There are now six head coaching jobs in the AAC.
Tulsa fired coach Kevin Wilson after the Golden Hurricane’s loss to USF on Saturday. Wilson is the sixth coach in the 14-team conference to lose his job through the 2024 season after East Carolina, Charlotte, Rice, Temple and Florida Atlantic previously made coaching changes.
“I would like to thank Coach Wilson for his dedication to the University of Tulsa, our student-athletes and the football program over the past two years.” Tulsa athletic director Justin Moore said in a statement. “Under his leadership, our student-athletes have excelled in the classroom and represented our university in a first-rate fashion. I wish him and his family the best moving forward.”
Former North Carolina wide receiver Ryan Switzer will be the team’s interim coach for the final game of the regular season.
Tulsa is 1-6 in the AAC and 3-8 overall after Saturday’s 63-30 game. Only FAU has a worse record in conference play this season at 0-7. Tulsa has scored more than 40 points six times this season and is 1-5 in those games.
Wilson was in his second season at Tulsa after taking over for Philip Montgomery. The Golden Hurricane finished 4-8 a season ago and haven’t been to a bowl game since the 2021 season.
Wilson is a longtime college coach and former head coach at Indiana. Between 2011 and 2016, he coached six seasons in Bloomington and went 26-47 with the Hoosiers. Indiana went to bowl games in each of his last two seasons with the school, but never won more than six games in a season.
The coaching merry-go-round is in full swing in the AAC, though it is widely expected to be slow in the rest of college football. There are few power conference coaches who appear to be in danger of losing their jobs as a settlement for schools to pay players as soon as next season rolls around.
Of the schools that made coaching changes in the conference, only East Carolina has a winning record. The Pirates have won four straight since firing Mike Houston after the loss to Army.