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We all thought the last college football opening in the FBS had been filled after UCF announced the hiring of Gus Malzahn on February 15. Sanford was the offensive coordinator at Notre Dame when he was hired away from the Irish after the 2016 season. Some school's results have been altered by retroactive NCAA penalties. The winningest coach in Notre Dame history leaves behind a team that isn't out of the running to make the College Football Playoffs. He ushered the program into the FBS in 2012. FAU on Thursday, December 1, announced Tom Herman as head coach. He was not permitted to be with the team for the following week's 35-30 loss to Arizona State and was fired the next day. The 2005 NFL Rookie of the Year, Williams had a seven-year NFL career before entering the coaching ranks. Sarkisian stayed with the Tide through the national championship win over Ohio State, 52-24, on January 11. The former Western Kentucky quarterback, and later WKU head coach, has quickly built a reputation as a man with great recruiting strengths and the ability to rebuild programs in a hurry. He is 5-0 in bowl games. Derek Mason was fired on Sunday, November 29, one day after he played a significant role in college football history. His 2012 squad tied for the SEC's eastern division title, but couldn't play for the SEC Championship because of a tie-breaking loss to rival Georgia. On November 2, Georgia Southern announced Helton was the new head coach in Statesboro. Jones had a career record of 84-54 as head coach of the Vols, Cincinnati and Central Michigan and has a 4-2 record in bowl games. but had the interim tag removed on December 15 and became the official head coach. Rice fired 11-year head coach David Bailiff on November 27. Lunsford has spent a total of 9 seasons with the program, including the last 5. The Hilltoppers announced the firing of Mike Sanford on November 25, a day after the team finished the 2018 season with its worst record (3-9) since Willie Taggart's first season in 2010. presented at a Hawaii state senate hearing. Johnson announced his retirement on November 28, stating that it would become effective after the Quick Lane Bowl game with Minnesota. But, Kelly's departure could give that very same committee a pause for concern. In all, Rutgers was 27-24 overall during his tenure and 12-19 in conference games. Haynes was fired the day before Thanksgiving (November 23) following a 2-10 season and a 14-45 mark over 5 years at the school. Tennessee officials on December 7 confirmed the hiring of Jeremy Pruitt as its next head coach. The former Texas high school coach (2005-2012) spent the last two seasons at Texas Tech as RB coach and the 2015 season as associate head coach. Running backs coach Vai Taua was named interim head coach for the Wolf Pack's Quick Lane Bowl game against Western Michigan on December 27 which Nevada lost 52-24. The promotion occurred after the Eagles earned consecutive wins of 52-0 over South Alabama and 34-24 over Louisiana-Lafayette. Based on internal comments, Sarkisian was alleged to have shown up intoxicated at team meetings and may have been under the influence during the Washington game. The college football coaching carousel is spinning and, even though it's nowhere close to stopping, it's already had a major impact on recruiting. Before taking the job in Mobile, Campbell had zero losing campaigns in 19 seasons as a head coach at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (won 2007 JUCO national title), Delta State (won 2000 D-2 title), and Central Arkansas (two FCS tournament bids). Georgia 's DC Dan Lanning was named on Saturday, December11 as the new head coach at Oregon. However, Tracy Claeys was the acting or interim head coach for 7 of those games and was 4-3, leaving Kill's official record at 25-26. On the same day, John Cohen, who has more than two decades as a coach and administrator in the Southeastern Conference, was named Athletics Director at Auburn. The Bearcats also played in the 2019 championship game and lost, and were in the hunt once again in 2022 until Tulane's 27-24 upset win at Cincinnati on November 26 in the final game of the regular season. But that team ended its season with a blowout 62-17 loss to Clemson and a 36-28 loss to Florida in the Orange Bowl to drop to 9-5. The Tampa Bay Bucs announced on January 24th that the NFL team had hired away Southern Miss head coach Todd Monken to serve as offensive coordinator. Oregon is his third head coaching stop after cutting his teeth at Western Kentucky. He was Meyer's offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Florida from 2005-2008, and Meyer's QB coach at Utah (2003-2004) and Bowling Green (2001-2002). 