With Chad Powers , co-creators Michael Waldron and Glen Powell had some pretty lofty ambitions.

Adapting Eli Manning’s viral ESPN sketch into a half-hour comedy series for Hulu , they wanted audiences to walk away thinking they’d just witnessed “the greatest college football you’ve ever seen on screen,” Powell proclaims.

And listen, they know how that sounds. The greatest college football audiences have ever seen, at least in a scripted series? That seems like quite a serious undertaking for a half-hour comedy about a disgraced former college football player who sets off to redeem himself by catfishing his way into becoming the quarterback for an underdog team in south Georgia. Well, that’s because it is.

“[The idea] start[ed] with me and Glen, who have been pals for a while

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