At Baylor, Rhule repeated the turnaround success he had at Temple where his first two team was 1-11, but his next three seasons saw the Owls go a cumulative 26-13. Lovie Smith's teams were 17-39 overall and a paltry 10-33 in league games in five seasons with the school with zero winning seasons and a best division finish of fourth. The school also fired athletics director, Julie Herrmann, and named her successor, Pat Hobbs. Almost simultaneous with Liberty's hiring of Chadwell was Coastal Carolina's announcement of NC State offensive coordinator Tim Beck as the new head in Conway, South Carolina. It was his 5th season at the San Marcos school where he also served as head coach from 1990-1991 when it was called Southwest Texas State University. The Texas State job came open when Dennis Franchione, age 64, announced his retirement from coaching on December 22. He replaces Sean Kugler who was in the midst of his 5th season in El Paso when he resigned from his alma mater on October 1 after an 0-5 start. He replaces Jeff Brohm who took the same position at Purdue (December 5). Lanning spent the last four seasons on Kirby Smart's staff, beginning as outside linebackers coach in 2018. Solich was 115-82 overall, 77-46 in the MAC. Do you have a sports website? The Panthers won just 1 of their last 19 games under Davis and that was against FCS member LIU at the start of the 2021 season. Prior to that, he spent 3 years with Frank Beamer at Virginia Tech. The move came after his 8th season in Morgantown produced a 3-4 finish after a 5-0 start. Nevada on Friday (December 10) named Oregon co-defensive coordinator Ken Wilson as its new head coach afterJay Norvell quit earlier in the week (Monday, December 6) to fill the same the position at Colorado State. On Sunday (November 28), USC announced Lincoln Riley as its new head coach. Arroyo's three-year record was just 7-23 (.233) over-all, including 5-17 in Mountain West play. During that tenure, he led the Scarlet Knights to 6 bowl games and won each of the last 5. Snyder returned in 2005 after failing to reach a bowl game in two straight seasons. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. With Ohio State preparing for the Final 4 Playoffs, Fickell said he will remain with the school until its' playoff run is over. That move came just 3 days after Claeys was fired. The decision came at the end of a week in which Pinkel gave his support to members of the football team who were threatening to boycott, amid racial tensions, the upcoming game against BYU in Kansas City if the school didn't fire it's president. Georgia 's DC Dan Lanning was named on Saturday, December11 as the new head coach at Oregon. Champions: LSU (BCS,NFF,USA-ESPN)USC (AP,FWAA), Heisman Memorial Trophy: Jason White(Oklahoma), Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award:Nick Saban(LSU), Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Wednesday, January 18, 11:40AM. The NCAA on December 1 announced its penalties which added 2018 to the bowl ban and a further reduction of scholarships. Open Positions are listed at the top, filled positions at the bottom Coaching Changes: Air Shaw resigned on November 26 after the Cardinal finished their 3-9 season with a 35-26 loss at home to BYU. Toledo's interim head coach for the upcoming bowl game will not be defensive coordinator Jon Heacock, as previously announced, since Candle was promoted from within. He spent 5 years with the Warhawks, going 19-39 overall and 15-24 in Sun Belt games. Nevada fired Polian on November 27 after a 5-7 season and a 23-27 four-year mark. Les Miles was 114-34 in a little more than 11 seasons at LSU from 2005-2016, and his 2007 team won the BCS national championship. Turner was 10-30 at the Miami school. Miles was fired 3 years later after a 2-2 start to the 2016 football season. He previously held the same post with Wisconsin and Minnesota, as well as his alma mater. As a matter of policy, Sports Reference only reports the results of games as played on the field. The situation with the Beavers didn't work out and he was just 7-23 when he and the school mutually agreed to part ways halfway through the 2017 season. The following Monday (October 12), that leave became permanent with the announcement of his firing. As for Harsin, the school said very little on its website and only offered a one paragraph release that said, "Auburn University has decided to make a change in the leadership of the Auburn University football program. He is 95-61 over-all, including 31-23 in conference games. He was one of just four current head coaches inducted into the College Football Hall Of Fame. Sumlin had led his teams to 9 bowl games in 10 seasons, though he didn't coach in Houston's 2012 Ticket City Bowl win or the Aggies' Belk Bowl loss in December. 