Trends News College Football Coaching Carousel What Recent Hiring Trends Could Tell Us About New Coaches In 2024 Season

Meet the candidates -- 88 of them: The only list you need for college football's wildest coaching carousel

Nearly 40 FBS jobs are expected to open this cycle. From Lane Kiffin to rising FCS names, here's an exhaustive list of coaches shaping the most chaotic hiring season in college football history. Read More

Part Two: College Football Coaches Who Could Get Poached This Season

Explore the potential poaching of Lane Kiffin and others as coaching rumors swirl in 2025's unprecedented coaching carousel. Read More

College football coaching carousel already impacting QB recruiting: ‘We were locked in’

Troy Huhn, who had been committed to Penn State since June, is one of two blue-chip QBs in the Class of 2026 on the open market. Read More

Penn State's coaching search sits at the center of college football's most chaotic hiring cycle in decades, and the next move could reshape the sport

Penn State didn’t just fire a head coach midseason; it lit the fuse for what could become the most unpredictable coaching carousel in college football history. With nearly 40 FBS jobs projected to ... Read More

College football coaching carousel: What makes a good job anymore?

In an era with an expanded CFP, revenue sharing and NIL payments, many of the old stereotypes no longer apply. It's a brave, new world in college football, and the grass may not be greener on the ... Read More

College football coaching carousel: Why do so many big-money hires flame out?

With so many voices in the room, hiring the right coach has proven difficult for schools. But as the college game becomes more and more like the NFL, the misses are becoming glaring and harder to ... Read More

College football coaching carousel tracker: Grades, analysis on coach changes, 2025-26 firings and hirings

A record-breaking spin on the coaching carousel is already underway across college football. We're up to nine openings in the power conferences midway through the 2025 season -- and that doesn't count ... Read More

College football program names head coach amid historic coaching carousel

One college football program is bowing out of the coaching carousel. Find out the latest team to announce their new head coach. Read More

P.J. Fleck expected to be 'major factor' in chaotic college football coaching carousel

The college football coaching carousel has gotten started early this season with notable head coach vacancies at top programs such as Florida, Penn State, and Arkansas already. With a 5-2 start to the ... Read More

How Jon Sumrall is balancing Tulane's season and the coaching carousel

ESPN spent time with Sumrall and the Tulane program as it tried to navigate the end of the season, an unprecedented coaching carousel and prepare for an Oct. 30 game at UTSA. Things didn't go well ... Read More

Historic Coaching Carousel? Hirings and Firings in College Football's Power Four

College football could be on the verge of one of the busiest coaching carousels in recent history. Six Power Four coaches were fired in the first two months of the season, and more are sure to follow ... Read More

Coaching carousel: Tracking the hirings and firings in the Power Four

College football could be on the verge of one of the busiest coaching carousels in recent history. Eight Power Four coaches have been fired this season, and more are sure to follow in an era that ... Read More