Brennan Leaves San Jose State For Arizona Job

January 16, 2024 by CollegeFootballPoll.com Staff

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On January 16, Arizona hired Brent Brennan away from San Jose State to fill the spot vacated by Jedd Fisch when he left for Washington to succeed Kalen DeBoer who was hired to replace Nick Saban at Alabama.

Brennan was 34-48 in 7 seasons with the Spartans, and won a Mountain West title in the 2020 Covid season. He was 25-30 in conference play and 0-3 in bowl games.

On January 14, Washington named Fisch as the successor to DeBoer. Fisch, in his first head coaching gig, elevated Arizona from 1-11 in his first season to 10-3 in 2023 with a 38-24 Alamo Bowl win over Oklahoma. He served as an interim head coach at UCLA in 2017, going 1-1 with a 35-17 Cactus Bowl loss to Kansas State, making his overall record 17-22.

DeBoer was named the new head coach at Alabama on Friday, January 12. DeBoer was 25-3 in 2 seasons with Washington, including a 14-1 mark in 2023 with the lone loss coming to Michigan in the national championship game. He was 12-6 at Fresno State after going 67-3 at Sioux Falls when it was a D3 school. Add it all up and his career record is 104-12.

Saban on Wednesday, January 10 resigned as head coach of Alabama. He is universally considered the generational best at his profession. Calling him THE greatest of all time (G.O.A.T.) gets a little tricky, if only because Bear Bryant coached at the same school. Saban has won 7 national titles, and 6 of those came at Alabama which is the same number as the Bear. No other head coach today is even on the radar of getting to 6 or 7 national titles at the FBS level. Urban Meyer, who is unemployed from coaching and should stay that way, has 3. Dabo Swinney has 2.

Saban's career coaching record is 292–71–1, including a ridiculous 201–29 record at Alabama where his teams went 117-18 in the SEC, won 11 conference championships in 17 seasons and went 14-4 in postseason games. He was the SEC coach of the year 5 times, and would have probably doubled that if the voters hadn't gotten tired of voting for him.

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