Tag: AAC Football
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State of the Program: Florida Atlantic Owls
Head Coach: Zach Kittley is entering his first season as the head coach of the Owls. Kittley is well known for his ability to craft high flying offenses. The most notable instance was his tenure as the OC at Western Kentucky where they imported Kittley, Bailey Zappe, and other members of a successful offense at…
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State of the Program: Charlotte 49ers
Head Coach: Tim Albin is entering his 1st year as the head coach of the 49ers. He comes over after spending the last 20 years as Ohio. Most of that was as Frank Solich’s right hand man, but Albin took over after Solich retired and led the Bobcats to a 33-19 record, including 2 bowl…
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State of the Program: Army Black Knights
Head Coach: Jeff Monken is entering his 12th season as the head coach of the Black Knights with an 82-57 record. He’s easily one of the top coaches in the country. Before Monken got here Army was lost at sea, which has multiple meanings both because of their losing in general and because of their…
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2024 College Football Bowl Previews (Dec 24th)
The Hawaii Bowl: South Florida Bulls (6-6) vs San Jose State Spartans (7-5) Key Facts: Bowl games haven’t been particularly kind to San Jose State recently, the Spartans haven’t won one since 2015. Ken Niumatalolo to the rescue! He’s won 5 of his last 6 bowl appearances although they were at Navy with the triple…
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2024 College Football Bowl Previews (Dec 23rd)
Myrtle Beach Bowl: Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (6-6) vs UTSA Roadrunners (6-6) Key Facts: UTSA was a wild home/road split teams this year. The Roadrunners went 6-0 at home and 0-6 on the road. This is a true home game for the Chanticleers. Coastal Carolina might be missing their starting and backup QBs because they are…
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2024 College Football Bowl Previews (Dec 17th)
Scooter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl: Memphis Tigers (10-2) vs West Virginia Mountaineers (6-6) Key Facts: Ryan Silverfield has quietly been pretty good in bowl games he is 3-1 in them with his only loss being as the interim coach against Penn State in the 2019 Cotton Bowl, otherwise he has won 3 in a row. West…
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College Football Roundup Week 1
Welcome! This is a new weekly article where I’ll break down some interesting results from each conference and break down what it means, without attempting to make any crazy “hot takes” (we’ll see how that goes.) I opened this year differently, most of the time I watch from home to begin the season or if…
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State of the Program: Florida Atlantic Owls
Head Coach: Tom Herman is entering his 2nd season as the head coach of the Owls with a 4-8 record. It was a building season along with them joining a new conference. Herman had lots of success in his career, he led Ohio State to a national title in 2014 as their Offensive coordinator. Herman…
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State of the Program: UAB Blazers
Head Coach: Trent Dilfer is entering his 2nd season as the head coach of the Blazers with a 4-8 record. He’s a former Super Bowl winning QB for the Baltimore Ravens, overall NFL Journeyman and spent a long time as an NFL media member. This job is the first thing he’s done related to college…
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State of the Program: Rice Owls
Head Coach: Mike Bloomgren is entering his 7th year as the head coach of the Rice Owls with a 22-46 record. It’s been a bit of a long build for Bloomgren and he’s yet to have a winning record but they’ve been steadily improving since 2020. Last year was his best work yet they improved…
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