This year’s coaching carousel hasn’t seen the movement of last year with Lincoln Riley leaving Oklahoma or Brian Kelly jumping from Notre Dame to LSU, but it has been exciting nonetheless.
The Wisconsin Badgers and Nebraska Cornhuskers jumped into the mix early on in the season with the dismissals of Paul Chryst and Scott Frost. The Auburn Tigers joined the carousel for the third time in four years after firing Brian Harsin just 21 games into his tenure on the Plains.
The Cincinnati Bearcats, who join the Big 12 in 2023, have to replace their head coach who returned to the Big Ten. Arizona State and Georgia Tech hired first-time head coaches and Colorado made the biggest splash of the offseason with Coach Prime. The Louisville Cardinals have yet to make a hire after Scott Satterfield jumped ship to Cincinnati, the team they are playing in their bowl matchup.
With seven Power Five jobs being filled, I graded each hire so far.