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Alphabetically by team, here are the FCS coaching changes for 2024.
Former head coach Fred McNair (Dec. 19) – 7-4 record in 2023, 48-33 in 7 seasons
New head coach Cedric Thomas (Dec. 19) – Was Alcorn State DC under McNair past two seasons.
Former head coach Scotty Walden (Dec. 4) – 9-3 record in 2023, 26-14 in four overall seasons
New head coach Jeff Faris (Dec. 9) – former Duke assistant spent the 2022 and ’23 seasons as UCLA’s tight ends coach
Former head coach Mike Minter (Dec. 18) – 5-6 record in 2023, 49-66 in 11 overall seasons
New head coach Braxton Harris (Jan. 2) – Campbell assistant coach in 2021-22 returns after going 5-5 in one season guiding Houston Christian
Interim head coach Mark Fabish (Nov. 21) – 3-7 record in 2023
New head coach Jon Poppe (Dec. 2) – former Columbia assistant went 10-2 as Union’s head coach in 2023
Former head coach David Archer (Nov. 19) – 3-7 record in 2023, 29-71 in 10 overall seasons
New head coach Dan Swanstrom (Dec. 7) – served as Penn’s offensive coordinator in 2022 and ‘23 after going 32-11 as Ithaca’s head coach from 2017-21
Interim head coach Sammy McCorkle (April 4, 2023)
New head coach Sammy McCorkle (Oct. 19) – Elevated to the full-time position
Former head coach George Quarles (Nov. 19) – 3-8 record in 2023, 6-16 in two overall seasons
New head coach Tre Lamb (Nov. 27) – former Gardner-Webb coach guided program’s first two playoff appearances
Former head coach Willie Simmons (Jan. 1) – 12-1 record in 2023, 45-13 in five overall seasons
New head coach James Colzie III (Jan. 27) – elevated from assistant head coach/defensive backs coach; previously guided the Saint Mary’s program in Canada from 2016-21
Former coach Tre Lamb (Nov. 27) – 7-5 record in 2023, 20-20 in four overall seasons
New head coach Cris Reisert (Dec. 12) – posted a 40-11 record at Tiffin during the 2019-23 seasons; was Elon’s tight ends coach from 2014-16
Former head coach Hue Jackson (Nov. 28) – 5-6 record in 2023, 8-14 in two overall seasons
New head coach Mickey Joseph (Dec. 18) – assistant coaching experience includes GSU and two other SWAC schools; went 3-6 in 2022 as the interim coach at Nebraska, his alma mater.
Former head coach Robert Prunty (April 30) – 5-6 record in 2023, 26-29 in five overall seasons
New head coach Trent Boykin (April 30) – Elevated from running backs and special teams coach
Former head coach Tim Murphy (Jan. 17) – 8-2 record in 2023, 200-89 in 29 overall seasons
New head coach Andrew Aurich (Feb. 9) – served most recently as Rutgers’ tight end coach after spending a lot of time in the Ivy League as a Princeton player and offensive coordinator
Former head coach Bob Chesney (Dec. 7) – 7-4 record in 2023, 44-21 in six overall seasons
New head coach Dan Curran (Dec. 15) – guided Merrimack for 11 seasons, including the Warriors’ move into Division I
Former head coach Braxton Harris (Jan. 2) – went 5-5 in one season with Huskies in 2023
New head coach Jason Bachtel (Jan. 4) – the Huskies’ 2023 offensive coordinator went 16-9 at Howard Payne over the 2020-22 seasons
Former head coach Jim Parady (Nov. 29) – 4-7 record in 2023, 155-171-1 in 32 overall seasons
New head coach Mike Willis (Dec. 19) – served as assistant head coach and offensive coordinator at Princeton
Former head coach Drew Cronic (Jan. 9) – 9-4 record in 2023, 28-17 in four overall seasons
New head coach Mike Jacobs (Jan. 18) – went a combined 74-17 record at Notre Dame (Ohio) and Lenoir-Rhyne (he also succeeded Cronic at Lenoir-Rhyne)
Former head coach Dan Curran (Dec. 15) – 5-6 record in 2023, 53-58 in 11 overall seasons
New head coach Mike Gennetti (Dec. 18) – elevated from defensive coordinator and after 19 seasons on staff as an assistant coach
Former head coach Rob Tenyer (Nov. 20) – 4-7 record in 2023, 47-73 in 11 overall seasons
New head coach Jason Woodman (Dec. 19) – compiled a 60-47 record in 10 seasons at Fairmont State with a Division II playoff appearance in 2016.
