2003 college football coaching changes

His 2006 team made it to the NCAA Championship, losing 28-17 to Appalachian State. That gives him an insane 79-9 mark over-all. Hudspeth was 51-38 in 7 seasons, including 4-1 in the only bowl games the school has played in. 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. The former Minnesota head coach went 2-2 as the interim head coach at TCU after Gary Patterson was fired. Two days later, Randy Edsall was announced as the not-so-new hire. Hawaii was his first and only head coaching gig after years as a well-respected offensive coordinator for BYU, N.C. State, USC and others. Fritz was 17-7 in 2 seasons at Georgia Southern where he led the Eagles to the Sun Belt title in 2014. His teams were 51-20 in the Mountain West. Web2003 Alabama: Hired Washington State head coach Mike Price to the same position after Dennis Franchione resigned from the job. He sough rehabilitation and resurfaced as an Alabama assistant in 2016, spent two seasons with the Atlanta Falcons, and returned to the Tide in 2019. Tedford replaces Kalen DeBoer who replaced Tedford when Tedford took a sabbatical for health reasons after the 2019 season. Malzahn will reap a buyout from Auburn of $21.7 million, half of which he has already banked, after being fired on December 13 following a 6-4 campaign. He was just 4-26 in nearly 3 full seasons and 3 of those wins came against FCS members Howard, Florida A&M and The Citadel . Furthermore, 19 of the school's 21 bowl appearances came under Snyder, including all 9 bowl victories. WebContents 1 Rules changes 2 Conference and program changes 3 Regular season top 10 matchups 4 Conference standings 5 Bowl Championship Series rankings 6 Final BCS rankings 7 Bowl games 7.1 BCS bowls 7.2 Other New Year's Day bowls 7.3 December Bowl Games 8 Heisman Trophy voting 9 Other major awards 10 References Rules changes [ He was one of just four current head coaches inducted into the College Football Hall Of Fame. 2018 produced KSU's first losing regular season (5-7) since Snyder's return to the sideline. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. Tracy Claeys had the interim tag removed from his title on November 11 and signed a 3-year contract as head coach for Minnesota. On December 21, Clark's first game as head coach was a 31-17 win over UAB in the New Orleans Bowl. Comments seemed to suggest Collins will not stay with Florida for its Outback Bowl game with Iowa on January 2. Seth Littrell was announced December 6 as the new head coach at North Texas. Blake Anderson resigned as the head coach of the Red Wolves on December 10 to fill the vacancy at Utah State. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. The dismissal "with cause" prevented Pruitt from receiving a buyout settlement, but will almost surely result in a lawsuit. Sarkisian stayed with the Tide through the national championship win over Ohio State, 52-24, on January 11. At Louisville, Satterfeld filled the vacancy left by the firing of Bobby Petrino on November 11, two days after the Cardinals fell to 2-8 with a 54-23 loss to Syracuse. Former Florida head coach Jim McElwain is the replacement for John Bonamego at Central Michigan, the school announced on Sunday, December 2. For an encore, his 2019 squad went 11-3 with just one regular season loss to Oklahoma, another loss to the Sooners in the Big 12 Championship game and a Sugar Bowl bowl loss to Georgia. Maryland gave Randy Edsall the boot on October 11, the day after a 49-28 loss to Ohio State. 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). Before coaching at Western Michigan, Burns was an assistant at North Dakota State. 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. 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. Lanning spent the last four seasons on Kirby Smart's staff, beginning as outside linebackers coach in 2018. He was fired by Maryland halfway through the 2015 season. His 2007 team won the BCS National Title game 38-24 over Ohio State. UConn on November 11 announced the somewhat surprising hiring of Jim Mora as head coach to the tune of a reported $1.1 million a year in total compensation. His extensive resume includes NFL stops at Indianapolis and Oakland. Arizona fired Kevin Sumlin on Saturday, December 12, the day after a 70-7 beatdown was administered by rival Arizona State for the Wildcats' 12th straight loss. Petersen's last game on the sideline was the Las Vegas Bowl which was dubbed the "Chris Petersen Bowl" as it had him facing him fomrer team, Boise State. This will be Freeze's second stint in the SEC after he was embarrassingly forced out at Ole Miss in 2016 as a messy trail of public relations issues and NCAA violations dating back to the Houston Nutt era came to a head when it was learned that Freeze had several calls to an escort service found on school-issued phone. BYU on December 19 announced Kalani Sitake as its new head coach following BYU's loss to Utah in the Las Vegas Bowl which served as the final game for Bronco Mendenhall. For his career, Orgeron is 67-47. 