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State of the Program: FIU Golden Panthers
Head Coach: Willie Simmons is entering his first season as the head coach of FIU. He’s been a popular name in the carousel for a few seasons for a reason, he wins. Simmons was previously the head coach at Prairie View and Florida A&M. He went 45-13 at Florida A&M which includes a HBCU National…
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State of the Program: Delaware Blue Hens
Head Coach: Ryan Carty is entering his 4th season as the head coach of the Blue Hens with a 26-11 record. He led Delaware to the FCS playoffs in his first two seasons before not being eligible during the transition last season. Now he takes on his next big challenge, leading the Blue Hens to…
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State of the Program: West Virginia Mountaineers
Head Coach: Rich Rodriguez is entering his first season BACK at West Virginia. His first tenure featured some of the prime days of West Virginia football, and he has a 60-26 record with the program. He left the program for Michigan where his coaching style didn’t mesh with the players Michigan recruits, he went on…
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State of the Program: Utah Utes
Head Coach: Kyle Whittingham is entering his 21st season as the head coach of the Utes with a 167-86 record. He is the all-time winningest coach in program history and has led the Utes to 3 conference championships, a Sugar Bowl win, a Fiesta Bowl wins, 2 Rose Bowl appearances and 3 more conference championship…
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State of the Program: UCF Knights
Head Coach: Scott Frost is entering his first year in this stint at UCF, but he had his first head coaching job here too. UCF was coming off an 0-12 season when Frost took over, he immediately led UCF to a bowl in his first year and then rose the program to power the next…
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State of the Program: Texas Tech Red Raiders
Head Coach: Joey McGuire is entering his 4th season with the Red Raiders with a 23-16 record. He’s opened with a pretty steady start to his tenure, having a winning record each season so far. He’s built a buzz off the field that has made everyone wonder, when is the massive breakout year coming? Program…
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State of the Program: TCU Horned Frogs
Head Coach: Sonny Dykes is entering his 4th season as the head coach of the Horned Frogs with a 27-13 record. He got off to the wildest start with his program, an incredible 13-2 season that ended with an appearance in the National Championship, and then they plummeted to 5-7 the next year when basically…
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State of the Program: Oklahoma State Cowboys
Head Coach: Mike Gundy is entering his 21st season with the Cowboys with a 169-88 record. Gundy is one of the longest tenured head coaches in the country and has brought a lot of success to Oklahoma State include a Big 12 championship, 3 other Big 12 championship game appearances and 2 Fiesta Bowl wins.…
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State of the Program: Kansas State Wildcats
Head Coach: Chris Klieman is entering his 7th season as the head coach of the Wildcats with a 48-28 record. He’s won 1 Big 12 championship with Kansas State and 3 bowl games. Before he took this job he led North Dakota State to 4 National Championships in 5 years. Klieman is one of the…
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State of the Program: Kansas Jayhawks
Head Coach: Lance Leipold is entering his 5th season as the head coach of the Jayhawks with a 22-28 record. This record doesn’t stick out a whole lot but to put it into context Mark Mangino was gone after the 2009 season and from that point until Leipold was hired in 2021, the Jayhawks best…
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