THE 2026 TOP WHATEVER: WEEK TEN
How can we trust you to build a program when you can’t even call a protection scheme for yourself, coach?
The Top Whatever is Channel 6's proprietary method of ranking all the teams, concepts, and characters we care to rank in college football. This week, we highlight important elements of the game like protective layers of bureaucracy, quality substitute teachers, excellent traps to set for headstrong and impulsive young quarterbacks, and the one team in the sport that reinvents itself every week whether we like it or not. Enjoy.
ONE: SCAPEGOATS. A good football program should be built like an F1 car. It should be speedy. It should be powerful. Most importantly, when it crashes, the driver should be saved by all force being directed into flimsy, easily replaceable parts that will fly off and absorb the blow.
Ryan Day won’t be fired this season. His assistants, though? The Buckeye football machine has already started ejecting parts in all directions to disperse the brutal force of colliding with objects one of the game’s most expensive programs could not handle.