Former head coach Dean Hood (Jan. 1) – 2-9 record in 2023, 15-25 in four overall seasons
New head coach Jody Wright (Jan. 10) – A part of the Nick Saban coaching family tree who served as South Carolina’s tight end coach in the 2022 and ’23 seasons
Head coach Matt Entz (Dec. 10) – 11-4 record in 2023, 60-11 in five overall seasons
New head coach Tim Polasek (Dec. 17) – Wyoming’s offensive coordinator returns to the Bison, having been a part of four FCS championship teams as an assistant coach
Former head coach Chris Ball (Nov. 20) – 5-6 record in 2013, 20-30 in five overall seasons
New head coach Brian Wright (Dec. 3) – went 33-8 as Pittsburg State’s head coach from 2019-23
Former head coach Brad Laird (Oct. 26) – 0-6 record in 2023, 16-41 in six overall seasons
New head coach Blaine McCorkle (Nov. 28) – went 31-25 in six seasons guiding Division III Belhaven
Former head coach Buddy Pough (Nov. 19) – 5-6 record in 2023, 151-93 in 22 overall seasons
New head coach Chennis Berry (Dec. 7) – long-time HBCU coach went 27-7 while guiding Benedict in the 2021-23 seasons
Former head coach Eric Dooley (Nov. 14) – 5-5 record in 2023, 12-10 in two overall seasons
New head coach Terrence Graves (Dec. 12) – served as Southern’s assistant head coach and linebackers coach in 2023, his 15th season with the Jaguars over four stints
Former head coach Chuck Priore (Nov. 13) – 0-10 record in 2023, 97-111 in 18 overall seasons
New head coach Billy Cosh (Dec. 13) – Western Michigan offensive coordinator previously led the offenses at VMI and Richmond
Former head coach Dewayne Alexander (Nov. 21) – 4-7 record in 2023, 20-43 in six overall seasons
New head coach Bobby Wilder (Dec. 3) – went 77-56 at Old Dominion from 2009-19 while taking an FCS startup program up to FBS level
Former head coach Clarence McKinney (Nov. 20) – 3-8 record in 2023, 12-35 in five overall seasons
New head coach Cris Dishman (Jan. 12) – Two-time NFL Pro Bowler played in Houston with the Oilers, served as a defensive coordinator in the USFL and XFL in recent seasons
Former head coach Dan Hawkins (Nov. 28) – 7-4 record in 2023, 44-31 in seven overall seasons
New head coach Tim Plough (Dec. 1) – former Aggies quarterback who coached under Hawkins and returns after short stints at Boise State and Cal
Former head coach Paul Peterson (Nov. 20) – 2-9 record in 2023, 17-29 in five overall seasons
New head coach Lance Anderson (Dec. 8) – first-time head coach spent the 2007-22 seasons on Stanford’s staff
Former head coach David Dean resigned Nov. 13 (effective 11/30) - 6-4 in 2023, 48-20 in 6 seasons at West Georgia, 127-47 over-all
New head coach Joel Taylor (Dec. 2) - DC at Mercer since 2019. First HC job
Former head coach Myers Hendrickson (Nov. 20) – 0-11 record in 2023, 0-22 in two overall seasons
New head coach Joe Davis (Dec. 10) – has served as an assistant at FCS programs Albany, Fordham, Northern Iowa and Eastern Illinois