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. Luke first took the reins as the interim head coach for the 2017 season after Hugh Freeze resigned just 44 days before the 2017 opener. Shaw's 96 overall wins rank ninth in Pac-12 history while his 65 conference victories rank fifth. Elliott spent 11 seasons at Clemson which won national titles in 2016 and 2018 and six straight ACC titles from 2015-2020. He was 0-2 in the two bowls in which he did perform the HC duties. Unfortunately, the 54-year-old had to announce his 'retirement' on Friday, June 24, due to back issues and says he has been told by doctors that he needs a spinal fusion. resigned due to health reasons on December 6 following a 4-8 season. East Carolina basically went down the street to find its new head coach. He was 46-24 overall and 36-13 in conference play. 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. 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. Dillingham, a 2013 ASU graduate, began coaching at age 17 when he tore his ACL at Chaparral High School in Scottsdale. He began his stint with the Mountaineers by going 4-8 in the school's final FCS season in 2013. He was an assistant on Bill McCartney's Colorado staff in 1992 and 1993, and again under Rick Neuheisel from 1995-1998. but had the interim tag removed on December 15 and became the official head coach. He resigned from Florida after the 2001 season to coach the Washington Redskins in the NFL in 2002 and 2003, but left that job after achieving little success. Over-all, he is 106-72 in a career that has also seen stints at (in order) Rice (1 season) Tulsa (4), Pittsburgh (1) and Arizona (6). At Fuente's request, his staff at Virginia Tech will include Bud Foster, the long-time defensive coordinator under Beamer. Fleck who made the jump from the MAC to the Big Ten when it was announced on January 6 that Fleck was hired to replace Tracy Claeys at Minnesota. Former coach Deion Sanders (Dec. 3) 12-0 record in 2022, 27-5 in three overall seasons; named new Colorado coach, but will coach JSU through Celebration Bowl on Dec. 17. His teams were 20-12 in Conference USA games and 1-2 in bowl games. Hawaii is coming off a 10-5 season in which it won the MWC West division title and defeated BYU in the Hawaii Bowl. Stanford achieved 29 wins against top-25 opponents (ranking eighth nationally since 2011), 11 against top-10 programs and five against top-5 foes. Three years and 5 days after being fired from Texas, Charlie Strong was given the boot from USF on December 1. If the captain did a bad job, you could just overthrow him.". Wells came to the Red Raiders after a six-year stint at Utah State where was twice named conference coach of the year and finished 44-34. Former Hawaii quarterback and assistant coach, Nick Rolovich, was announced November 27 as the new head coach of Hawaii in 2016. Napier was 40-12 with the Ragin' Cajuns, including 12-1 this year. In his lone season at Seattle (2009) the Seahawks were 5-9. 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. Houston on December 9 promoted from within and named former Texas quarterback Major Applewhite to replace Tom Herman as head coach after Herman left to accept the job with, ironically, Texas. These days, those were numbers would seem almost average, but it was a different era in college football. Jay Norvell, Charlie Strong's tight ends coach in 2015 at Texas, was announced as the new head coach at Nevada on December 9, replacing Bill Polian. He was 4-7 in his first-ever head coaching gig at Southern Utah. In all, Rutgers was 27-24 overall during Flood's tenure and 12-19 in conference games. This year's team was 4-8 overall and 2-6 in the MWC. The Bulls were 1-8 when they fired Jeff Scott on November 6, the day after a blowout 54-28 loss to Temple (3-6). The Bulls defeated Charlotte 31-9 in the 2019 Bahamas Bowl. His career record is 71-80 with 5 bowl bids in 13 seasons. Kansas on April 30 named Lance Leipold as its new head coach, two months after Les Miles was fired. The final straw may have been a call to an escort service found on Freeze's school-issued phone after Nutt filed suit against Freeze and Ole Miss in federal court a week earlier for allegedly orchestrating a smear campaign against him. He was 15-21 overall, and only 6-18 in SEC games. Minds were blown on Sunday (October 2) when the completely unanticipated news began peppering Twitter that Wisconsin had fired Paul Chryst after a 2-3 start. Georgia 's DC Dan Lanning was named on Saturday, December11 as the new head coach at Oregon. 