The college football coaching carousel is slowing to a halt as the offseason continues, and the SEC’s 14 programs have just about settled on their coaching staffs for next season. Some staffs remained relatively in-tact, while others endured a complete overhaul since the end of the regular season.

With much of the coaching-swap chaos behind us, let’s catch our collective breath and recount the 10 most interesting coaching moves throughout the SEC so far this offseason.

1. Jim McElwain to Florida

The Gators pursuit of McElwain to be their next head coach evolved from a simple coaching search into a full-blown soap opera in a matter of days. The process was stunningly transparent, as flights from Gainesville to McElwain’s home in Colorado were tracked by the public, and negotiations regarding McElwain’s $7.5 million buyout from Colorado State were kept far from a secret. Florida eventually got its man, resolving the SEC’s lone head coaching search this offseason with a hire considered popular among the fan base.

2. John Chavis to Texas A&M

Just days removed from LSU’s loss to Notre Dame in the Music City Bowl, Chavis stepped down from his position as the defensive coordinator of the Tigers and accepted the same job at Texas A&M within the week. Many of his former players at LSU expressed their displeasure with the school’s inability to retain Chavis, and three starting underclassmen have already declared for the NFL Draft as a result. The Aggies have already begun building a defense that can match their explosive offense, while LSU is still trying to regroup in Baton Rouge.

3. Will Muschamp to Auburn

Upon being fired as the head coach at Florida, Muschamp was one of the most coveted coordinator candidates in the nation at the start of the offseason. Rumors ran rampant as to where Muschamp might land and who might out-bid the rest of the competition for his services, and eventually news broke that the Auburn Tigers had won the Muschamp sweepstakes. Many see the combination of Muschamp’s defensive prowess and Gus Malzahn’s offensive genius as the foundation for a powerhouse program for years to come, making the Muschamp hire at AU as pivotal as any in the SEC this season.

4. Geoff Collins to Florida

After leading Mississippi State to become the nation’s No. 1 red zone defense, Collins left MSU to take the same job on McElwain’s new staff at the University of Florida. Bulldogs head coach Dan Mullen called the move a lateral one, insinuating a coordinator position at Florida is no better than one at Mississippi State. This, of course, made waves throughout the conference, and MSU allowed Georgia Tech to rush for more than 400 yards in the Orange Bowl without Collins on the sidelines. Whether it was a lateral move or not, it was a move that seemed to rattle the MSU program, although the Bulldogs seem to have since resolved their issues at DC. (We’ll get to that in a moment.)

5. Doug Nussmeier to Florida

Nussmeier’s hiring at Florida didn’t make as much of an impact throughout the SEC as the hires of McElwain and Collins, but it was significant nonetheless. The move also lacks the widespread popularity throughout the Florida fan base that the other hires claimed, due in large part to the struggles Nussmeier’s offense endured at Michigan last season. The former Alabama OC led Michigan to the nation’s 115th-ranked offense in his lone season in Ann Arbor, and now takes over a Florida offense that ranked 96th in the FBS this season and 115th in 2013.

6. Manny Diaz to Mississippi State

Diaz served as Mississippi State’s defensive coordinator just five years ago, and after stops as the DC at Texas and Louisiana Tech in the years since, he’s now back in charge of the Bulldogs defense once again. The move is interesting because there are plenty of positives and negatives to be considered. Mullen trusts Diaz, who has already served one stint on his coaching staff, and Diaz is familiar with the program and the nearby recruiting territories. However, he also struggled in three seasons as the DC at Texas from 2011-13, and he’ll have the tough task of replacing a number of veterans on MSU’s defense in 2015.

7. Randy Shannon to Florida

Shannon’s move from Arkansas to Florida is interesting due to his previous stint as the head coach at the University of Miami in the mid-2000s. Shannon is a brilliant recruiter who has a strong familiarity with the state of Florida, and those traits should pay major dividends on McElwain’s staff. It’s rare that the hiring of a new linebackers coach is considered significant, but Shannon may be one of the most valuable non-coordinators in the conference due to his recruiting prowess and knowledge of the Sunshine State.

8. Shannon Dawson to Kentucky

Dawson took over as the new OC at Kentucky when Neal Brown took the head coaching job at Troy, ensuring the Wildcats will continue to operate an Air Raid offense in the coming years. The move is interesting because Dawson and Brown are both disciples of the same Hal Mumme-coached Air Raid system, giving UK the chance to make a relatively seamless transition between coordinators. Dawson was overshadowed in his previous job as the OC at West Virginia, where head coach Dana Holgorsen was the primary play-caller. Now he has a chance to show what he’s made of as a coordinator for one of the SEC’s least-accomplished programs.

9. Andy Ludwig to Vanderbilt

The marriage between Ludwig and the Commodores is a fascinating move for both sides. Vanderbilt gets an experienced offensive coordinator who has coached a number of different styles of offense, while Ludwig arrives at a program with more questions than answers on a talent-depleted offense. Ludwig left his job as the OC at Wisconsin, an emerging power in the Big Ten, to take on the same role at the least successful program in the SEC. Both sides have plenty to gain and little to lose, and it will be fascinating to see what approach Vandy takes on offense in 2015.

10. Dave Christensen to Texas A&M

Christensen agreed to a relative demotion by taking the offensive line coach and run coordinator positions at Texas A&M. He was previously serving as the offensive coordinator at Utah, a Pac 12 school that spent a stretch of the 2014 season ranked in the top 25 in the national polls, but he stepped down in order to take over the run game of the SEC’s most pass-happy offense. Perhaps he took the job with promises of a new dedication to the run in College Station, but regardless of Christensen’s motivations the Aggies got a gem of a coordinator to serve as a position coach going forward.

Honorable mentions: Barry Odom to Missouri, Andy Buh to Arkansas