The Hot Seat Football Game' title='The Hot Seat Football Game' />College Football Coaches On The Hot Seat After Week 7. After seven weeks of college football, these are the coaches who might be in trouble midway through the season. It has been a few weeks since we visited the college football hot seat landscape. After the craziest weekend of the season thus far, theres no better time to check in with the coaches that have a lot of work to do to salvage their jobs. A few of the coaches that have appeared on this list, like Steve Addazio, Todd Graham, and Kevin Sumlin, have helped themselves out with big wins. Others continue to struggle, and could be on the way out very soon. The college football coaching carousel is a yearround ride these days, but following Sonny Dykes surprise firing at Cal and Justin Wilcoxs hiring, all FBS jobs are. Jim Moras Hot Seat Was Scorching, But Then the Impossible Happened UPDATE. Football in its purest form remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you dont want to fight, its impossible to win. And Morale and attitude are. Check out the Auburn vs. LSU fearless prediction and game preview. Which coaches are on the hottest seat and under the most pressure after Week 10 of the college football season 2017 College Football Hot Seat Rankings Evaluating job security of all 130 coaches From win or be fired to untouchable, every college football coach gets rated. Most coaches on the hot seat speculation includes Butch Jones Tennessee, Barry Odom Missouri, Matt Luke Mississippi, Kevin Sumlin Texas AM, Bret. NFL Coaches Burning On the Hot Seat. November 21, 2017 By Rajan Nanavati. Its the one day of the year that head coaches of underperforming NFL teams dread the. Revisit our last edition of the Hot Seat Rankings here 9. Lovie Smith Illinois. Instagramillinifootball. Rutgers2. 01. 6 3 9 2 7 Big TenCareer 5 1. Big TenIt is only year two for Smith, so he probably wont face real pressure until 2. Illini. Saturday was almost definitely the teams best shot at a third win in 2. Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights are improving under Chris Ash, but are still one of the conferences weakest teams, making an 1. Illinois look pretty rough. Jim Mora UCLA2. Arizona2. Pac 1. Career 4. 4 2. Pac 1. 2Mora opened the season with a signature winthe epic comeback against Texas A Mand has one of the nations most exciting quarterbacks at his disposal, but the team appears to be destined to be a middle of the pack Pac 1. There is a distinct chance that the Bruins miss a bowl for the third straight year, based on the upcoming schedule. David Beaty Kansas. Iowa State2. 01. Big 1. Career 3 2. Big 1. Time marches on for Beaty and the Kansas Jayhawks. This weekend, they met with one of the main peer programs in the Big 1. Iowa State. Unfortunately, Matt Campbell and the Cyclones look to be hitting their stride, beating Oklahoma on the road and blanking the Jayhawks, while Kansas looks doomed to finish with a single win year. Beaty was handed a very difficult job, but can he keep it if he only manages three wins in as many seasonsScottie Montgomery ECUInstagramecupiratesfb. UCF2. 01. 6 3 9 1 7 AACCareer 4 1. AACAfter picking up a narrow win at UConn a few weeks back, ECU has fallen back into the loss column pretty hard. USC, Temple, and UCF each beat the Pirates by an average of 3. This once strong Group of Five program is just not competitive with a number of AAC teams that used to be peers at best. Mike Riley Nebraska. Twitter. 20. 17 3 4 last week 5. Ohio State2. 01. Big TenCareer 1. Nebraska 1. 1 1. Big TenNebraska filled its vacancy at athletic director over the weekend, tabbing Washington States Bill Moos for the job. Odds are that Moos will want to make his own mark on the football program. The poor start to the season for the Huskers, including this weekends blowout loss to Ohio State, make that easier. Riley may not be let go until after the season, but his long term prospects in Lincoln arent good. Brett Bielema Arkansas. TwitterBret. Bielema. Alabama2. 01. 6 7 6 3 5 SECCareer 9. Arkansas 1. 0 2. SECBy year five, Arkansas had to assume that Bielema would have the Razorbacks rolling, like he did Wisconsin half a decade ago. In 2. 01. 7, the best Hogs fans can hope for is that this is yet another slow start that will finish with a big November run to a middling bowl. Even that has to be getting old. With back to back blowout losses and an upcoming trip to what will be a hungry Auburn, things are not getting easier for Bielema. Barry Odom Missouri. Twittercoachodom. Georgia2. 