Fifteen thoughts on a wild Week 8 and more:
1. James Franklin’s appearance on the “College GameDay” set was the talk of the morning. As one would expect, public opinion was divided on the former Penn State’s coach comments. Was his performance selfish? Was it classy?
2. Personally, I don’t think it was either. Perhaps he could have waited a few weeks to let the news marinate, for both him and his former players, but the guy clearly wants to coach again. He didn’t throw anyone under the bus, and his firing happened recently enough that Nick Saban was clearly agitated by it. I know, I know: Breaking news, a coach is defending his peers. But having arguably the greatest coach of all-time saying on the nation’s most-watched college football show that your firing is “unfair as hell” is the kind of PR you simply can’t buy. Right, wrong or indifferent, some college presidents (and likely ADs) will make note of that when conducting their schools’ coaching searches this year.