The Dallas Renegades are turning to a familiar college football name to lead them into their next chapter.
On Wednesday, the team announced Kevin Sumlin as its new head coach, bringing in a coach who once piled up wins at Houston and Texas A&M before later taking a turn through the UFL with the Houston Gamblers. Sumlin, 62, spent the 2025 season away from football after two years as the University of Maryland’s associate head coach.
Sumlin’s résumé still carries the kind of moments that made him a major figure in college football. From 2008 to 2020, he went 95-63 overall as a college head coach, including Texas A&M’s 2013 Cotton Bowl win over Oklahoma.
At Houston, where he started his head coaching career in 2008, he helped develop Case Keenum into the NCAA’s all-time leading passer during the quarterback’s time with the Cougars. Sumlin finished 35-17 there before moving to College Station.
His first season at Texas A&M was his best splash. He brought Johnny Manziel to the forefront and guided the Aggies to an 11-2 record in their first year in the SEC.
The results dipped after that. Texas A&M went 9-5 or 8-5 in each of the next four seasons, and Sumlin was dismissed in 2017 after a 7-5 finish.
He left the Aggies with a 51-26 record.
After Texas A&M, Sumlin took over at Arizona, where the results never really clicked. He went 9-20 with the Wildcats. His last stint as a head coach came in 2022 with the Houston Gamblers, where he went 3-7.
Now the Renegades are betting that Sumlin can bring some of that earlier winning back to the UFL.
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BYU arrives in Fort Worth unbeaten at 3-0 and fresh off a bye week, which only raises the degree of difficulty for a TCU team trying to find its footing. The setting gives the Frogs a chance to answer at home against a ranked opponent, and with broadcast details already in place, the spotlight is set for a game that could say plenty about where this team is headed next. [Read more 🡒]