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 then bounced around the country with several schools including Florida State and Auburn as offensive coordinator and QB coach. Its harder to win than ever. Bailiff was a cumulative 57-80 overall with a 40-48 mark in Conference USA games. Offensive line coach Pete Rossomando was named interim head coach after joining the staff from Vanderbilt following the 2020 season. His coaching career includes stints with the New Jersey Red Dogs of the Arena League, before moving on to multiple NFL stops. He becomes the permanent successor to Ron Turner who was the first head coach to be let go in 2016 (September 24) after just 4 games. Florida fired Jim McElwain in mid-season, following Georgia's 42-7 rout of the Gators in Jacksonville on October 28. He replaced P.J. Whipple was reprising the role he held from 1998-2003 when the Minutemen were playing at the 1-AA (now FCS) level and won the 1998 national championship. 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 38-15 in four seasons at Memphis, including 24-8 in the conference. Rhoads was fired on November 22, the day after a 38-35 loss to Kansas State in which the Cyclones coughed up a 21-point halftime lead. Lembo was 33-29 in 5 seasons at the Muncie, Indiana school, but the Cardinals backslid to 5-7 in 2014 and just 3-9 in 2015. Edwards hasn't coached a down of football in any capacity since he last served as head coach of the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs from 2006-2008. Just when everyone was expecting Alabama OC, and former Penn State/Houston Texans HC, Bill O'Brien to be announced, Virginia Tech flipped the script and went with defense, giving Pry his first head coaching gig. South Alabama on December 7 plucked Steve Campbell from Central Arkansas where he was 33-15 in 4 seasons. The 67-year-old will be inducted into the College Football Hall Of Fame on December 4. Kill deals with epileptic seizures and had a previous bout with kidney cancer in 2005. Also on Monday (November 29), Rhett Lashlee was announced as Sonny Dykes' replacement with SMU. Suffice it to say, it's a clouded legacy that Meyer leaves behind. Tulsa was 5-7 in 2022, but closed with an upset win at Houston. The Ohio State defensive coordinator (2014-2015) has been an FBS assistant since 2000 with the likes of Iowa State and Wisconsin, among others. His teams were just 3-18 in PAC-12 play. It will be the first head coaching gig for Walters who was a Broyles Award finalist in 2022 after guiding the Illini defense to Top 10 national rankings in 17 different defensive categories. 29 years later, the school has enjoyed 23 straight bowl appearances, 11 bowl victories, a national championship game, and 7 conference championships, all while playing in a generally sold out and dramatically improved 66,000-seat stadium on a campus with some of the best and newest facilities across the whole spectrum of athletics. Still, CMU hadn't even been to a bowl game since 2012 and the school's all-time bowl,record is just 3-8. Heupel was the Heisman Trophy runner-up in 2000 when he led Oklahoma to an undefeated season and a national championship with an 11-2 victory over Florida State, though FSU's Chris Weinke won the Heisman. His career record now stands at 35-38. His career mark is 147-38 for a ridiculous .795 winning percentage. The program had slipped to 14-28 over the last four seasons. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Solich was 115-82 overall, 77-46 in the MAC. 