Duke head coach David Cutcliffe stepping down

According to Football Scoop, Duke head coach David Cutcliffe will be stepping down. He has been in charge of the Blue Devil program since 2008, leading them 77-97 record.

This season was the third straight with a losing record, going 3-9 overall and 0-8 within the ACC. Cutcliffe’s peak while with Duke came during the 2013 season, reaching a conference championship game and winning 10 regular-season games.

Cutcliffe was named the ACC Coach of the Year twice (2012, 2013) while in Durham. Of the program’s six career bowl wins, three have come under the now-former head coach.

Duke was on a 19-year streak of not appearing in the AP poll before the 2013 season. Finishing the season in the poll that same year, Cutcliffe broke a 53-year streak of not appearing in the final edition.

Cutcliffe not only coach on the move

Since the college football season ended on Saturday, there have been a wide variety of moves across the country. Some, a bit crazier than others.

Lincoln Riley turned the 2021 coaching carousel upside down on Sunday, as the Oklahoma Sooners head coach reportedly left Norman, Oklahoma for Los Angeles to become the next head coach of the USC Trojans.

On Sunday night, USC made it official with a Twitter post introducing Riley as the program’s next head coach.

 “We are ecstatic to announce Lincoln Riley as our new head coach and welcome his wife Caitlin and their daughters Sloan and Stella to the Trojan Family,” USC athletic director Mike Bohn said in a press release. “Lincoln is the rarest combination of extraordinary person and elite football coach. His successes and offensive accolades as a head coach the past five years are astonishing. Lincoln will recruit relentlessly, develop his players on and off the field, and implement a strong culture in which the program will operate with the highest level of integrity and professionalism.”

Riley took over for Stoops in June 2017. Initially hired by Stoops as an offensive coordinator in 2015, Riley built the Sooners into a top-10 offense in the 2016 season and won the Broyles Award, given to the nation’s top assistant coach. With Riley’s departure, the Sooners brought Stoops out of retirement to take over as the interim head coach.