29: Number of FBS head coaching changes since the start of the 2021 season, tied for the third-most in one cycle. The UCF Knights are coming off a tumultuous, winless season that saw George O'Leary announce his immediate retirement on October 25 and the program finished the year with quarterbacks coach Danny Barrett as the interim replacement. Also on January 18, Joe Moglia stepped down from Coastal Carolina and handed the reins back over to Jamey Chadwell who went 3-9 as the interim head coach in 2017. Details were presented at a Hawaii state senate hearing earlier on Friday. Tulsa was 5-7 in 2022, but closed with an upset win at Houston. 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. He began his stint with the Mountaineers by going 4-8 in the school's final FCS season in 2013. The 38-year-old Napier is a former Furman quarterback who has also held assistant coaching positions at Alabama and Clemson. Virginia announced Mike London's resignation on November 29, though it sounded more like a firing. Georgia Southern Director of Athletics Jared Benko on September 26 announced that they were parting ways with head coach Chad Lunsford, who had led the Eagles to a 28-21 overall record in four-plus seasons. On Wednesday, December 23, Louisiana-Monroe announced Terry Bowden as its replacement for Matt Viator. The 50-year old Venables spent 12 seasons in Norman from 1999-2011 under former head coach Bob Stoops , the last eight of which he wore the titles of assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. He left the New York Jets to join the Chiefs amid a tampering charge, and was fired three years later by Kansas City. Colorado fired Karl Dorrell on October 2 after an 0-5 start and a 8-15 mark in his 23 games in Boulder . It's the first head coaching job for Wilcox who spent the 2015 and 2016 seasons at Wisconsin as defensive coordinator and previously worked at Cal as linebackers coach (2003-2005) under Jeff Tedford. 25 ranking in the BCS Standings after rising as high as No. The Louisville spot opened up when Scott Satterfield left for Cincinnati after Luke Fickell left the Bearcats to go to Wisconsin. Phil Bennett, who was hired last year a defensive coordinator, was named interim head coach for the Frisco Bowl on December 17 against Boise State. Two days later, Randy Edsall was announced as the not-so-new hire. Washington routed the Broncos in that game, 38-7, to send raise the final 2019 season record to 8-5 and his over-all record with the Huskies to 55-26. Pruitt began his collegiate coaching career under Saban as the Director of Player Development in 2007 and worked his way up to defensive backs coach before getting his first defensive coordinator gig with Florida State for its 2013 national championship season. For the 5 years he coached Appalachian State as a FBS team, Satterfeld was 47-16 overall and 34-6 in the Sun Belt. 500 in the SEC (6-2). Georgia Southern named running backs coach Dell McGee as interim head coach for the bowl game. Also on Saturday (November 27), Washington State removed the interim tag from Jake Dickert, the day after the Cougars won the Apple Cup rivalry game against Washington. Dykes' SMU team lost 4 of its last 5 games to finish 8-4 and he leaves the school with records of 30-18 over-all and 18-13 in the American Conference. New Mexico on December 17 named former punter and safety Danny Gonzales as the successor to Bob Davie to end the ride on this season's coaching carousel. Defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake was immediately named as the next head coach of the Huskies. Bennett's defense this year was 9th out of 11 CUSA programs and 124th out of 131 FBS schools in the nation. Hudspeth was 51-38 in 7 seasons, including 4-1 in the only bowl games the school has played in. The Houston job became available when Major Applewhite was unceremoniously let go on December 30 