The Hot Seat Scale is 1-27

Heart of the Rivalry is a Blade-produced YouTube series and podcast that is available on all major platforms. 

The weekly college football show is led by The Blade’s sports columnist, David Briggs, and co-host/producer Phil Kaplan.

This week, our hosts talk about the differences between a morass and molasses in Ohio State’s lethargic win over Nebraska and the quantity and quality of bottles thrown in the Horseshoe.

Briggs takes us back through all that was on and off the field in Bowling Green’s thrilling thumping of Toledo 41 - 26, an atypical college football score Phil claims he predicted. 

That leads to our first edition of Hot Seat, where Briggs give us the tale the stovetop tells about coaches, who are all at a 1 to start. 

We marvel at the Wolverines rejection of quarterbacking norms. But their better-mousetrap worked well enough to get a win against in-state rivalry Michigan State, who again felt they should throw fists over the whole affair. 

But now Michigan welcomes the juggernaut, number one-ranked Oregon Ducks. Briggs tells us about the eight things that need to go right for the Wolverines to win. Then we look ahead to OSU traveling to Happy Valley for a much needed win over Penn St., while UT and BGSU travel to respective directional Michigan schools. 

All that and more on your favorite college football show, The Heart of the Rivalry.