2022 college football coaching changes tracker. The Arizona job became vacant when Rich Rodriguez was fired on January 2. Charlotte was a 14.5-point favorite in that game. Frost was hired after leading UCF to marks of 19-7 over-all and 12-4 in American Conference play over the course of the 2016 and 2017 seasons. Bobo just joined the program this year as offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach after losing his job as head coach at Colorado State at the of a 4-8 campaign in 2019. On Sunday (November 28), USC announced Lincoln Riley as its new head coach. Taylor replaces former star quarterback Tim Lester who was jettisoned on November 28 after a 5-7 season. After Brohm announced he was leaving Western Kentucky, the school appointed defensive coordinator Nick Holt as interim coach for the Hilltoppers' Boca Raton bowl game against Memphis on December 20 which WKU won. Kent State on December 14 offically named Minnesota RB coach Kenni Burns as head coach. He replaces Geoff Collins who was announced on December 7 as Georgia Tech's replacement for Paul Johnson. He left Houston with a 35-17 record. With the Gators, Spurrier went 122-27-1 and a remarkable 87-12 in the SEC. Miami won its last 5 games of 2016 and the first 10 games of 2017, but has since fallen apart. Each of those would be his only winning season at those schools and he has a career record of 46-65. On December 2, Southern Miss hired Tulane OC Will Hall to become the new head coach. Before Arizona's announcement of firing Rodriguez, the last empty seat on the 2018 coaching carousel had been filled on Monday December 18 when Kent State hired Syracuse's Sean Lewis to replace Paul Haynes. Edsall was hired for a second stint as head coach in December of 2016, but failed to recapture the magic of his 1999-2010 tenure when he oversaw the transition from the FCS to the FBS (classified as 1-AA and 1-A at the time). Former Boise State backup QB (2000-2004) and Western Kentucky QB Coach (2010), Mike Sanford, Jr. had filled what was thought to be the final head coaching vacancy when he was hired at Western Kentucky on December 14. It was announced on December 1 that Rutgers and Greg Schiano had reached an agreement for his return as head coach. The latter loss was a 38-10 setback to the Utes in the PAC-12 Championship game. Moorehead spent just two seasons in Starkville, compiling a 14-12 record over-all, a 7-9 mark in SEC play and an 0-2 bowl record. He's had a different place to work almost every year since beginning his coaching career in 2007 as a graduate assistant at Baylor, but he spent two seasons with the Bulls back in 2012 and 2013 as a DB coach, co-DC and recruiting coordinator. Wilson was 26-47 in 6 seasons with back-to-back bowl appearances in each of the last 2 seasons. The Huskies were 3-9 this season and just 11-26 in 3 seasons under Diaco. Aug 29, 2020. His first game as head coach of the Rockets was a 42-41 Military Bowl victory over Air Force. He was 84-43 in 10 seasons with the Red Raiders where his team was co-champs of the conference in his next-to-last season (2008), but he was just 47-33 in Big 12 play. The Pirates fired Scottie Montgomery on November 29 after a 3-8 season and finished the season two days later with a 58-3 loss to N.C. State with defensive coordinator David Blackwell serving as the interim head coach. McNair collapsed on May 29 while running as a punishment, and died June 13. Over the last three season, his teams finished 24-10 and captured two MAC East titles, but lost in both conference championship games. Miami introduced Richt as its new head coach on Friday (December 4). Subsequently, he went undrafted and bounced around several NFL, Arena League and CFL clubs before landing his first coaching gig in 2017 as a grad assistant with SMU. On December 20, Georgia Southern confirmed the hiring of Colorado State defensive coordinator Tyson Summers as its replacement for Willie Fritz who moved on to Tulane. Central Michigan also won MAC Championship games in 2006 and 2007 and are 3-0 in the championship format era of 1997-present. On January 8, Rocky Long stepped down as the head football coach at San Diego State and the administration quickly handed the reins to defensive line coach, Brady Hoke. The move was announced on January 5. 