ATLANTA — The college football world moves from New York to Atlanta this week for Thursday’s College Football Awards show, which means so does speculation about coaching vacancies.
With Oregon hiring Willie Taggart on Wednesday, all of the Power Five jobs are filled, meaning the carousel will be relatively calm this year barring a surprise departure. The focus now shifts to the American Athletic Conference, where there are suddenly vacancies at Cincinnati, Houston, Temple and South Florida.
The AAC has become college football’s prime launching pad league and a magnet for some of the top young coaching talent in the game.