2012 HEAD COACHES
 
HEAD COACHING CHANGES FOR 2012
SCHOOL OLD COACH YRS NEW COACH (former position)
Akron Rob Ianello 2 Terry Bowden (North Alabama Head Coach)
Arizona Mike Stoops 8 Rich Rodriguez (Michigan Head Coach)
Arizona State Dennis Erickson 5 Todd Graham (Pittsburgh Head Coach)
Arkansas State Hugh Freeze 1 Gus Malzahn (Auburn Off. Coor.)
Colorado State Steve Fairchild 4 Jim McElwain (Alabama Off. Coor.)
Florida Atlantic Howard Schnellenberger 11 Carl Pelini (Nebraska Def. Coor.)
Fresno State Pat Hill 15 Tim DeRuyter (Texas A&M Def. Coor.)
Hawai'i Greg McMackin 4 Norm Chow (Utah Off. Coor.)
Houston Kevin Sumlin 4 Tony Levine (Houston ST/WR Coach)
Illinois Ron Zook 7 Tim Beckman (Toledo Head Coach)
Kansas Turner Gill 2 Charlie Weis (Florida Off. Coor.)
Memphis Larry Porter 2 Justin Fuente (TCU co-Off. Coor.)
Mississippi Houston Nutt 4 Hugh Freeze (Arkansas State Head Coach)
New Mexico Mike Locksley 3 Bob Davie (Notre Dame Head Coach)
North Carolina Everett Withers 1 Larry Fedora (Southern Miss Head Coach)
Ohio State Luke Fickell 1 Urban Meyer (Florida Head Coach)
Penn State Joe Paterno 46 Bill O'Brien (NFL Patriots Off. Coor.)
Pittsburgh Todd Graham 1 Paul Chryst (Wisconsin Off. Coor.)
Rutgers Greg Schiano 11 Kyle Flood (Rutgers Off. Coor.)
Southern Miss Larry Fedora 4 Ellis Johnson (South Carolina Def. Coor.)
Texas A&M Mike Sherman 4 Kevin Sumlin (Houston Head Coach)
Toledo Tim Beckman 3 Matt Campbell (Toledo Off. Coor.)
Tulane Bob Toledo 5 Curtis Johnson (NFL Saints WR Coach)
UAB Neil Callaway 5 Garrick McGee (Arkansas Off. Coor.)
UCLA Rick Neuheisel 4 Jim Mora (NFL Seahawks Head Coach)
Washington State Paul Wulff 4 Mike Leach (Texas Tech Head Coach)
 

 

SCHOOL COACH # OF YEARS
Air Force Troy Calhoun 5
Akron Terry Bowden 1st year
Alabama Nick Saban 5
Arizona Rich Rodriguez 1st year
Arizona State Todd Graham 1st year
Arkansas Bobby Petrino 4
Arkansas State Gus Malzahn 1st year
Army Rich Ellerson 3
Auburn Gene Chizik 3
Ball State Pete Lembo 1
Baylor Art Briles 4
Boise State Chris Petersen 6
Boston College Frank Spaziani 3
Bowling Green Dave Clawson 3
Brigham Young Bronco Mendenhall 7
Buffalo Jeff Quinn 3
California Jeff Tedford 10
Central Michigan Dan Enos 2
Cincinnati Butch Jones 2
Clemson Dabo Swinney 3
Colorado Jon Embree 1
Colorado State Jim McElwain 1st year
Connecticut Paul Pasqualoni 1
Duke David Cutcliffe 4
East Carolina Ruffin McNeill 2
Eastern Michigan Ron English 3
Florida Will Muschamp 1
Florida Atlantic Carl Pelini 1st year
Florida International Mario Cristobal 5
Florida State Jimbo Fisher 2
Fresno State Tim DeRuyter 1st year
Georgia Mark Richt 11
Georgia Tech Paul Johnson 4
Hawaii Norm Chow 1st year
Houston Tony Levine 1st year
Idaho Robb Akey 5
Illinois Tim Beckman 1st year
Indiana Kevin Wilson 1
Iowa Kirk Ferentz 13
Iowa State Paul Rhodes 3
Kansas Charlie Weis 1st year
Kansas State Bill Snyder 20
Kent State Darrell Hazell 1
Kentucky Joker Phillips 2
Louisiana-Lafayette Mark Hudspeth 1
Louisiana-Monroe Todd Berry 2
Louisiana State Les Miles 7
Louisiana Tech Sonny Dykes 2
Louisville Charlie Strong 2
Marshall John "Doc" Holliday 2
Maryland Randy Edsall 1
Memphis Justin Fuente 1st year
Miami FL Al Golden 1
Miami OH Don Treadwell 1
Michigan Brady Hoke 1
Michigan State Mark Dantonio 5
Middle Tennessee Rick Stockstill 6
Minnesota Jerry Kill 1
Mississippi Hugh Freeze 1st year
Mississippi State Dan Mullen 3
Missouri Gary Pinkel 11
Navy Ken Niumatalolo 4
Nebraska Bo Pelini 4
Nevada Chris Ault 27
New Mexico Bob Davie 1st year
New Mexico State Dewayne Walker 3
North Carolina Larry Fedora 1st year
North Carolina State Tom O'Brien 5
North Texas Dan McCarney 1
Northern Illinois Dave Doeren 1
Northwestern Pat Fitzgerald 6
Notre Dame Brian Kelly 2
Ohio Frank Solich 7
Ohio State Urban Meyer 1st year
Oklahoma Bob Stoops 13
Oklahoma State Mike Gundy 7
Oregon Chip Kelly 3
Oregon State Mike Riley 11
Penn State Bill O'Brien 1st year
Pittsburgh Paul Chryst 1st year
Purdue Danny Hope 3
Rice David Bailiff 5
Rutgers Kyle Flood 1st year
San Diego State Rocky Long 1
San Jose State Mike MacIntyre 2
South Carolina Steve Spurrier 7
Southern California Lane Kiffin 2
South Florida Skip Holtz 2
SMU June Jones 4
Southern Miss Ellis Johnson 1st year
Stanford David Shaw 1
Syracuse Doug Marrone 3
Temple Steve Addazio 1
Tennessee Derek Dooley 2
Texas Mack Brown 14
Texas A&M Kevin Sumlin 1st year
TCU Gary Patterson 12
Texas Tech Tommy Tuberville 2
Toledo Matt Campbell 1st year
Troy Larry Blakeney 21
Tulane Curtis Johnson 1st year
Tulsa Bill Blankenship 1
UAB Garrick McGee 1st year
UCF George O'Leary 8
UCLA Jim Mora 1st year
UNLV Bobby Hauck 2
Utah Kyle Whittingham 7
Utah State Gary Andersen 3
UTEP Mike Price 8
Vanderbilt James Franklin 1
Virginia Mike London 2
Virginia Tech Frank Beamer 25
Wake Forest Jim Grobe 11
Washington Steve Sarkisian 3
Washington State Mike Leach 1st year
West Virginia Dana Holgorsen 1
Western Kentucky Willie Taggart 2
Western Michigan Bill Cubit 7
Wisconsin Bret Bielema 6
Wyoming Dave Christensen 3

 

 

   
 
 
 
 
 
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