UAB football was discontinued after the 2014 season but restarted in 2017 and had a good run under coach Bill Clark, with ...

Trent Dilfer didn’t last long as a college football head coach. UAB fired the former Super Bowl-winning quarterback Sunday night after just two-plus season in which he amassed a 9-21 record. The ...

UAB head coach Trent Dilfer went viral on Saturday before his team kicked off against the Tennessee Vols when ESPN's cameras caught him taking photos with his cell phone on the sideline. Trent Dilfer ...

Trent Dilfer, 53, an Aptos native who played 13 seasons in the NFL and helped Baltimore win Super Bowl XXXV in 2000, was fired as University of Alabama at Birmingham’s football coach on Sunday. His ...

After Dilfer was dismissed, Alex Mortensen took over as interim head coach and led UAB to victories over the No. 22 Memphis Tigers and Tulsa Golden Hurricane. The Tulsa victory came this past Saturday ...

Mortensen, 40, took over as the Blazers' interim coach halfway through the 2025 season following the firing of Trent Dilfer. In his debut, Mortensen and UAB upset then-No. 22 Memphis; overall, the ...

UAB football is expected to promote interim head coach Alex Mortensen, according to ESPN’s Pete Thamel. The Blazers fired head coach Trent Dilfer six games into the season after losing on the road to ...

Alex Mortensen, the son of late ESPN NFL reporter Chris Mortensen, was named interim head coach of the UAB Dragons earlier this season after former head coach and ESPN analyst Trent Dilfer was fired.

Alex Mortensen, the son of late former ESPN NFL reporter Chris Mortensen, has landed his first college football head coach gig. The University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB) is making Mortensen their ...

A radio appearance by UAB's Trent Dilfer and a social media post from Tulane coach Jon Sumrall shed some light on college football's NIL landscape.

UAB pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the 2025 season with a 31-24 stunner over No. 22 Memphis in interim coach Alex Mortensen’s first game in charge. The Blazers entered the game as 22.5-point ...