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Montana moved on after beating Furman 35-28 in OT last night. QB Clifton McDowell threw for 208, ran for 118, and had 2 TD.
 

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South Dakota State is moving on to the FCS Title Game after demolishing Albany 59-0. QB Matt Gronowski threw for 265 and 3 TD.

Cortland won their first DIII Title upsetting defending champion North Central 38-37. "Zac Boyes threw for 349 yards and five touchdowns and rushed for 123 yards." North Central entered with the nation's longest active win streak with 29. South Dakota State, which won its FCS semifinal game on Friday, has 28 straight wins, followed by Washington (20), Florida State (19) and Division II Harding (18).

Holy Cross hired Merrimack HC Dan Curran as their new HC. Curran set the Merrimack record with 53 victories in his 11 seasons on the job and Merrimack reached the DII Northeast Conference title game in both 2022 and '23. He played under OC Chip Kelly at New Hampshire and spent time with the Saints in 2004 and Seahawks in 2008 & 2009.
 

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Former NFL player Mike Minter has resigned as Campbell HC having coached there for 11 seasons. He went 6-5 for 3 straight years from 2017-2019.

Grambling is close to hiring longtime CFB Coach Mickey Joseph. He coached WR there from 2014-2015 and coached WRs at LSU from 2017-2021.
 

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New Mexico hired Bronco Mendenhall as their new HC and he's named former BYU QB Jason Beck as his OC. Bronco's best known for being BYU's HC from 2005-2015 (with 5 seasons of 10+ wins) and recently was HC at Virginia from 2016-2021. Bronco coached at New Mexico from 1998-2002 as their DC so he has ties to the school.
 

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Rick Stockstill is out at Middle Tennessee after 18 seasons. Derek Mason, who was DC at Auburn in 2021 & Oklahoma State in 2022 will take over.

Jeff Choate is taking over as Nevada's HC. He previously was a HC at Montana State from 2016-2019 and was Co-DC at Texas this past season.

Bobby Wilder, who led Old Dominion for a long time with a 77-56 record has been named the new HC at Tennessee Tech.
 

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I don't think Washington will be easy by any means, but Michigan just has that look and feel about them. Hell of a Rose Bowl yesterday.
 

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Zac Alley will be the new DC at Oklahoma, replacing Ted Roof. Hawai'i is also moving on from Ian Shoemaker as OC after Timmy Chang took over playcalling duties mid-season last year.
 

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Why the hell is there football being played at UWV in mid-January?
I'm assuming because he's still in high school and is going to visit the school he will be attending in the fall? I don't really get the question
 

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I could only watch the first half but I wonder how much different the game could have been if that 4th and 7 ball didn't get dropped. Michigan was obviously the better team regardless but you alter the score a little bit and a lot of weird shit could happen.


Defensively this is an all-time level team.
 
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Longtime Houston Oiler DB Cris Dishman is the new HC at Texas Southern.

Kalen DeBoer is also bolting from Washington to succeed Nick Saban in Alabama... big shoes to fill at that program. Should be interesting to watch.

Cadillac Williams, RB Coach at Auburn since 2019, has resigned.
 

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Timmy Chang getting the band back together by bringing in Dan Morrison (longtime QB Coach under June Jones) and Jeff Reinebold (longtime ST Coach in the CFL, also coached with June at Hawaii and SMU). Longtime DC Dennis Thurman has also been hired as their new DC.
 

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Pretty big news for Harvard: "Longtime Harvard head coach Tim Murphy is expected to retire today, sources told FootballScoop on Wednesday. Murphy has run the Crimson football program since 1994, a 30-season run that produced precisely 200 victories and 10 Ivy League championships."
 

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Bill O'Brien is the new OC at THE Ohio State
 

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Fresh blood!
I legit like that dudes like him are true football lifers and willing to coach at such schools. There's something to be said for being that passionate at that age to continue.
 

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Lots of fallout over the Saban retiring stuff as now San Jose State is targeting longtime Navy head coach Ken Niumatalolo as its next head coach, sources told FootballScoop on Saturday. The news was first reported by ESPN.
 
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Lots of fallout over the Saban retiring stuff as now San Jose State is targeting longtime Navy head coach Ken Niumatalolo as its next head coach, sources told FootballScoop on Saturday. The news was first reported by ESPN.
Craig Stutzmann will be the new OC at San Jose State under Niumatalolo. He's bounced around at multiple schools but relies on a spread system with some R&S principles and more of a varied attack. Proof that Ken isn't planning to bring any kind of Navy Flexbone Option attack out to the West Coast.
 
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