—well, maybe not—but the romance is gone. What will it take to bring it back?

First category: the homeboys who have gone from beloved to besieged.