Former USC coach Clay Helton will be the head coach at Georgia Southern after signing a five-year deal, sources told Yahoo Sports.
Helton won a Rose Bowl (2016 season) and Pac-12 title (2017) during his time at USC, where he coached parts of eight different seasons as the full-time and interim head coach.
Helton’s hiring means that one early season college football firing replaces another, as Georgia Southern fired Chad Lunsford in September after a 1-3 start. Helton is expected to start immediately at Georgia Southern, as he’ll observe practice, recruit and begin to assemble a staff.