There’s always a lot of change ahead of an approaching college football season and 2022 is no different.
Here’s an overview of what’s new ahead of this season as Week 1 quickly approaches.
Lincoln Riley and Brian Kelly aren’t the only coaches at new schools
Nearly 30 schools hired a new coach ahead of the 2022 season and 12 of those schools are in a Power Five conference. By now, you know the biggest coaching changes. Former Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley is at USC and former Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly is at LSU while their old employers hired defensive coordinators to replace them.
Former Oregon coach Mario Cristobal is now at Miami and the Ducks hired Georgia defensive coordinator Dan Lanning to take his place. The first game of Lanning’s Oregon career will be against Georgia in Week 1. Florida, meanwhile, hired Louisiana coach Billy Napier to take over for Dan Mullen. Napier is a former assistant to Nick Saban at Alabama.
Outside of the Power Five, a number of former Power Five head coaches took coaching jobs at smaller schools. Former Mississippi State coach Joe Moorhead is the new coach at Akron. Former Colorado coach Mike MacIntyre succeeds Butch Davis at Florida Atlantic. Former USC coach Clay Helton is at Georgia Southern. Ex-UCLA coach Jim Mora is at UConn. And former Minnesota coach Jerry Kill is the new coach at New Mexico State. All five of those coaches are taking over programs in various stages of a rebuild.
Numerous transfers among 2022 Heisman favorites
You don’t have to look much further than the 2022 Heisman odds to see how normal frequent player transfers have become in college football. Five of the top 12 favorites at BetMGM are at their second schools and all five of those players are quarterbacks. USC QB Caleb Williams is the No. 3 favorite behind Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud and Alabama’s Bryce Young. Texas QB Quinn Ewers is the No. 5 favorite, Oklahoma’s Dillon Gabriel is the No. 9 favorite and former USC QBs Kedon Slovis (Pitt) and Jaxson Dart (Ole Miss) round out the top 12.
Here’s a list of all the important quarterback transfers in college football and all of the non-QB transfers you need to know ahead of the season.
A swan song for the ACC’s divisions
Enjoy the final seasons of the Atlantic and Coastal divisions in the ACC. The conference announced earlier in 2022…