The NFL had Ballers, Dwayne Johnson’s five-season saga of unsportsmanlike conduct. High school football had Friday Night Lights — at its peak, one of the best shows on TV. But not since Craig T. Nelson’s Coach put down its whistle nearly three decades ago has the college game put serious points on the scripted-television board. Now, with the premiere of Hulu’s sweetly imbecilic Chad Powers, that long scoreless stretch looks set to end. 

The six-episode series is produced by Eli and Peyton Manning, among others. As such, the prevailing tone is more than a little reminiscent of the elder sibling’s Nationwide Insurance ads: Motivatin’ Manning, but with swears. The star of the show, Twisters’s Glen Powell, plays Russ Holliday, a washed-up Oregon quarterback turned conspiracy theorist and lout. When, inspired by his father’s job as a Hollywood prosthetics man, Russ creates an alter-ego, a new Division 1 career is launched. Before long, and thanks to a fake schnoz that deserves its own “worst makeup” Emmy, our hero is back on the field as the eponymous, ridiculous Chad Powers.