5 min read The college football coaching carousel begins earlier and earlier each year. The Muschamp tenure ends in Columbia with not much to write home about. His career marks are 103-61 overall and a pedestrian 54-52 in the SEC. The former Minnesota head coach went 2-2 as the interim head coach at TCU after Gary Patterson was fired. He coached running backs at Oklahoma State prior to that, and also held positions with Southern Miss and Cal. Reports said Frost's hire was a done deal earlier in the week, but was kept under wraps out of respect for his current team with a pending conference championship and undefeated season on the line. Louisiana-Monroe announced on December 14 that it had hired McNeese State head coach Matt Viator to replace Todd Berry. Sumlin was considered to be a prize catch by Texas A&M after he had led Houston to a 12-0 record in 2011 before the Cougars fell to Southern Miss in the Conference USA Championship game. Key took over a 1-3 program and went 4-4 down the stretch as the team just missed out on a bowl game. It's the 6th time the Eagles have finished the regular season 6-6 (twice) or 7-5 (four times) in Addazio's 7-year tenure. Akron fired Tom Arth on November 4 after he spent just 27 games as head coach. Georgia Southern fired Tyson Summers on October 22 after an 0-6 start on the heels of a 5-7 campaign in 2016. Overall, Edsall is 96-104 as a head coach. Wide receivers coach Rich Gunnell will still handle head coaching duties for the bowl game as Hafley will remain with Ohio State through the playoffs. Kurt Roper was named interim coach for the season finale at Cal which the Buffs lost 33-21 to finish 5-7. Bobo had 3 consecutive 7-6 seasons from 2015-2017, but the Rams regressed to 3-9 in 2018. He was 26-24 with the program from 2009-2012. The Roadrunners were 22-26 in 4 seasons as a Football Bowl Subdivision school after going 4-6 in 2011 as a Football Championship Subdivision independent. The Greenville, North Carolina school announced December 13 that it lured away Duke offensive coordinator Scottie Montgomery to replace Ruffin McNeill who was fired on November 4. Luke had served alongside Freeze as co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach. Kent State ended that campaign with its first bowl appearance (lost 17-13 to Arkansas State in the GoDaddy.com Bowl) since 1972 and only its second in school history. Special teams coordinator Daniel Da Prato was named interim head coach and went 0-3. The Mean Green lost 48-27 at UTSA two days earlier. The Ram's job became available when Steve Addazio was fired on December 2 after a woeful two-season record of 4-12, including 3-9 in the Mountain West. He replaces Lincoln Riley who promptly resigned on Sunday, November 28 and headed to Los Angeles to become head coach at USC. Baylor on January 16 named Dave Aranda as its news head coach. Some compared the move to Nebraska's decision to fire Frank Solich after the 2003 season when he went 9-3 and was 58-19 over-all. To his credit, Freeze told reporters after Saturday's loss at New Mexico State, "I've communicated with Ian (McCaw, Liberty A.D.) that if someone ever wanted to talk to us that interested us, I would tell them." Leach leaves Washington State after a 6-7 season, his worst in Pullman since 2014. In his 12 seasons at the helm of the Irish, Kelly amassed records of 92-39 over-all, and went 9-0 as a Covid year member of the ACC in 2020. Overall, Edsall is 96-104 as a head coach. Each season, there are plenty of fired and hired head coaches in college football. Charlotte, a team projected to go 4-8 over-all and 3-5 in CUSA this season, fired head coach Will Healy on Sunday (October 23) after a 35-14 loss at home to FIU dropped the 49ers to 1-7, 0-4. Overall, NDSU has won 7 of the last 8 FCS championships. Additionally, the Cardinal had 43 players drafted, a total ranking tied for 13th nationally and tied for the most in the Pac-12. Overall, Wilder was 77-56. Nevada fired Polian on November 27 after a 5-7 season and a 23-27 four-year