UAB Blazers College Football Preview 2023

[Coach Andy Mac]

2022 Record: 7-6 overall, 4-4 in Conference USA
Head Coach: Trent Dilfer, 1st year: 0-0
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If anything, UAB football has been a massively underappreciated sports story.

Here’s a school with a football team that didn’t make a peep of noise in a divided state that worships either the University of Alabama or Auburn, and it not only broke though, it thrived.
 
UAB first took up football in 1991 and spent five years as a lower level independent, moved into the FBS world in 1995, came up with just two winning seasons from 1996 to 2014, and then got put into a coma for two years.

This program didn’t exist. Maybe it would come back, maybe it wouldn’t. No big whoop.

But it did, and not only did it survive, it roared with head coach Bill Clark hitting the ground running with six straight winning seasons, two conference championships, regular bowl games, an 11-win 2018 season, and success, success, success in an unbelievable situation.

Easily, Clark belonged on any list of coaches who did the most with the least.

With all the wins came the interest, a nice new stadium, and from a near death experience the program moved up in weight class to the American Athletic Conference going into this season. It was more than just validation for a job well done, it was good deal for the AAC, too.

And then UAB hired Trent Dilfer as its new head coach.

read more: https://collegefootballnews.com/cfn/uab-blazers-college-football-preview-2023-breakdown-prediction-top-players-win-total

[meanrob]

He ain’t getting to six wins 

[Jonnyeagle]

I don't see 6 wins either.  They are sort of like us, probably could win C-USA most years but not the same player in the AAC.

[UNT86]

UAB, where a couple of minor felonies aren't a problem.  Now, get a third felony and maybe there is a problem.  But just two...they can deal with that.