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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. He was hired at South Carolina in 2005 where he undeniably elevated the program's level of competitiveness, but was unable to deliver a conference title and the Gamecocks won only 1 division title during his 10 full seasons in Columbia. Leach became known as "The Pirate" and once said that "Pirates function as a team. The 43-year old protege has been an Oklahoma since 2018 and this season served as assistant head coach for offense, tight ends and H-Backs, according to Soonerports.com. He was 43-31 overall with the Hokies and 28-20 in the ACC. Note: This article will be updated throughout the season and This is his sixth year as defensive coordinator. He had four seasons of 4-4 finishes and four seasons below .500. Cristobal's promotion by Oregon was somewhat surprising as his only previous head coaching experience was at FIU from 2007-2012 where he was 27-47 over-all, 20-26 in the Sun Belt, and 1-1 in bowl games. More disastrous was an 8-12 record vs. FBS teams and a 6-11 record vs. Power 5 Conference teams. Linguist, Buffalo's new head coach was just hired in January as Michigan's new defensive coordinator. Kent State went 5-7 in 2022. 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. The move was made a day after the Scarlet Knights were skunked 52-0 by Michigan. The president ultimately resigned. He was 158-48 at Texas. Defensive coordinator Zach Arnett was immediately named interim head coach for bowl season. UNLV on Wednesday, December 7 introduced new head football coach Barry Odom. Taggart inherited a South Florida program in complete disarray in 2013 and, after 2 rough seasons, guided the Bulls to an 18-7 mark over the last 2 years. Tuberville was expected to be fired 3 days later when his buyout contractually would've fallen from $2.4 million to $1.5 million. He was hired by Bobby Petrino as the Cardinal's QB coach the next season and rose to AHC and OC by 2008 under Steve Kragthorpe. Todd Orlando, who had been named interim coach for the bowl game, will re-assume his role of defensive coordinator. 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. Offensive coordinator Mike Sanford, Jr. took over as interim head coach and went 1-6. 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. Snyder briefly retired from 2006-2008 but was called back into service after the 'Cats went 17-20 in those three seasons under Ron Prince. DeBord was among those interviewed for the interim position. With the Sun Devils, he was 46-32 overall, 31-23 in the PAC-12, and 2-3 in bowl games. In response, Ole Miss self-imposed a 2017 bowl ban and other restrictions. On January 6, Ball State hired former student and player Mike Neu to replace Lembo. Three years and 5 days after being fired from Texas, Charlie Strong was given the boot from USF on December 1. In his departure, he leaves a new stadium, vastly upgraded facilities, and a perennial winning program. Lindsey had accepted the offensive coordinator at Kansas back in December. Healy was just the second head coach in the short history of the program. USC on November 30 made the announcement that most observers thought it should - Clay Helton is the head coach. Stoops was named interim head coach for the bowl season. After just two seasons as the head coach at James Madison, Everett Withers is leaving the Dukes to take the same position at Texas State. but had the interim tag removed on December 15 and became the official head coach. Tony Levine was Houston's head coach in the Ticket City Bowl win over Penn State, and Jeff Banks served as interim head coach for the Aggies' in a 55-52 loss to Wake Forest in the Belk Bowl. His teams were 19-21 in the SEC and finished 5th or worse in the SEC western division in 3 of his 5 seasons. The Auburn graduate is in his fourth season as an assistant coach where he has served as the Tigers' running backs coach. The Vols had fired Jeremy Pruitt on January 18 "with cause", along with numerous assistants, for alleged NCAA violations. Featured. Helton was originally named interim head coach in 2015 after Steve Sarkisian was let go five games in to the season and was later elevated to head coach. Silverfield's first game as head coach was a loss to Penn State in the Cotton Bowl. As a player, he led the Broncos in tackles every year from 20022004. Berry was 28-43 at UL-M in nearly 6 full seasons with a high water mark of 8-5 in 2012 which resulted in the program's first FBS bowl invitation (a 45-14 loss to Ohio in the Independence Bowl). Offensive coordinator Mike DeBord had been serving as 'acting' head coach ever since Miles was put on administrative leave two days prior. In three seasons at FAU, Kiffin was 26-13 overall and 18-6 in CUSA with a 2017 title already under his belt before whipping UAB 49-6 for the 2019 crown. 