College Football Coaching News

Kansas State head coach Bill Snyder (right) greets TCU head coach Gary Patterson after TCU defeated Kansas State 14-13 on November 3, in Amon G. Carter Stadium, on the TCU Campus in Fort Worth, Texas.        -- photo by Tom C. "Midnite" Burke

Kansas State: Kansas State head football coach Bill Snyder has retired at the age of 79. Snyder went 215-117-1 over 27 seasons at Kansas State, including a 128-89-1 record in the Big 12, with two conference titles. The Wildcats went 5-7 this year and missed out on a bowl for just the fourth time since 1992 under Snyder, who in 2015 became the fourth active coach to be enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame. Snyder was hired at Kansas State in 1989. Snyder previously retired in 2005. When successor Ron Prince was fired three years later, Snyder returned as the Wildcats' head coach. Snyder's 215 career victories are the fourth most among active FBS coaches, behind North Carolina's Mack Brown (238), Notre Dame's Brian Kelly (219) and Alabama's Nick Saban (218).

Ron Day (right) talks with TCU head coach Gary Patterson prior to the Frogs' game against Ohio State on September 15, in AT&T Stadium, in Arlington, Texas. Day coached the Buckeyes in the game. Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer had been suspended for the Buckeyes' first three games of the season. Ohio State beat TCU 40-28.           -- Photo by Tom C. "Midnite" Burke

Ohio State: Urban Meyer is retiring as head coach of Ohio State after the Rose Bowl game against Washington. Effective January 2, Ohio State offensive coordinator Ron Day will be the Buckeyes' head coach. Meyer, who is 54 years old, has an arachnoid cyst on his brain. The cyst was diagnosed in 1998 and has worsened the past few years. Meyer has coached Ohio State for the past seven years. Meyer is 82-9 as Ohio State's coach and 54-4 in Big Ten play, with seven division titles (shared or outright), three conference championships and a national championship after the 2014 season, the first year of the College Football Playoff. Meyer is 186-32 as a college head coach at Ohio State, Florida, Utah and Bowling Green, with three national championships and seven conference championships. Day, 39, is in his second season on the Buckeyes' staff after previously working with the San Francisco 49ers and the Philadelphia Eagles. He served as Ohio State's co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2017.

TCU lost to Kliff Kingsbury and his Texas Tech Red Raiders 17-14 in a Thursday night game played on October 11 in Amon G. Carter Stadium on the TCU Campus in Fort Worth, Texas.             -- Photo by Tom C. "Midnite" Burke

USC: Kliff Kingsbury has been hired by USC as its offensive coordinator. Kingsbury recently was fired as head coach of Texas Tech. Kingsbury, 39, replaces Tee Martin, who was fired as the Trojans' offensive coordinator. Texas Tech hired Utah State head coach Matt Wells to replace Kingsbury.

Louisville: Scott Satterfield, head football coach at Appalachian State, has been hired by Louisville as its new football coach. Satterfield, 45, replaces Bobby Petrino, who was fired during the season when the Cardinals had a 2-8 record.

Maryland: Mike Locksley has been named head football coach at Maryland. He replaces DJ Durkin, who was fired in October. Matt Canada, who had been the Terrapins' offensive coordinator, was Maryland's interim head coach this past season. He went 5-7. Locksley had been offensive coordinator at Alabama. Locksley is familiar with Maryland. He oversaw the running backs there from 1997 to 2002. He was Maryland's offensive coordinator from 2012-15, and was the team's interim head coach for the last six games of 2015 after Randy Edsall was fired. He went 1-5 as Maryland's interim head coach. Locksley went 1-15 for parts of three seasons (2009-11) as New Mexico's head coach before being fired. 

Colorado: Georgia defensive coordinator Mel Tucker has been hired as the new head football coach at Colorado. Tucker replaces Mike MacIntyre who was fired with one game remaining in the regular season.  

Missouri: Head football coach Barry Odom's contract has been extended by two years.