Baylor coach Dave Aranda continued to raise his stock as a potential USC candidate with a win over Texas, while Luke Fickell remains a tough target.
We’re checking the temperature of the USC football coaching search. Here’s why Baylor’s Dave Aranda is considered a top candidate for the job.Sark hasn’t been USC’s coach for more than six years now, but his name remains a trigger from the Trojans’ campus to the South Bay to Orange County.
Here are two things to file away about Baylor’s win over Texas that reflect well on Aranda’s acumen. First, the Bears held Texas running back Bijan Robinson, who entered the game as a fringe Heisman Trophy candidate, to 17 carries for 43 yards. Second, in the offseason, Aranda converted a starting linebacker, Abram Smith, to running back. Smith carried 20 times for 113 yards and a touchdown, and his absence hasn’t seemed to affect the defense all season.
No. 2 Cincinnati — wow, that is so fun to say — led lowly Tulane 14-12 at halftime Saturday a week after escaping Navy 27-20. The Bearcats shut out the Green Wave in the second half and won 31-12, but we know where this is headed. Fickell is such an intense competitor that if Cincinnati loses, he will convince himself that it’s his fault the Bearcats missed the playoff, which would give him an incentive to stay and make up for the setback. But if Cincinnati goes 13-0 and is kept out of the playoff semifinals, he may see the writing on the wall.
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