College football coaches proudly live in bubbles. During preseason camp, they claim to know almost nothing that happens outside the fortified walls or tarped fences of their football complexes.
But there are certain questions so compelling that they resonate around the sport.
• How will Jalen Hurts fare at Oklahoma after transferring from Alabama?
• Who enters 2019 as the nation's top quarterback: Clemson sophomore Trevor Lawrence or Alabama junior Tua Tagovailoa, who replaced Hurts in Tuscaloosa?
• How long will Urban Meyer stay away from coaching, especially as a potential vacancy looms at USC?
We posed these questions and others to FBS head coaches and assistants, granting anonymity so they could speak freely.
Here's a look at what could be coming for some of college football's most prominent people in 2019.