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The Michigan Wolverines' coaching search since the firing of Sherrone Moore has coincided with the College Football Playoff as the nation's biggest story.
On Friday night, one of the linked-to favorites for the empty seat, Kalen DeBoer, came back from a 0-17 deficit on the road against Oklahoma to lead Alabama to a monumental victory to set up a date with the top-seeded Indiana Hoosiers at the Rose Bowl.
After that game, the feeling shifted with DeBoer, as the transfer portal opens a day after the Rose Bowl, and Michigan has little time to wait much longer on a hire.
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The other front-runner, Arizona State’s Kenny Dillingham, hit the Wolverines with a second gut punch on Saturday as he decided to continue his coaching tenure out west instead of heading north.
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Dillingham has re-signed with the Sun Devils with a new average salary of $7.5 million, with the overall coaching staff having a pool of $11 million. The move makes Dillingham and Arizona State among the highest-paid staff in the Big 12 Conference, ending any discussion of him leaving.
Arizona State, though it had an overall disappointing season after reaching the CFP in 2024, believes it can return to the top of the Big 12 behind Dillingham.
Dillingham’s first major task now that he has re-signed is finding a new starting quarterback, as the man who led the Sun Devils to the Playoff, Sam Leavitt, will be heading elsewhere in the transfer portal for the 2026 season.
After a difficult first season in the desert in 2023, when he went 3-9, Dillingham has transformed the Sun Devils program over the past two years with an overall record of 19-7.
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