College football coaching carousel tracker: Who’s fired, who’s hired for 2023? [UPDATED]

Keep yourself up to date with all the changes happening on the college football coaching carousel.

With the 2022 college football regular season in the books, it means the coaching carousel is in full tilt.

It was an especially strange season in the coaching department, as several marquee Power Five jobs opened up well before Halloween. Though most opportunities that opened up were not at places where it is all that easy to contend for national championships, national titles have been won before at places like Auburn, Colorado and Georgia Tech. We are only getting started, people…

Here is what the coaching carousel has left us with, now that the 2022 regular season is history.

College football coaching carousel: Who has been fired? Who has been hired?

Here are all the jobs that became available across college football this year in chronological order.

College football coaching carousel: Preseason and in-season changes (9)

UAB Blazers: Bill Clark -> Trent Dilfer

Longtime UAB Blazers head coach Bill Clark retired right before the start of fall camp on Aug. 1. News of him stepping down due to health reasons came several weeks prior on June 24. Clark went 49-26 overall and 32-12 in Conference USA. He led the Blazers over six seasons from 2014 to 2021. Keep in mind that the UAB football program had been briefly and unjustifiably shut down.

Offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Bryant Vincent served as the interim at UAB throughout  the 2022 college football season. Vincent had been on the UAB staff previously back in 2014 before returning to South Alabama to be the Jaguars’ offensive coordinator in Mobile from 2015 to 2017. He returned to Birmingham in 2018. Vincent went 6-6 overall and 4-4 in conference play.

In a shocking turn of events, UAB hired former Super Bowl champion quarterback and first-round pick Trent Dilfer. While Dilfer is best known today for running Elite 11, as well as being the head football coach at Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, he is about to become a Group of Five head coach. He went 38-8 over four seasons at Lipscomb Academy while at the helm of the Mustangs.

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Nebraska Cornhuskers: Scott Frost -> Matt Rhule

Despite being the perfect candidate for the gig, Scott Frost fizzled out at his alma mater in Lincoln a third of the way through his fifth year on the job. Frost was fired on Sept. 11 after a 1-2 (0-1) start at Nebraska. He finished his stint running the Cornhuskers into the ground at 16-31 overall and 10-26 in Big Ten play. He won three more games over two seasons while coaching at UCF…

Former Cornhuskers quarterback Mickey Joseph took over in the interim for Frost. He only came back to his alma mater in 2022 to be the associate head coach/wide receivers coach/passing game coordinator. Joseph went a respectable 3-6 overall and 3-5 in Big Ten play serving as the interim head coach at his alma mater. He won his final game as the interim over Iowa at Kinnick.

While Joseph had an outside shot at getting the job full-time, Nebraska athletic director Trev Alberts went with former Carolina Panthers head coach Matt Rhule. He had been let go in Charlotte after a rough three-year run in the NFL. Rhule has a great track record of success in college from his time at Baylor and Temple. Big Red is in great hands with an elite program builder.

Arizona State Sun Devils: Herm Edwards -> Kenny Dillingham

Clearly, Arizona State did not play to win the game, as former Sun Devils head coach Herm Edwards was fired after a bad home loss to Eastern Michigan on Sept. 18. Edwards’ run in Tempe was as underwhelming as it was marred by scandal. The Sun Devils shamelessly brought recruits on campus for visits during peak COVID. He went 26-20 (17-14) in parts of five seasons.

Arizona State running backs coach Shaun Aguano took over in the interim for the duration of Pac-12 play. After a 1-2 start in the non-conference under Edwards, Arizona State finished the 2022 college season with a disastrous 3-9 (2-7) mark, meaning Aguano went 2-7 overall and 2-7 in conference play leading the Sun Devils. Sparky put up more fight in the Territorial Cup than them…

After Oregon lost on the road to Oregon State in Week 13, Arizona State hired former Ducks offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham to be the head coach of his alma mater’s program. The Scottsdale native played his high school ball at Chaparral before serving on Todd Graham’s 2014 to 20515 Arizona State staff as an offensive assistant for Mike Norvell. Dillingham is 32 years old.