The coaching carousel started early this season and added a new opening Sunday, but there haven't been many true surprises.
Entering the fall, four Power 5 jobs were highlighted, circled and underlined as likely to open: Arizona State, Auburn, Georgia Tech and Nebraska. All four are now vacant. The Group of 5 had several tenuous coaching situations, too, including South Florida's Jeff Scott, who had received a small contract extension in January despite a 3-18 record at the school.
USF certainly wanted Scott to turn things around. He still had plenty of supporters, including athletic director Michael Kelly. But the wins simply never came. After Saturday's 54-28 road loss to Temple, which had dropped four straight and had not scored more than 20 points in a league game, USF fired Scott. He went 1-8 this season and finished 4-26 at the school (1-18 in AAC games).
Below we'll take a quick look at the types of candidates South Florida could consider, along with all the latest coaching buzz coming out of Week 10.
We'll also do a mini-reset of some of the coaching searches that are now almost two months old at Nebraska, Arizona State, Georgia Tech, Colorado and Wisconsin. And it has only been a week, but we'll update the situation at Auburn. Where do things stand and which candidates are improving their odds for those jobs? Plus our ranking of the open Power 5 jobs.
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