Some coaching changes have been made throughout college football before the regular season has come to a close. On Monday, the number of fired head coaches grew to nine.
The Temple Owls fired Stan Drayton on Sunday after a three-year stint with the program, and the FAU Owls fired Tom Herman on Monday. Drayton was an assistant for the Texas Longhorns from 2017-21, and Herman was the head coach in Austin from 2017-20.
Temple and FAU played each other in Week 12, with Drayton’s team winning 18-15 in overtime.
The Nebraska Cornhuskers did not fire a coach but changed who calls plays on offense earlier this season.
Marcus Satterfield was the team’s offensive coordinator for the season’s first nine games. However, the program decided to promote former Houston Cougars head coach Dana Holgerson to the position during its bye in Week 11.
Under Satterfield, Nebraska was 12th in points (23.2), 11th in passing yards (225.4), and 13th in rushing yards per game (124.3) in the Big Ten.
Nebraska is one win away from its first bowl game appearance since 2016. In the post-game press conference following Nebraska’s loss to the USC Trojans, quarterback Dylan Raiola predicted that drought would end on Saturday.
The team is 5-5, with the Wisconsin Badgers next on the schedule. A win would snap the program’s eight-year bowl drought.
“I spent all bye week with (Holgorsen) and then obviously the game week,” Raiola said. “It’s important knowing what he’s gonna call and what he likes here and why he’s calling it so we can execute at the best of our ability. But we’re only gonna keep building on it these next two weeks. We’ll get the win next week and get us to a bowl.”
Nebraska has not beaten Wisconsin since 2012, when it won against the Badgers in the regular season but later lost to the same team in the Big Ten Championship that year.
The Nebraska-Wisconsin game kicks off Saturday at 3:30 p.m. ET on Big Ten Network.
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