The MAC win at Ohio was Tim Albin’s last game with the Bobcats.
According to multiple reportsAlbin is set to become the next coach in Charlotte. The 49ers fired coach Biff Poggi with two games remaining in the 2024 season.
Ohio beat Miami (Ohio), 38-3, on Saturday for its first conference title since 1968. The RedHawks took a 3-0 lead and quickly trailed 21-3 at halftime.
The win moves Ohio to 10-3 on the season and marks the third straight 10-win season for Albin’s squad. This 1968 season was previously the only other time Ohio won 10 games in a season.
Albin took over in Ohio following the retirement of Frank Solich. The Bobcats were extremely successful under Solich, but took a step back in 2021 during Albin’s first season with a 3-9 record. However, an all-conference season from QB Kurtis Rourke (now at Indiana) led the Bobcats to a 10-4 season that ended with a win in the Arizona Bowl.
Overall, Ohio was 33-19 in Albin’s four seasons.
Charlotte is looking to replicate the fleeting success it found under Will Healy. Poggi was fired after the 49ers went 6-16 as he took over before the 2023 season.
The 49ers have been to just one bowl game since launching a football program at college football’s highest level. That came in 2019, when Charlotte went 7-6. Healy was fired after a 1-7 start to the 2022 season.
That was Charlotte’s last year in Conference USA before moving to the American Athletic Conference. The AAC had the most coaching turnover of any conference in the nation, as Charlotte, East Carolina, Rice, Temple, Florida Atlantic and Tulsa made coaching changes either during or at the end of the season.