Another illustration of the unpredictability of college football is Chip Kelly’s transfer to Ohio State.

Nothing is certain now as college football continues to have the strangest offseason in decades.

Not surprisingly, but in a seismic shift, championship head coaches Nick Saban and Jim Harbaugh left last month. And now for this amazing breakthrough.

We know things have become really crazy when a head coach from a big league like Chip Kelly decides to leave UCLA to take a position as offensive coordinator at Ohio State. This is shocking to the status quo in a sport that values tradition. It’s not a football blueblood, UCLA. However, the Bruins aren’t supposed to make moves like this.

Usually, assistant coaches depart to become head coaches. not in reverse order. But the old laws of logic are irrelevant now since so much is changing so quickly. The game has evolved due to conference realignment, the transfer portal, name, image, and likeness (NIL), among other issues. This is not the sport of your parents. It’s not even the sport of your elder siblings.

On the first Big Ten season of UCLA in 2024, Kelly punted and accepted a reduction in rank to join the more reputable company across the street. It raises a lot of interesting questions. What is happening? Two Power Five head coaches have voluntarily left to take positions as assistants elsewhere throughout the last several weeks. It seemed unheard of.

Jeff Hafley departed Boston College after four seasons to become the defensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers. Hafley was replaced by Bill O’Brien, who had been Ohio State’s offensive coordinator for less than a month. Though abrupt, O’Brien’s decision made sense. He has a strong attachment to the place. Additionally, it was a chance for the Boston native, who previously served as an assistant to the New England Patriots, to oversee his own program. His final two years as a college head coach were spent in 2012–2013 as the head coach of Penn State.

Kelly’s choice appears to have been a calculated gamble at first view. For what reason did he do this? Was it his dread of seeming like a lame duck the next season? In his six years, UCLA (8-5, 4-5 Pac-12) finished 35-34.Considering what Kelly had accomplished at Oregon (46-7 in four seasons), he had an unimpressive record.

Bruce Feldman of The Athletic claims that Kelly was troubled by UCLA’s inability to compete financially for personnel and lack of funding. Kelly has been planning her getaway for a while. According to reports, he had an interview for Cincinnati’s job last year. Recent rumors connected him to positions as offensive coordinators in the NFL.

Kelly took the greatest option available to him since he wasn’t given those jobs. He left when he got the chance to work for a company that was vying for a national title.

Kelly is going to see a former student again. Ryan Day, the head coach of Ohio State, was an assistant and quarterback at New Hampshire during Kelly’s tenure as an offensive coordinator. Working for a person who is friendly is always preferable. Kelly possesses one of the greatest football minds in history. He’ll presumably replace Day, who has been under fire recently for trailing Michigan in the play-calling, right now.

Ohio State might benefit from this action. But given how disorganized everything is, you have to ask yourself if this is how college football will go in the future. Are Kelly and Hafley’s resignations the beginning of a pattern or are they just one-off events? A year from now, we could never have guessed that head coaches of power conferences would be joining regular playoff contenders as assistants.

In 2025, how will college football be different? More surprises are to be expected.

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