The MAC title win in Ohio was Tim Albin’s last game with the Bobcats.
According to multiple reportsAlbin will be the next coach at Charlotte. The 49ers fired coach Biff Poggi with two games left in the 2024 season.
Ohio defeated Miami (Ohio) 38-3 on Saturday for the team’s first conference title since 1968. The RedHawks took a 3-0 lead and promptly trailed 21-3 at halftime.
The win moved Ohio to 10-3 on the season and marks the third straight 10-win season for Albin’s team. That 1968 season previously marked the only other time Ohio had won 10 games in a season.
Albin took over at Ohio following the retirement of Frank Solich. The Bobcats were extremely successful under Solich, but took a step back in 2021 during Albin’s first season with a 3-9 record. However, an all-conference season from QB Kurtis Rourke (now at Indiana) led the Bobcats to a 10-4 season that ended with an Arizona Bowl victory.
Overall, Ohio was 33-19 in Albin’s four seasons.
Charlotte wants to repeat Will Healy’s fleeting success. Poggi was fired after the 49ers went 6-16 since he took over ahead of the 2023 season.
The 49ers have been to just one bowl game since starting a football program at the highest level of college football. That came in 2019 when Charlotte went 7-6. Healy was fired after a 1-7 start to the 2022 season.
That was Charlotte’s last year in Conference USA before moving to the American Athletic Conference. The AAC had by far the most coaching turnover of any conference in the country, as Charlotte, East Carolina, Rice, Temple, Florida Atlantic and Tulsa all made coaching changes during or at the end of the season.
