Diehard college football fans Glen Powell and Michael Waldron are going to ask you what college football team you root for if you talk to them about their new show, “Chad Powers.” There’s a decent chance they’d ask you even if you didn’t bring up the sport at all.

“Chad Powers,” a new Hulu comedy, follows Powell as Russ Holliday, a troubled former college football star, eight years after he makes a fatal mistake on the field: celebrating a touchdown before reaching the end zone, leading to a turnover and eventual loss in the Rose Bowl. Russ finds a second wind when he tries out for a college football team as a walk-on quarterback, wearing heavy prosthetics and acting under the guise of a fabricated identity: Chad Powers. He gets the idea after seeing a billboard for “Mrs. Doubtfire” out

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