Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where South Florida, New Mexico and Nevada were the only FBS teams to go winless in conference play:
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Auburn Gonna Auburn
Operating under the behavioral theory that the absurd attracts the absurd, Auburn (21) centered its coaching search on two unstable geniuses: Lane Kiffin (22) was Plan A, which fell through after a week of high-level absurdity; and Hugh Freeze (23) was Plan B. As my colleague Ross Dellenger reported first Monday, the deal to bring Freeze to the Loveliest Village on The Plain is done.