2022-23 college football coaching carousel

If the Big 10 wasn't adding USC and UCLA and had just stayed with current West-East setup, I think Kiffin could run that division with the way things are going. You'd guarantee a 50-50 shot at the playoff / Major Bowl every season

 

You missed Bobby Ross’ move from Maryland to Georgia Tech.

 

Close but not quite. Ross actually resigned to become the QBs coach of the Buffalo Bills. While he may never have reported to work in western New York, the job proved to be an excellent parking spot because it allowed him to become a Georgia Tech candidate. Back then, there was an unofficial agreement -- enforced by the commissioner -- to preclude poaching.

 

I'm surprised it hasn't happened at all. Coaches playing musical chairs in the SEC is nothing new.

 

So of course this means he's gone tomorrow, right?

 

50-50.

 

Doug Dickey left Tennessee after the 1969 season for Florida after Tennessee lost the Gator Bowl to . . . Florida.

WTF were teams doing playing bowl games against conference members? Tennessee also played LSU in the Astro Bluebonnet Bowl a few years later.

And why did conference members play some other ones so rarely? Before that Gator Bowl, Tennessee hadn't played Florida in 14 years. Tennessee and Georgia --- a border state! --- did not play from 1938-67. UT played 7 conference games in 1964 and only 5 in 1965.

 

Fittingly enough, the SEC spent many years as more of a scheduling confederacy than a traditional league. Bama played Mississippi State every year but not Ole Miss. Georgia Tech was a regular fixture but rarely Georgia. I think it was the 80s before teams played more than six league games a year.

 

I'll go one better. NCSU and Duke - two schools less than 30 miles apart who have been in the same conference for decades - have faced each other twice since 2009, including a seven-year gap between 2013 and 2020 which they were not scheduled to play one another.

NC State University Athletics Football History vs Duke University

UNC and Wake Forest have played each other so seldom that they scheduled one another in a game that did not count in the ACC standings last season.

 

I’m pulling for the SEC to grab four more teams, then start a division called “The Original 10.”

 

The "Cheaters" and "The Ones Who Haven't Been Here Long Enough to Cheat." If only Vanderbilt would cooperate ...

 

Yes, Texas, OU, A&M, etc. are a rock-solid foundation for a purity division.