The coaching carousel was relatively quiet after the 2024 season.
Nearly every school in the Big Ten and SEC retained their coaches for the 2025 college football season, while there are just six new coaches at power conference schools overall.
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There was, however, a fair amount of movement elsewhere in college football. Here’s your quick guide to every school with a new coach this season.
ACC
Bill Belichick, North Carolina: We’ll start with the most famous — and infamous — new coach in college football. The six-time Super Bowl winner was hired to replace Mack Brown as the Tar Heels’ head coach. Belichick has brought North Carolina the attention it sought after it hired him … but not in ways UNC could have imagined. Belichick has been a major offseason storyline thanks to his personal and professional relationship with 24-year-old Jordon Hudson. Belichick has said Hudson is not involved with the UNC football program and all eyes will be on the Tar Heels’ opener against TCU on Labor Day.
NFL great Bill Belichick isn’t the only coach with a new role on a college football sideline this season. (Dillon Marshall/Yahoo Sports)
Jake Dickert, Wake Forest: The former Washington State coach headed east to replace Dave Clawson after Clawson stepped down after 11 seasons with the Demon Deacons. Dickert led Washington State through two seasons of turmoil as the Pac-12 dissolved and other schools left the Cougars in the dust. Wazzu went 8-4 in 2024 as it scrambled to piece together a schedule following the conference’s demise.
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Frank Reich, Stanford: The ex-Colts and Panthers coach will be one-and-done in Palo Alto. Reich was hired as the team’s temporary coach when Stanford fired Troy Taylor after news broke of the school’s investigations into his treatment of staffers. Reich was brought in by…
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Author : Nick Bromberg
Publish date : 2025-07-22 13:00:00
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