College Football

Source: Tulsa expected to dismiss coach Blankenship after ECU game

Updated Mar. 5, 2020 1:33 a.m. ET

Bruce Feldman

Tulsa is expected to dismiss head coach Bill Blankenship this weekend, a source told FOX Sports.

The 57-year-old Blankenship, an old Tulsa quarterback, won 19 games in his first two seasons in charge of the Golden Hurricane, but is just 5-18 the past two years. Tulsa has lost nine of the last 10 games and rank 118th in scoring and 97th in defense.

Blankenship will coach his final game for the school Friday night when the Hurricane host East Carolina.

The school's coaching search will begin this coming week.

Bruce Feldman is a senior college football reporter and columnist for FOXSports.com and FOX Sports 1. He is also a New York Times Bestselling author. His new book, The QB: The Making of Modern Quarterbacks, came out in October, 2014. Follow him on Twitter @BruceFeldmanCFB.