We're back with our annual list tracking of all the head coaching changes across the NFL and college football.
The college carousel once again got off to a quick start, starting with a few small college coaches that had spent decades with their respective programs announcing that this would be their final season on the sidelines.
Then, in major college football, Nebraska parted ways with Scott Frost on September 11th, following a loss to Georgia Southern.
Consider this your one-stop shop for coaching changes at every level of football – NFL, NCAA and NAIA – throughout the fall and winter, so check back frequently. For your reference, here are the lists of changes for the 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-2017, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, and the 2021-22 seasons.
There have been two NFL head coaching changes.
The dismissal of Scott Frost in September marked the first in-season major college head coaching change of the 2022-23 coaching cycle.
So far, that have been 24 head coaching changes (including the retirement of Bill Clark at UAB before the start of the season). Last year the total number of head coaching changes was 29 Total number of changes over the past 11 seasons: 22 (2008), 23 (2009), 24 (2010), 28 (2011), 31 (2012), 20 (2013), 15 (2014), 29 (2015), 21 (2016), 21 (2017), 28 (2018), and 24 (2019) 17 (2020).
There have been 27 FCS head coaching changes so far this season.
There were 21 FCS coaching changes after last fall. After the 2020 season, there were six head coaching changes, 16 changes following 2019, 25 in 2018, 24 in 2017, and 15 in 2016.
There have been 25 Division II head coaching changes.
There were a whopping 35 Division II head coaching changes last year, which followed the 2020 season where the Division II level didn't play a full season due to COVID. 31 jobs opened after the 2019 season, and 21 after the 2018 season.
There have been 25 head coaching changes at the Division III level, and two have been filled.
There were 25 changes last season and just five Division III after the COVID-impacted 2020 season. In 2019, a total of 22 programs saw head coaching changes.
There have been ten coaching changes at the NAIA level.
There were 12 NAIA head coaching changes last year, seven in 2019-20 and 15 after the 2018-19 season.
(i) denotes that the coach has, or will lead the team as an interim head coach
(f) denotes coach will lead team for one final season
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