Pitting Florida and Cincinnati, the Allstate Sugar Bowl is this season's recipient of the "College Coaching Carousel" award. Bearcat program architect Brian Kelly was a local legend, right until he left for Notre Dame. Interim coach Jeff Quinn, who will lead the team this week, is bound for Buffalo once the whistle blows. Butch Jones, the Central Michigan transplant hired to replace Kelly, will watch the game, but isn't coaching, just hovering. Meanwhile, Florida's Urban Meyer announced his resignation last Saturday, then un-resigned Sunday, adrift in a vaguely defined leave of absence. Gator interim coach Steve Addazio will call the shots, but who knows how long he'll be doing so. It's also the final hurrah for UF defensive coordinator Charlie Strong, whose bags are packed for the head job at Louisville. Both Meyer and Kelly have dominant personalities and hands-on approaches, so we'll soon see which team is best able to approximate business as usual. And it used to be you couldn't tell the players without a scorecard.
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