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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Sport
Jesse Dougherty

A look at first-year college football coaches

Somewhere along the line, the annual shuffling of college football coaches started being referred to as the "coaching carousel."

Actually, it can appear more like a game of musical chairs. You could also call it a swap meet.

Mark Richt is out at Georgia, and in at Miami. Kirby Smart is no longer Nick Saban's right-hand man at Alabama; he's now in charge at Southeastern Conference rival Georgia.

And so it goes.

This fall, 15 major-college programs are being led by new-to-those-universities coaches.

Along with Miami, Georgia and USC, which now has Clay Helton at the helm, there were also changes at Baylor and South Carolina. Here's a look at those situations and others from the Power Five conferences and a top independent:

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