01. 6 4 8 2 6 SECCareer 5 1. SECWith an internal hire like Barry Odom, the hope is that the new head coach can pick up where his predecessor left off and keep momentum going. Gary Pinkel did a fantastic job with Missouri football, especially after the move to the SEC, when the Tigers captured two SEC East crowns. A fall may have been inevitable, but Odoms tenure has seen Mizzou fall all the way to the SECs basement. Tyson Summers Georgia Southern. Instagramgatalifestyle. New Mexico State2. Sun BeltCareer 5 1. Sun BeltThere isnt much more to say about the struggles that Summers has had at GS. The Eagles have failed to pick up a win this season, and while they could pick off a Sun Belt opponent or two down the stretch, expectations are way higher for the former FCS powerhouse. Butch Jones Tennessee Last Week 9Instagramvolfootball. South Carolina2. SECCareer 8. Tennessee 1. 4 2. SECIts really hard to see how Butch Jones bounces back at this point. Tennessee failed to really capitalize on the window it had last year, with a senior star laden team, and has fallen farther than expected in 2. SEC play three games into the conference season. Pair that with his recent lashing out at the media and a deeply unhappy fan base, and Jones has everything stacked against him. Tennessee has Alabama this weekend. Good luck with that, Vols. College football hot seat coaches How safe are these 1. By the midpoint of a college football season, we think we know how a coaching carousel is going to play out. Coach A has won a couple of decent games, so hes safe. Coach B has lost back to back heart breakers hes toast. The teams are still playing, though. And the future is dependent on what happens over the next six weeks. Thanks to S P win projections, we can look into the future a bit. Because some teams do improve late, and because others will collapse, we cant say for certain how things might play out, but we know how things could play out based on how everyone has played so far. Below is a look at each power conference head coach with at least a little bit of heat under his seat. How is his team doing now And how will his team likely fare moving forward Arizonas Rich Rodriguez 4. Current 2. 01. 7 record 4 2. Projected 2. 01. 7 wins 7. Odds of missing bowl 4Before the upset wins over Colorado and UCLA, it appeared Rodriguez would be a goner. But the Wildcats are now very likely to make a bowl, which would be Rodriguez fifth in six seasons. Barring a spectacular collapse, you have to figure he gets another year. Arizona States Todd Graham 4. Current 2. 01. 7 record 3 3. Projected 2. 01. 7 wins 5. Odds of missing bowl 5. Arizona State is a tough job. You make money, and the recruiting draws of sun all year round are obvious, but its hard to keep attention. Winning consistently is hard, and Graham did it for a while, but he lost one too many play makers and one too many good assistants and bombed. But what looked like another lost season has found life after home wins over Oregon and Washington. Graham might be on a path to save himself. Arkansas Bret Bielema 2. Current 2. 01. 7 record 2 4. Projected 2. 01. 7 wins 4. Odds of missing bowl 7. The big news of the last week is that Bielemas buyout is about 5. M, not the previously reported 1. M. We dont believe AD Jeff Long wants to fire Bielema, but if Arkansas misses a bowl, Bielema will likely be 1. SEC play during his tenure. We dont think the expectations at Arkansas should be sky high, but a. SEC play is poor. Auburns Gus Malzahn 4. Current 2. 01. 7 record 5 2. Projected 2. 01. 7 wins 8. Odds of 7 5 or worse 2. Auburn is notoriously unpredictable, and its AD is quite embattled at present, with scandals in softball and basketball. Auburn has shown some improvement this year. An 8 4 finish would likely mean zero wins over ranked teams, but he should still be safe. He has a national championship appearance and a Sugar Bowl appearance in his four full seasons. But lets reserve the right to change our minds if the Tigers get blown out by Georgia and Alabama to end the year. Boston Colleges Steve Addazio 2. Current 2. 01. 7 record 3 4. Projected 2. 01. 