Mississippi State announced Monday that it had fired head football coach Zach Arnett after just one season.
Arnett, who had served as the Bulldogs’ defensive coordinator for three seasons, was promoted to head coach last December after the sudden death of Mike Leach. Arnett’s hiring also came with the school searching for an athletic director, as John Cohen had left a little more than a month earlier to be the Auburn athletic director.
Mississippi State (4-6, 1-6 in the SEC) has lost six of its past eight games and is coming off a 51-10 loss to Texas A&M, which just fired its coach, Jimbo Fisher, on Sunday.