Around the Dog Park: Assistant coaches are getting handed pink slips

General G5 Football

• The trash talk leading up to the I-35 Showdown between UTSA and TXST was crude but fairly entertaining.
• Never too early to start linking G5 coaches to the likely soon-to-be-vacant Nebraska job, right?
• Cool article on one of the most underrated rivalries in college football.

• Congrats to UCF and New Mexico State on making SB Nation’s top ten teams of the week.
• Be sure to read our weekly FCS round up so you can impress your college football hipster friends with your FCS knowledge.

AAC

• UCF has added Austin Peay to their 2017 football schedule.
• Despite a decent start to the season from Logan Marchi, Temple’s quarterback position appears to be an open competition again.

C-USA

• Here are three things we learned from C-USA this week. UAB is a tough out, LA Tech is on the edge of greatness, and Brad Lambert needs to pack his bags.
• Louisiana Tech’s Teddy Veal is starting to come into his own after moving to the slot position.
• UTSA’s Shaq Williams has emerged as a receiving threat for the Roadrunners.
• Get to know ODU’s new starting quarterback, the 17-year-old Steven Williams.
• Marshall’s Trey Rodriguez has left the Herd’s program after losing his starting job. It’s certainly been a rocky collegiate career for the former FAU Owl.

• UTEP’s student news paper literally can’t even with Sean Kugler.
• UTSA’s defense will likely end up as the best in the program’s short history.
• The 2013 UNT squad received their Heart of Dallas bowl rings during the Mean Green’s game against UAB last week.
• As the wheels continue to fall off in El Paso Sean Kugler has moved to playing his freshman quarterback.
• Here’s how Western Kentucky measures in statistical categories. It’s clear the program is starkly changing under Sanford Jr.
• WKU beat Ball State 33-21 on Saturday. The Towel Rack handed out grades for the performance.
• Brad Lambert has promoted Charlotte’s offensive line coach to handle play-calling duties. Jeff Mullen will move to coach the quarterbacks. Writing on the wall, and all that.
• Conference USA has some great names. Here’s an all-conference team selected solely by name.
• UTEP is no longer the worst team in Conference USA! They’re still absolutely awful!

Sun Belt

• Doug Martin is set to receive a much-deserved contract extension from New Mexico State.
• Speaking of NMSU, is it too early to call them a legitimate Sun Belt contender? No, no it is not.
• Louisiana-Lafayette is allowing 53.8 points per game.. YIKES.
• South Alabama offensive coordinator Bryant Vincent has been let go. No succession plan has been announced at this time.
• The ULM rebuild finally has a solid building block to work off of after the Warhawks knocked off an in-state rival in overtime.

• Despite the big win for ULM, they were hit with some bad news this weekend after losing their leading tackler for the season.
• Georgia Southern fans are FED UP but who could blame them? They’ve been flooding their school president’s inbox with emails calling for Coach Summers to be let go.