mark. Muschamp ended his tenure in Gainesville with a 28-21 overall record, and was 17-15 in the SEC. That move came just 3 days after Claeys was fired. Ironically, Key also has an extensive past with UCF as an assistant for 11 years before moving on to Alabama from 2016-2018. In 2017, Hernandez hung himself in prison after receiving a life sentence for murder. He has been the head coach at Lipscomb Academy in Nashville since 2019. His teams at Tennessee were 16-19 overall, 10-16 in SEC play, and 1-0 in bowl games. Texas Tech on November 8 announced that Baylor associate head coach Joey McGuire had been hired as the successor to Matt Wells and he will begin assembling a staff immediately. Now, he moves on to Oregon to replace Mark Helfrich who was fired even after getting the Ducks to the national championship game in 2014 (lost 49-20 to Ohio State). Before joining the Navy staff in 2019, Newberry was the DC and secondary coach at FCS member Kennesaw State from 2015-18. Before leaving for Colorado State, Bobo had served as QB coach and later as OC on the Georgia staff from 2001-2014. Prior to that, he spent 3 years with Frank Beamer at Virginia Tech. This was the third consecutive down year for New Mexico after Davie had gradually led them to a climb which peaked in 2016 with a 9-4 record overall and a share of first-place in the Mountain division. He was 35-16 in four seasons and 23-9 in Sun Belt games. His career record now stands at 35-38. He spent the last three seasons on Nick Saban's staff at Alabama. In fact, Zach Smith was a Graduate Assistant under Meyer at Florida in 2009 when the first instance of abuse came to light - shoving his pregnant wife against a wall. On Friday, December 10, the Virginia Cavaliers' website announced Clemson's offensive coordinator, Tony Elliott, as the new head coach in Charlottesville. He also guided the program to the MAC Championship game last season (lost to Toledo). If the captain did a bad job, you could just overthrow him.". It was a far cry from what Purdue thought they would get after Hazell led Kent State to the MAC Championship in 2012 (lost 43-37 in overtime to Northern Illinois), an 11-3 overall record, an 8-0 regular season conference record, and a final No. McElwain was 22-12 when he was fired halfway through his third season at Florida (2015-2017) and was 22-16 while rebuilding the Colorado State program from 2012-2014. Unfortunately, that was Vanderbilt's 9th straight loss and Mason departs with a record of 27-55 in nearly 7 full seasons. All rights reserved. Kinne, who just turned 34 the previous day, spent the 2022 season in his first head coaching gig leading Incarnate Word to a 10-1 regular season and he will stay with the Cardinals throughout their survival in the FCS Playoffs. He was 69-46 overall, but just 33-39 in the SEC. Troy announced on Monday, November 22 that Chip Lindsey had been fired. This is his first head coaching gig. Old Dominion on December 9 landed Penn State offensive coordinator Ricky Rahne to succeed Bobby Wilder who resigned on December 2 after a 1-11 season. Former Hawaii record-setting QB, Timmy Chang, was announced as the school's new head coach on Saturday, January 22. the Knights won a double-overtime thriller, sealing the deal with an interception on the Tigers' potential game-tying possession. He has a 1-2 bowl record with the school. I have great respect and admiration for Paul and the legacy of him and his family at the University of Wisconsin. His teams were 4-0 in bowl games. Defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard was immediately named interim head coach. UMass finished the season 1-11. This past year's 8-4 mark was actually his second-best season with the Mountaineers. With the Cougars, Leach compiled an over-all record of 55-47 and had just a single co-divisional title in his next-to-last season (2018). He was hired away from Boise State on December 22 , 2020 after Gus Malzahn was fired on December 13. East Carolina basically went down the street to find its new head coach. He served as offensive line coach and associate head coach under Drinkwitz. On Sunday (November 26), Mullen was named the new head coach at Florida, opening the vacancy at MSU. His teams either tied for, or won outright, the Big Sky title in each of his seasons. 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