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. A familiar name, Ed Orgeron, steps in as interim coach. Rhule took over a Baylor program that went 1-11 in 2017 and led the Bears to a 6-win improvement in 2018. At UConn, Mora immediately becomes an assistant so he can get acquainted with the players and his new digs, as well as get a head start on recruiting. Before returning to Columbia for the 2015 season, Odom spent 3 years under Justin Fuente at Memphis. He becomes the 13th Alabama assistant hired as a head coach in the past 14 years. Brohm, the older one, was a start QB with the Cardinals and is in the stadium's Ring of Honor after a collegiate career (1989-1993) in which he threw for 5,451 yards with 38 TD's and 28 INT's under head coach Howard Schnellenberger. According to Wikipedia, Chang holds NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision all-time records for total plays (2,587), passes attempted (2,436), and interceptions (80). Don Brown on Monday, November 22 was named the head coach at UMass for a second time, replacing Walt Bell who was fired on November 7. Administrators said they were irked by McElwain's unsubstantiated comments that family members and players had received death threats. 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. Bowden brings a 25-year career record of 175-114-2 (.605) to the Warhawk's program, including marks of 47-17-1 at Auburn, and 35-52 at Akron. MacIntyre was 30-44 overall with the Buffaloes, but just 14-39 in PAC-12 games. After firing Taggart on November 3, Florida State installed defensive line coach Odell Haggins as interim head coach. Current head coach David Beatty was told in early November that he would not be retained for 2019, but was asked to coach out the season. Leach leaves Washington State after a 6-7 season, his worst in Pullman since 2014. There have been two NFL head coaching changes. 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. The announcement came on September 13, two days after a 42-28 loss at home to Stanford as a 17.5-point favorite. Considered to be one of the top offensive guru's in college football, Riley won the 2015 Broyles Award as the nation's top assistant. He was 26-24 with the program from 2009-2012. "I also have confidence in Jim Leonhard to guide the program for the remainder of the season. Bowden was fired on Sunday, December 2 after a 4-8 season, the school's worst showing since going 1-11 in his inaugural year at the helm in 2012. This is his second trip back to his alma mater as a coach, having held the QB coach responsibilities in 2005-06. Then, it snowballed on Monday, November 29th with reports that Brian Kelly is leaving Notre Dame to go to LSU. Desormeaux has been on the staff of the Ragin' Cajuns for the past six seasons and served as co-offensive coordinator this past season. He spent this season as the QB coach for the New England Patriots. Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart was announced December 6 as the new head coach at Georgia where he will replace Mark Richt. 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. He most recently served as a receivers coach at Nevada and was going to follow Jay Norvell to Colorado State. Tim Lappano was named his interim successor and, under his watch, Georgia State went 1-1. Kelly was 46-7 in 4 seasons at Oregon, reaching BCS bowls each season and losing 22-19 to Auburn in the 2010 season BCS national title game. The Chanticleers were 10-2 in a transition season in 2016. He spent the past 3 seasons as the AHC/DC at Arkansas. In college, Kinne was a 3-year starter at Tulsa after transferring from Texas. 5 min read The college football coaching carousel begins earlier and earlier each year. The Huskies were 3-9 this season and just 11-26 in 3 seasons under Diaco. The FCS's most successful program in recent history, North Dakota State, has lost head coach Chris Klieman to Kansas State. The LSU defensive coordinator replaces Matt Rhule who moved to the NFL's Carolina Panthers. He was an Auburn OA in 2013, but was hired by Todd Monken as his OC at Southern Miss for 2014-2015 before holding that same post at Arizona State for a year. His teams were 1-16 in Big 12 play. Gerad Parker was named to the interim position and the wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator guided Purdue to an 0-6 finish for a 3-9 overall finish. As a player at Auburn, Williams helped lead Auburn to an undefeated season in 2004 while earning All-America honors that year. On Wednesday, November 30, UAB announced on its website that it had hired former "14-year NFL veteran quarterback and Super Bowl XXXV Champion Trent Dilfer" as the official successor to Bill Clark. ODU moved up to the FBS in 2013 and hit a high water ark in 2016 with a 10-3 season that was capped off with its only bowl appearance and victory - a 24-20 win over Eastern Michigan in the Bahamas Bowl. A December 6 article on SFGate.com brought the allegations to light. He spent 2019 unemployed after accepting, then walking away from, the DC position with