7 wins 4. Odds of 4 8 or worse 5. Addazio started out 8 8 in ACC play. Pokemon Zipper Binder. Since then, the Eagles have gone 3 1. Part of that was a lost 2. BC lost its quarterback early, but the trend is not positive. Boston College should not have aspirations to win the Atlantic Division, but it does need to keep an eye on the divisions Syracuse and Wake Forest, who seem to be improving more rapidly than the Eagles. This is a brutal schedule, but if the Eagles really do win just four games, BC might need to make a change. BYUs Kalani Sitake 1. Current 2. 01. 7 record 1 6. Projected 2. 01. 7 wins 3. Odds of 2 1. 0 or worse 2. BYUs independence, plus the requirement that a head coach be of LDS faith, means the pool of available coaches is shallow and that the school probably has no choice but to be patient. Add that to the fact that Sitake went 9 4 in his first season, and its all but guaranteed hell get a third year. And he probably should. But theres a decent chance the Cougars go 3 9 or worse this season. That means we have to at least bring him up here. Floridas Jim Mc. Elwain 2. Current 2. Projected 2. Odds of 5 6 or worse 6. Mc. Elwains magic in close games read luck has run out. He is 5 1. 1 in games in which the opponent has scored more than 1. He was brought in to fix the offense and has shown little improvement over what Will Muschamp had to offer. While he is recruiting well now, his first two classes were poor by Floridas standards, and as a result the talent is not what it has been in better times. Hes had a scandal involving more than 1. And the defense is starting to slip. But he has also won the SEC East in each of his first two years and has a buyout of 1. M, and much of his staff is on multi year deals and would also need to be bought out. Barring something drastic, Mc. Elwain should be safe even if Florida misses a bowl game. But if that happens, he is squarely on the hot seat come 2. Illinois Lovie Smith 5 1. Current 2. 01. 7 record 2 4. Projected 2. 01. 7 wins 3. Odds of 2 1. 0 2. Smith is athletic director Josh Whitmans guy hiring Smith was almost literally the first thing Whitman did as AD. Plus, the Illini havent won more than seven games in a season since the wacky 2. But. they just lost to Rutgers. By 1. 1. At home. Even if hes safe in 2. Kansas David Beaty 3 2. Current 2. 01. 7 record 1 5. Projected 2. 01. 7 wins 1. Odds of 1 1. 1 4. He was a reach of a hire to begin with his biggest draw was being a successful recruiter at Texas A M, but that was never going to translate to Kansas very well and hes on pace to finish with an average record of 1 1. Hes gone. Kentuckys Mark Stoops 2. Current 2. 01. 7 record 5 1. Arial Font Family Rar on this page. Projected 2. 01. 7 wins 7. Odds of 6 6 or worse 3. Kentucky is not as good as its record, most everyone agrees. But the wins still count, and the Wildcats have a 9. That is all anyone should be asking of Kentucky football, and Stoops is providing it. Missouris Barry Odom 5 1. Current 2. 01. 7 record 1 5. Projected 2. 01. 7 wins 3. Odds of 2 1. 0 or worse 1. Youre not going to recruit as well as division mates Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee, and at best you can hope to tie with South Carolina. Gary Pinkel proved you can still win through player development and creative tactics, but it requires patience as new players develop. The bars pretty low for Odom to get a third year, in other words. But if the Tigers lose to Idaho or UConn over the next two weeks, that might be a sign that hes not clearing it. Nebraskas Mike Riley 1. Current 2. 01. 7 record 3 4. Projected 2. 01. 7 wins 4. Odds of missing bowl 7. Nebraska was blown out by a combined 9. Lincoln by Wisconsin and Ohio State. The school fired its athletic director and has already hired a new one. It is generally questionable to fire a coach after just three seasons, but the program has regressed under Riley, a strange hire to begin with. The odds of the new AD wanting to bring in his own guy are quite high, especially since the Huskers are staring a 5 7 finish in the face. Rutgers Chris Ash 4 1. Current 2. 01. 7 record 2 4. Projected 2. 01. 7 wins 3. Odds of 2 1. 0 1. If I am a college coach, and I see Rutgers fired a coach after just two seasons, that tells me Rutgers does not understand what it is and that I should not consider filling that vacancy. Plus, the Scarlet Knights have a decent chance at four wins, a. Ash is probably safe. Tennessees Butch Jones 3. Current 2. 01. 7 record 3 3. Projected 2. 01. 7 wins 5. Odds of missing bowl 4. Jones has done a good job rebuilding the talent base.