College Football: 6 predictions for sophomore coaches in 2018
There are six guys entering their second seasons as college football head coaches. Find out how they will fare in the 2018 season.
A sophomore season for a college football head coach can often be a telling time. After two years the coaching staff has had time to get on the same page, time to build a recruiting base, and time to establish their program culture and schemes.
In 2018, there are six head football coaches entering their sophomore seasons in charge of a program. This won’t include a coach like P.J. Fleck who is in his second year at Minnesota but has been a head coach for multiple seasons. This is simply someone that is entering their second year as a head football coach at all.
Amongst the six coaches, I will be taking a look at two are in peculiar situations that sort of leave an asterisk regarding their sophomore status. Those two outliers are both named Luke.
Luke Fickell enters his second year at Cincinnati and technically had been the head football coach at The Ohio State University back in 2011, and Matt Luke at Ole Miss who had the interim tag during the 2017 season after the debacle that was Hugh Freeze’s last days in Oxford.
With that said, the other four candidates are all firmly sophomores, and those candidates are: Major Applewhite at Houston, Tom Allen at Indiana, Geoff Collins at Temple and Lincoln Riley at Oklahoma.
Take a look at my predictions for the six sophomore head coaches