Michigan problems vs. Alabama problems | Best and Worst Head Coach hires | Overrated Southern team

Kings of the North College Football

National champion Michigan and modern dynasty Alabama are a combined 9-5 under first-year head coaches a year after making the College Football Playoff. On this Kings of the North, Doug Lesmerises and Dan Wetzel compare the issues in Ann Arbor and Tuscaloosa and discuss how much we should expect new playoff teams in the 12-team playoff era.
While looking at Sherrone Moore and Kalen DeBoer, Doug also examines all the first-year head coaches in FBS, from Indiana's Curt Cignetti to Michigan State's Jonathan Smith to Syracuse's Fran Brown and gives them a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs sideways.
There's also the Punt and Block of the Week from Bill Landis, Doug's Overrated Southern Team and some news from around Northern college football.
Thanks for joining Kings of the North.
Chapters:
• Best and worst coaching hires (03:00)
• Thumbs up coaching hires (07:30)
• Thumbs sideways coaching hires (22:00)
• Thumbs down coaching hires (26:00)
• Michigan vs Alabama problems (34:45)
• What 12-team playoff would have been in 2023 (58:45)
• New playoff teams (1:02:30)
• Bill's block and kick of the week (1:11:20)
• Overrated southern team of the week (1:13:40)
• Northern college football news (1:17:30)