College football coach leaves team a week before the season starts
UConn opens the 2022 college football season in a few days, but the Huskies will kick things off without defensive coordinator Lou Spanos.
The coach has taken a leave of absence from the football program for personal reasons and will be out an unspecified period of time, the school announced.
No further details for his leaving the team were immediately made available.
Why it matters: Spanos served as the UConn defensive coordinator going back to the 2019 season and prior to that was Jim Mora's defensive play-caller at UCLA in 2012 and 2013.
Mora was named UConn head football coach this offseason.
Spanos previously filled in for Randy Edsall as the Huskies' interim head coach during the 2021 season after Edsall announced he planned to retire, and before a "mutual decision" was revealed by the school to cut ties the next day.
Spanos went 1-9 as the interim head coach.
The 51 year old joined the UConn football staff after a brief stint as defensive analyst at Alabama in the 2018 season.
He also coached defense with three NFL franchises, including the Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Redskins, and Tennessee Titans from 1995 to 2011.
Who does UConn have left? It's unclear who will step in as UConn's defensive coordinator.
- Defensive backs coach Dalton Hilliard is the single member of the Huskies' defensive staff that has held a coordinator position before: at FCS school UT Martin in 2019.
- Kenny McClendon was the former defensive line coach at Youngstown State and Siriki Diabate coached linebackers at Middle Tennessee State.
- Mora also has experience coaching defense, including with the San Francisco 49ers.
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8/27 $10 NM ST + 10 - 130
Wolf Pack were excellent last season, it lost QB Carson Strong and WR Romeo Doubs. Coach Jay Norvell left to take the Colorado State job, and took a number of Nevada's most important players with him. The cupboard in Reno has been left bare, and while New Mexico State's routinely been one of the worst teams in the country, new coach Jerry Kill will have them ready for the season-opener.
8/27 $10 NM ST + 10 - 130
Wolf Pack were excellent last season, it lost QB Carson Strong and WR Romeo Doubs. Coach Jay Norvell left to take the Colorado State job, and took a number of Nevada's most important players with him. The cupboard in Reno has been left bare, and while New Mexico State's routinely been one of the worst teams in the country, new coach Jerry Kill will have them ready for the season-opener.
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Personally I am not a big fan of these huge favorites....but....
Don't know if any games will apply but there are a couple that might
HUGE FAVORITES (-37.5 POINTS OR MORE) HAVE BEEN AUTOMATIC IN
THE OPENING WEEK(S) OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL SINCE 2013, GOING 9-0 SU AND ATS.
Personally I am not a big fan of these huge favorites....but....
Don't know if any games will apply but there are a couple that might
HUGE FAVORITES (-37.5 POINTS OR MORE) HAVE BEEN AUTOMATIC IN
THE OPENING WEEK(S) OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL SINCE 2013, GOING 9-0 SU AND ATS.
looks like it is specific to teams playing a FBS opponent, not a FCS one. playing an FCS opponent is 62-1 SU but just 32-28-3 ATS
you'll also notice none of the 9 games went under
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