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. Regardless, the administration had stood by Graham and the coach, in a statement, said he was not forced out but was stepping aside for the good of the program and his own health. Defensive backs coach Cory Hall was given the interim head coaching tag and went 0-6. The opening at Marshall was created when the school declined to renew the contract of Doc Holliday (announced on Monday, January 4). Pruitt, a former Alabama assistant, was hired by Tennessee on December 7, 2017. Clark's team was 9-4 last year and his career record at UAB is 49-26. Davie was 35-64 overall with the Lobos, including a 17-47 mark in the conference over his 8 seasons. UTEP on December 6 announced the hiring of Dana Dimel as head coach. As a player at Auburn, Williams helped lead Auburn to an undefeated season in 2004 while earning All-America honors that year. In 2017, Hernandez hung himself in prison after receiving a life sentence for murder. Former Hawaii quarterback and assistant coach, Nick Rolovich, was announced November 27 as the new head coach of Hawaii in 2016. Far fewer issues of that ilk have been reported at Ohio State where the biggest have been Coach Smith and former star running back Carlos Hyde who was suspended for 3 games for the alleged assault of a woman at bar for which the charge was later dropped. These days, those were numbers would seem almost average, but it was a different era in college football. His coaching career includes stints with the New Jersey Red Dogs of the Arena League, before moving on to multiple NFL stops. 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. The Ole Miss grad spent the last 4 seasons as the head coach at Alcorn State where his teams collected a 32-17 record and consecutive SWAC titles the last two seasons. 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. Rhule took over a Baylor program that went 1-11 in 2017 and led the Bears to a 6-win improvement in 2018. As a player in 2000, Hammock had a stellar season of 1,083 yards rushing and 16 touchdowns, and he followed that up with a 1,096-yard season in 2001. However, the SGGate.com article alleged its investigation concluded that a "not insignificant contingent of players" had no desire to play another game for Graham. This was Petrino's second stint at Louisville as he also served as head coach from 2003-2006, amassing a 41-9 record. Texas Tech finished 5-7 in 2018 after beginning the year at 5-2. 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. DeBoer was the offensive coordinator of the Bulldogs from 2017-2018 under Tedford, but spent 2019 as the OC at Indiana. Elliott spent 11 seasons at Clemson which won national titles in 2016 and 2018 and six straight ACC titles from 2015-2020. On Saturday (December 12), Arkansas State named former Tennessee head coach Butch Jones as the replacement for Blake Anderson who resigned to take the same position at Utah State. A large number of players on the 2021 roster - 19 in all - have entered the transfer portal since November. Lee Marks was named interim head coach for the bowl season and he led the team to a 31-24 New Mexico Bowl win over UTEP. After firing Taggart on November 3, Florida State installed defensive line coach Odell Haggins as interim head coach. Polian's downfall seemed to be the lack of success in the conference as the Wolf Pack were just 14-18 in the MWC. 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 program was ruled ineligible for bowl consideration by the NCAA due to self-reported academic violations that occurred in 2015 and 2016. The former Texas A&M assistant under R.C. Since then, the Tigers have won a single division title (2017) while Alabama has dominated the division and the conference. On November 15, it was revealed that FIU (1-9) and Butch Davis would part ways at the end of the season. Bloomgren had been on the Cardinal staff since 2011 and, before that, was an NFL assistant with the New York Jets from 2008-2010. He was the consensus national coach of the year in 2016 after guiding Colorado to a 10-4 finish and the Pac-12 South Division Title. Turner's firing came in the aftermath of a 53-14 loss to Central Florida that dropped the Golden Panthers' record to 0-4. Cristobal is the third head coach of Oregon in 3 years. The Tifton, Georgia native spent 1 year as the safeties coach at Georgia Southern in 2006. 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. 