the New England Patriots. Buffalo replaced Leipold with Michigan's recently-hired Maurice Linguist a week later on May 7. A large number of players on the 2021 roster - 19 in all - have entered the transfer portal since November. Jones revitalized programs at Central Michigan and Cincinnati, leading to his hiring in Knoxville where his teams also showed improvement year-over-year until backsliding terribly in 2017. The Vols finished the season with two more losses after defensive line coach Brady Hoke took over in an interim capacity. It was a far cry from what Purdue thought they would get after Hazell led Kent State to the MAC Championship game 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. Former Northern Illinois running back Thomas Hammock was introduced on Friday, January 18, as the school's new head coach. Offensive coordinator Mike Sanford, Jr. took over as interim head coach and went 1-6. Helfrich had been promoted from OC when Chip Kelly left for the NFL. The NCAA Rules Committee adopted the following rules changes for the 2002 season: The penalty for violating the so-called "Halo Rule" (two yard restricted area around the punt/kick receiver) without making contact with the receiver is increased from five yards to 10 yards. Davie's firing was announced on November 25, but he coached the final game at home versus Utah State which the Lobos lost 38-25. His 4-year head coaching mark was 37-16, but just 13-12 over the last two seasons. He is 95-61 over-all, including 31-23 in conference games. Lake was the HC for less than two seasons, finishing 7-6 overall and 6-4 in the conference. Berry previously coached at Army (5-35) and Illinois State (24-24) for a career record of 57-102. Utah State named assistant head coach Frank Maile as interim head coach for the New Mexico Bowl where the Aggies rolled over North Texas 52-13. 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. This will be his first head coaching job. In his departure, he leaves a new stadium, vastly upgraded facilities, and a perennial winning program. At the age of 34, he was hired away from Austin Peay to replace the fired Brad Lambert after the 2018 season. On Wednesday, December 23, a 24-year career assistant landed his first job as a head football coach when Jedd Fisch was announced as Kevin Sumlin 's replacement at Arizona. He has a career mark of 25-38. Leach has an over-all career record of 139-90. 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. Unfortunately for Baylor fans, that performance caught the attention of NFL teams and Rhule was hired on January 7 as the new head coach at Carolina. Montgomery was 9-26 overall and 4-20 in American conference games. After being fired from Texas, Charlie Strong landed on his feet as the new head coach at USF. Over the last three seasons, his teams were 33-5 over-all, 22-2 in the Sun Belt, and 2-0 in bowl games. After a 5-year tenure as UCLA's head coach from 2003-2007, Dorrell has spent all but one of the past 12 seasons in the NFL, mostly coaching wide receivers. Frank Maile, the assistant head coach and co-defensive coordinator was named interim head coach. He was 37-7 in Big 12 play and just 1-3 in bowl games. Texas plucked Strong from Louisville after he led the Cards to a 23-3 record his last 2 years and a 37-15 mark in his 4-year tenure. The coaching changes here are for the 2013season and will carry over as into next year for the 2014 college football coach changes. His 2014 season was the only one in which the Bulldogs finished above. Kelly said goodbye to his players Tuesday morning, November 30th and then headed to Baton Rouge. That's the position he held last year with the Miami Dolphins where he had just been promoted to Assistant Head Coach on February 20. 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. Defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard was immediately named interim head coach. Hazell was 1-11 in 2013, followed by 3-9 in 2014 and 2-10 in 2015 for a cumulative record of 9-33. In Blacksburg, he rose his Alma mater's football significance from nonexistent to major status. He was the DC on UCF's Fiesta Bowl winning team in 2013. Brown was 69-46-1 in 10 seasons at North Carolina from 1988-1997, but never won an ACC title. At Liberty, Freeze was 34-15 in four seasons and 3-0 in bowl games. Overall, Fleck was 30-22 at WMU. Fresno State on November 9th announced the hiring of former Cal head coach Jeff Tedford. Tuberville saw the writing on the wall and gave himself a pink slip on December 4. 