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The college football coaching carousel continues to throw out surprises in the second week of December.
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On Wednesday, Michigan fired head coach Sherrone Moore after his second season coaching the Wolverines.
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The Big 12 has seen significant shake-up in its conference in recent days with Matt Campbell leaving Iowa State for Penn State. The Cyclones hired Jimmy Rogers from Washington State to replace Campbell.
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On Friday, Pete Thamel of ESPN revealed that head coach Kyle Whittingham is set to step down after the No. 15 Utes play Nebraska in the Las Vegas Bowl on Dec. 31. Utah plans to promote defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley to head coach.
"NEWS: Longtime Utah coach Kyle Whittingham is stepping down," Thamel posted on X. "He's gone 177-88 in 21 seasons there. He'll coach in the Las Vegas Bowl. Longtime defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley is the Utes' head coach in waiting. That's long been the school's planned transition."
Utah finished the regular season with a 10-2 record.
Whittingham is a legendary coach for the Utes, the only head coaching job he held in his career. He took the job after Urban Meyer left for Florida before the 2005 season.
Whittingham went 177-88 overall in his 21 years as the head coach at Utah, the most wins by a coach in program history.
Whittingham, 66, won the Mountain West Conference in 2008 and the Pac-12 Conference in 2021 and 2022. He earned Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year in 2019 and AFCA Coach of the Year in 2008. Whittingham played linebacker at BYU.
Scalley, 46, played defensive back at Utah from 2001 to 2004. He's been on the staff of the Utes since he started as a graduate assistant in 2007, and worked his way up to becoming the defensive coordinator and safeties coach in 2016.
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