The college football season is only a month old and the coaching carousel has already started spinning — with UCLA, Virginia Tech and now Oklahoma State looking for new leaders.

Gophers head coach P.J. Fleck was a top candidate for the UCLA opening in February 2024, receiving a significant offer from the Bruins. But Fleck turned it down, and the Bruins went on to hire DeShaun Foster, who went 5-7 in his first year and was fired Sept. 14 after an 0-3 start.

The Pioneer Press understands there is nothing brewing between UCLA and Fleck this time around, but the fellow Big Ten program might not have the only nationwide opening during this cycle that could involve Fleck.

“His name’s going to come up at every job,” Gophers athletics director Mark Coyle told the Pioneer Press two days after th

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