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. After just two games of the 2021 season, Randy Edsall resigned on September 6 as the head coach of UConn and his DC, Lou Spanos, was appointed interim head coach. On March 1, Southern Miss announced Jay Hopson as Monken's successor. News of Gary Andersen returning to Utah State originally broke on Sunday, December 9 and he was officially introduced as the 'new' head coach two days later. 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). Long went out in style with a 10-3 season that culminated in a 48-11 whipping of Central Michigan in the New Mexico Bowl. The high water mark came in 2013 when the Knights went 12-1 and defeated Baylor in the Fiesta Bowl. He was 10-3 with FAU this year, including a 7-1 conference mark in the regular season. He is the winningest coach in school history with a record of 109-83, but just 11-23 over the last 3 seasons. Interim head coaching duties were handled by offensive coordinator Mike Canales for the remainder of the season. He was 40-8 with the Wildcats and 9-13 with the Mocs. At the age of 34, he was hired away from Austin Peay to replace the fired Brad Lambert after the 2018 season. He replaces Clay Helton (fired after a 1-1 start) and Donte Williams who went 3-6 in the interim role. The 'Huskers are now on their sixth coach since making that move and none have equaled his winning percentage at Nebraska of .753. Todd Fitch, the coordinator of the nation's 109th-ranked offense, takes the interim reins. 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. Taylor has also had stints with the Carolina Panthers, New York Jets and Stanford after starting his coaching career as a grad assistant at Alabama where was a rarely-used receiver as a player from 2000-2003. Athletic Director Todd Stansbury was also let go and Frank Neville was named interim AD. Sitake spent the 2015 season as the defensive coordinator at Oregon State, following 10 seasons as an assistant with Utah. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? 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. 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. Pinkel saw the transition from the Big 12 to the SEC in 2012 and won consecutive SEC East titles in 2013 and 2014. The object was to get a treasure. Gary Patterson was asked to finish out the season and then accept being reassigned, but the man who has coached the Horned Frogs for 20 seasons + 9 games said, "No', and parted immediately. The former Auburn head coach inked a deal reportedly worth $2.3 million per year over 5 years, according to ESPN's Andrea Adelson. Fittingly, Kansas State plays at Bill Snyder Family Stadium after the field venue was named in his honor at the end of his 2005 season when it was thought he was heading into permanent retirement. Chris Woods was the interim coach for the season finale at home vs. Arkansas State which the Bobcats also lost. In response, Ole Miss self-imposed a 2017 bowl ban and other restrictions. He was fired by Maryland halfway through the 2015 season. The school fired Steve Campbell on December 6, the day after a 29-0 loss to Troy dropped the Jaguars to 4-7. His resume of over 25 years of experience incudes mostly jobs in California at both the collegiate and high school levels in the San Francisco Bay area. He has mostly served as a special teams and defensive backs coach and is almost certain to join Fickell at Wisconsin after the bowl game. 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. Taggart previously held the HC job at Western Kentucky from 2009-2012, USF from 2013 to 2016, Oregon in 2017 and Florida State from 2018 through the first 9 nine games of 2019. 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. Freeze was 39-25 in five seasons, but 5-7 in 2016. Montgomery was a star for Duke at wide receiver in the late 1990's. 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. Poggi has very little college coaching experience, but yet has been given much credit in Michigan's success since his arrival last season. Bill Clark has been more than the football coach at UAB. He was also the running game coordinator. Fuente's time in Blacksburg started out hot, going 10-4 in 2016, capturing the Coastal division title and winning the Belk Bowl. 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. In all, Rutgers was 27-24 overall during his tenure and 12-19 in conference games. The loss kept FAU from becoming bowl eligible at 5-7. 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. Thus, Rossomando wound up at Vandy. He was lured away by Maryland after leading UConn to the Fiesta Bowl in 2010, but couldn't duplicate the success he had with the Huskies. 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