23 Division 1-A College Football Teams Will Have New Head Coaches in 2011
Here is a complete listing of college football’s NCAA FBS ( D-1A) teams that will have new head coaches heading into the 2011 season—23 out of the 120 FBS schools have new faces at the helm. The MAC leads all conferences in the number of new head coaches with 5.
Team Moves
Nebraska heads to the Big Ten; Colorado and Utah to the PAC 12 (formerly the PAC 10); Boise State to Mountain West and BYU joins Army, Navy and Notre Dame as the only independent schools.
The list is broken down by conference and the name of each new head coach along with the name of the coach he replaces. In addition, the list reflects the realignment of teams into new respective conferences for the 2011 college football season (to see complete listing of the 11 conferences along with each team’s contact information click NCAA FBS (D-1A) Football Contacts.)
Maryland—Randy Edsall replaces Ralph Friedgen.
Miami—Al Golden replaces Randy Shannon.
Big 12
No Head Coach changes.
Big East
Connecticut—Paul Pasqualoni replaces Randy Edsall.
Pittsburgh—Todd Graham replaces Dave Wannstedt.
Big Ten
Michigan—Brady Hoke replaces Rich Rodriguez.
Indiana—Kevin Wilson Replaces Bill Lynch.
Minnesota—Jerry Kill replaces Tem Brewster.
New Team—Nebraska
Conference USA
Marshall—Doc Holliday replaces Randy Burnside.
Tulsa—Bill Blankenship replaces Todd Graham.
Independents
No Head Coach changes.
New Team—BYU
MAC
Ball State—Pete Lembo replaces Stan Parish.
Kent State—Darrell Hazell replaces Doug Martin.
Miami (Ohio)—Don Treadwell replaces Mike Haywood.
Northern Illinois—Dave Doeren replaces Jerry Kill.
Temple— Steve Addazio replaces Al Golden.
Mountain West
San Diego State—Rocky Long replaces Brady Hoke.
New Team—Boise State.
PAC 12 (formerly PAC 10)
Stanford—David Shaw replaces Jim Harbaugh.
Colorado—Jon Embree replaces Dan Hawkins.
New Teams—Colorado and Utah.
SEC
Florida—Will Muschamp replaces Urban Meyer.
Vanderbilt— James Franklin replaces Robbie Caldwell.
Sunbelt
Arkansas State—Hugh freeze replaces Steve Roberts.
North Texas—Dan McCarney replaces Mike Canales.
Louisiana-Lafayette—Mark Hudspeth replaces Rickey Bustle.
WAC
New Mexico State—Dewayne Walker replaces Mike Locksley.
