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College football coaches talk constantly about controlling what they can control. They know that, at the heart of this billion-dollar industry lies a very silly, very random game. The pointy ball, the transient and unreliable collections of 18- to 23-year-old men, the extreme physicality that produces lots of injuries ... coaches know that even if they recruit well, develop players well and deploy sturdy tactics, sometimes the breaks are simply going to go against them.