College football teams with new head coaches generally struggle in the first year as the players are often times learning new schemes on both sides of the ball. In addition, the new head coach is left with recruits from the previous regime, which means that he often times does not have the best personnel to run his system.
COLLEGE COACHING CHANGES FOR 2012:
- Akron Terry Bowden
- Arizona Rich Rodriguez
- Arizona State Todd Graham
- Arkansas John L. Smith
- Arkansas State Gus Malzahn
- Colorado State Jim McElwain
- Florida Atlantic Carl Pelini
- Fresno State Tim DeRuyter
- Hawaii Norm Chow
- Houston Tony Levine
- Illinois Tim Beckman
- Kansas Charlie Weis
- Memphis Justin Fuente
- Mississippi Hugh Freeze
- New Mexico Bob Davie
- North Carolina Larry Fedora
- Ohio State Urban Meyer
- Penn State Tom Bradley
- Pittsburgh Paul Chryst
- Rutgers Kyle Flood
- Southern Mississippi Ellis Johnson
- Texas A&M Kevin Sumlin
- Toledo Matt Campbell
- Tulane Curtis Johnson
- UAB Garrick McGee
- UCLA Jim Mora, Jr.
- UMass Charlie Moinar
- Washington State Mike Leach
Despite the coaching changes listed above, I still like Houston, Fresno State, Ohio State, UCLA and Pittsburgh to out-perform expectations this season.