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. Temple won the Gasparilla Bowl in 2017 under Collins, but assistant head coach Ed Foley served as interim head coach of the Owls when they were ripped 56-27 by Duke in this year's Independence Bowl. Ed Orgeron was promoted on November 26 to head coach at LSU. Frank Wilson was fired by UTSA on December 1 after a 4-year mark of 19-29 that included a 13-19 Conference record. The loss dropped the Gators to 2-9 against Power 5 teams since the final 3 games of 2020. As a player, he spent time in the NFL, the WFL the CFL and Arena Football but never found success. His teams won 3 straight ACC titles from 2012-2014, and the 2013 squad went 14-0 and won the last Bowl Championship Series (BCS) national title. Overall, Tuberville was 29-22 in four seasons at Cincinnati with 3 bowl trips that resulted in 3 blowout losses. 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. Dykes began his tenure with the Mustangs by losing 51-10 to one of the two teams that he previously led as head coach, Louisiana Tech, in the Frisco Bowl. Pruitt replaces Butch Jones who was fired on November 12, the day after a 50-17 loss at Missouri dropped the Vols to 4-6 overall and 0-6 in the SEC. Rodriguez was 43-35 over 6 seasons with the school, but just 24-30 in PAC-12 play. That's a career head coaching mark of 3-31. The Chips went bowling in each of his first three seasons (2015-2017), though he never finished better than 8-5 and lost all 3 bowl games. Clark's team was 9-4 in 2021 and his career record at UAB was 49-26. Brennan spent the last 6 seasons as the wide receivers coach at Oregon State. The move had as much to do with over-all sentiment surrounding the coach, as it did wins and losses, after the school came under investigation for hosting recruits during a "dead period" after the Covid-19 pandemic season. Locksley's Terps went 1-5, managing to win the season finale over Rutgers, to improve his record to 3-31. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. The high water mark was a pair of .500 regular seasons, but both led to bowl losses. 2022 college football coaching changes tracker. Offensive coordinator Don Treadwell was acting head coach during that period. Malzahn was 68-35 overall at Auburn, and 39-27 in SEC play. The Mean Green fired Dan McCarney on October 12, just hours after a 66-7 home loss to FCS member Portland State on October 10 dropped UNT's record to 0-5. UNLV on Wednesday, December 7 introduced new head football coach Barry Odom. He served as offensive line coach and associate head coach under Drinkwitz. Cincinnati will be led in that game by interim head coach Kerry Coombs, a long-time assistant in college and the NFL who just joined Fickell's staff for the 2022 season after being let go by Ohio State. Martin was 25-74 in nine seasons with the Aggies as the school bounded from independent status to the Sun Belt and back to being an independent. The 'Canes are just 7-9 in their last 16 games. Do you have a sports website? The Tifton, Georgia native spent 1 year as the safeties coach at Georgia Southern in 2006. The 'interim' tag was removed ion the wake of the Tigers' 5-2 finish under Orgeron who took over when Les Miles was fired on September 25 after a 2-2 start. Polian's downfall seemed to be the lack of success in the conference as the Wolf Pack were just 14-18 in the MWC. This changes how coaches coach. He replaces Jeff Brohm who took the same position at Purdue (December 5). Georgia Southern finished 2-10 with Lunsford going 2-4. He also "played a role in overseeing special teams". Klieman replaced Craig Bohl at NDSU when Bohl left to become head coach at Wyoming. The Alabama offensive coordinator and former head coach of the Oakland Raiders, Tennessee Vols and USC Trojans will be tasked with revitalizing a Florida Atlantic football program which has gone 9-27 over the last 3 years. Before leaving for Colorado State, Bobo had served as QB coach and later as OC on the Georgia staff from 2001-2014. He also has 2 MAC titles and 2 Big East titles. More disastrous was an 8-12 record vs. FBS teams and a 6-11 record vs. Power 5 Conference teams. Matt Luke's season-long audition at Ole Miss paid off as the school removed the interim tag on November 26, making him the next official head coach of the Rebels. On Wednesday, December 23, Louisiana-Monroe announced Terry Bowden as its replacement for Matt Viator. New Mexico was 2-10 overall and 0-8 in the conference in 2019. Join our linker program. 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