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State of the Program: Tulane Green Wave
Head Coach: Jon Sumrall is entering his 2nd season as the head coach of the Green Wave with a 9-5 record. They reached the AAC championship game, and even found themselves in the College Football Playoff hunt until Thanksgiving. It was a good first season, but 2024 was the first time Sumrall didn’t win a…
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State of the Program: Temple Owls
Head Coach: KC Keeler is entering his 1st season as the head coach of the Owls. He was previously the head coach of Sam Houston going 97-39 with the program, leading them to a FCS championship and into FBS capped off by a 9-3 record last year. Keeler also has experience in the area when…
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State of the Program: South Florida Bulls
Head Coach: Alex Golesh is entering his 3rd season as the head coach of the Bulls with a 14-12 record. He’s won bowl games in both of his seasons. His first season was particularly impressive considering the struggles the Bulls had before he got here but he enters year 3 looking for more. Program Outlook:…
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State of the Program: Rice Owls
Head Coach: Scott Abell is entering his first season as the head coach of the Owls. He was previously the head coach of Davidson where he went 47-28, those who are not familiar with FCS football may not even realize the school known for Steph Curry had a football program. Davidson plays in the non-scholarship…
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State of the Program: Navy Midshipmen
Head Coach: Brian Newberry is entering his 3rd year as the head coach of the Midshipmen with a 15-10 record. There were some growing pains year 1 but things took off last season with a 10-3 record. It’s a tough task to replace someone who meant so much to the program like Ken Niumatalolo, but…
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State of the Program: Memphis Tigers
Head Coach: Ryan Silverfield is entering 6th year as the head coach of the Tigers with a 42-21 record. His first game as the head coach with the program was in the 2019 Cotton Bowl against Penn State, pretty challenging! That Cotton Bowl loss is his only bowl loss with Memphis and overall Silverfield has…
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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: East Carolina Pirates
Head Coach: Blake Harrell is entering his first full season as the head coach of the Pirates. He took over as the program’s interim coach in the middle of last season and rallied the Pirates to a 5-1 record to close out the season. This included a massive in-state bowl win over the despised NC…
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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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