after his team went 1-4 down the stretch to finish 8-5. The school is 471-600-35 in its football history, but Snyder ended his 30-year reign with a record of 215-117-1. Mendenhall is a pedestrian 36-38 at Virginia, and just 22-27 in ACC games. Stanford on Saturday, December 10, announced Troy Taylor as David Shaw's successor after Taylor's Sacramento Hornets fell 66-63 to Incarnate Word in the FCS Playoff quarterfinals. Georgia Southern on November 27 removed the interim tag from Chad Lunsford's title. Under Canales, the Mean Green went 1-6. After Heupel arrived in 2016, the Tigers led the SEC and were 13th nationally. He is 5-5 in bowl games. Here are the college football head coaching changes for this year. He took GSU to the Cure Bowl at the end of the 2015 season and expectations were high for a repeat bowl trip in 2016. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Leonhard replaces Paul Chryst, who was in his eighth season as the Badgers' head coach. 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. East Carolina basically went down the street to find its new head coach. This changes how coaches coach. It didn't take long for Helton to find a new head coaching gig, though he moved across the country and out of the Power 5 to fill the vacancy at Georgia Southern. Wells was 13-17 over-all in Lubbock and just 7-16 in the Big 12. A December 6 article on SFGate.com brought the allegations to light. He was 1-3 as the interim head coach at Texas Tech after Matt Wells was fired mid-season. Taylor spent the 2022 season as the Cardinals' offensive coordinator after spending three years in charge of the running game at Notre Dame. Oregon offensive coordinator Scott Frost was announced December 1 as the new head coach at Central Florida. On Tuesday, November 29, Georgia Tech was that school when it retained Brent Key as head coach by removing the interim tag. He was fired by Maryland halfway through the 2015 season. On November 25, UCLA announced Chip Kelly as its new head coach. For his career, Miles' won-loss record is 145-73 overall. Harsin was 9-12 over-all and 4-9 in SEC games in his short tenure. The 63-year-old is 26 years older than the guy they fired earlier this season, Will Healy. Mike Jinks was fired by Bowling Green on October 14 and Carl Pelini was named interim head coach for the remainder of the season. Florida State offensive coordinator Walt Bell was hired Monday, December 3 as the new head coach at UMass. He most recently served as a receivers coach at Nevada and was going to follow Jay Norvell to Colorado State. He's a Miami, Florida native. From 1996-99, the school sports hall-of-fame member (inducted 2011) passed for 11,299 yards and 89 touchdowns while setting 17 school records. It was the second time he led UNT to the CUSA title game and lost (2017). The first and only head coach of the 49ers oversaw the development of the program and its quick ascent from the FCS to the FBS. Chow, like Beamer, is 69 years old. Morris spent 3 seasons as the head coach at SMU, following a 4-year stint as the offensive coordinator at Clemson. The move is more than a bit surprising, given that the Thundering Herd just played in the conference championship game for the first time since 2014. On Wednesday, July 14, Frank Solich announced his immediate retirement after 16 seasons as the head coach of the Ohio Bobcats. While Meyer was serving a suspension at the start of the season for the lack of action taken earlier in the Zach Smith domestic abuse allegations, Day went 3-0 as interim head coach..Smith was the tight ends coach who was fired in July after a judge issued a protection order that forbade Smith from getting within 500 feet of the accuser who is now his ex-wife. The Mean Green lost 48-27 at UTSA two days earlier. It was the program's best mark under Campbell who was hired in 2018 to replace the architect of the program, Joey Jones. He left Louisville in 2009 to rejoin Schnellenberger at FAU, but then moved on to Illinois, UAB and Western Kentucky (under Petrino) before replacing Petrino as head coach in 2015. The only thing that happened since then was a 55-23 demolition of Colorado in the Alamo Bowl. Louisiana-Monroe announced on December 14 that it had hired McNeese State head coach Matt Viator to replace Todd Berry. He was fired by Maryland halfway through the 2015 season. He was 34-20 vs. PAC-12 foes and a 2-4 in bowl games at Washington. The odd thing in this move is that the offense will keep the same triple-option attack its been running since the Paul Johnson days. It was later announced that Jerry Kill will replace Martin. Overall, NDSU has won 7 of the last 8 FCS championships. The NCAA on December 1 announced its penalties which added 2018 to the bowl ban and a further reduction of scholarships.Freeze was 39-25 in five seasons, but 5-7 in 2016. Edsall was the head coach of the Huskies from 1999-2010 and oversaw the transition from the FCS to the FBS (classified as 1-AA and 1-A at the time). Harsin resigned to take the head coaching job at Auburn on December 22 after Gus Malzahn was fired on December 13. Periodically, his career also involved stops at some of the premier college programs in the nation, including UCLA, Miami and Michigan. He replaces Bronco Mendenhall who issued his resignation as head coach on Thursday, December 2. Things have officially gone full circle at Fresno State where Jeff Tedford on Wednesday (December 8) was hired for a second time to lead the Bulldogs. Clark announced his 'retirement' on June 24, 2022 - before the 2022 season began - due to back issues after he had been told by doctors that he needed a spinal fusion. Co-offensive coordinator T.J. Weist was named interim coach for South Florida's Birmingham Bowl game which the Bulls won, 46-39 in OT over South Carolina. Cutcliffe and Duke mutually separated on Sunday (November 28) after a third straight losing season (3-9) that included a winless ACC campaign (0-8). Rumors of his impending dismissal came to light in the days leading up to that game. Arizona completed a 7-6 season with a loss to Purdue in the Foster Farms Bowl. He had the same history in Atlanta, where he led the Falcons to a division title in his first campaign 2004 (11-5), but followed that up with campaigns of 8-8 and 7-9. Edsall was 22-34 in 4+ seasons at College Park. He was 26-24 with the program from 2009-2012. The fan base had directed its displeasure at Tuberville for weeks, and the chorus grew louder when the Bearcats endured a 3-game stretch near the end of the season in which they scored a total of 13 points. His records in Ruston were 64-50 over-all and 43-27 in Conference USA. Lovie Smith was announced on March 7 as the new head coach at Illinois. Three years and 5 days after being fired from Texas, Charlie Strong was given the boot from USF on December 1. Since starting 7-0 in 2017, TCU has been a .500 ball club (25-25). For his career, Orgeron is 67-47. Five days after Sumlin was fired from A&M, Fisher resigned from FSU and was immediately announced as the head coach of the Aggies. In all, Rutgers was 27-24 overall during his tenure and 12-19 in conference games. Richt was a backup quarterback to Jim Kelly at Miami (1979-1982) and later served for several years as a Graduate Assistant, QB coach and OC under Bobby Bowden at Florida State. Interim head coach Greg Knox became the fourth person to lead Florida in the past 8 seasons and he led the Gators to a 24-21 win over Florida State to prevent the 'Noles from becoming bowl eligible. Diaz led Miami to a 5-1 finish in 2021 to end the season at 7-5 and in 2nd-place in the ACC's Coastal division. On December 7, Louisiana-Monroe announced the firing of Matt Viator with one game left in an 0-10 season. The program was ruled ineligible for bowl consideration by the NCAA due to self-reported academic violations that occurred in 2015 and 2016. Brian Brohm, Jeff's younger brother by more than 14 years, was named as Purdue's interim head coach for the bowl season. He was 42-13 with 2 playoff appearances (1-2) at New Haven, and 23-34 in 5 seasons (2014-2018) at CCSU, but had a 14-9 mark over his last two years and led that school to the playoffs in 2017. He has a career mark of 25-38. 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. See our list of forfeits and vacated games for more details. Stoops was named interim head coach for the bowl season. 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 players ultimately backed down when they were assured the suspended athletes would get a fair hearing and the Golden Gophers went on to defeat Washington State in the Holiday Bowl. 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