USA Today: USC’s Lincoln Riley among 10 CFB coaches with the hottest hot seat

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Posted on August 21, 2024

By Scooby Axson, USA TODAY: It’s that time of the year again. Before every football season, administrators and fans alike start sweating for different reasons.

Administrators’ headaches come from a delicate balancing act of maintaining the athletic budget and hoping the football coach doesn’t fall flat on his face so that when the holiday season rolls around, said coach will be celebrating with a buyout. As demanding and skeptical as they are, fans will have many people to blame if their team doesn’t make the 12-team playoff.

Last year’s list featured five coaches being dismissed for various reasons, including the two biggest salary bandits, Jimbo Fisher of Texas A&M and Michigan State’s Mel Tucker. Those that survived the purge include Neal Brown, Butch Jones, and Eli Drinkwitz, but the pink slips brigade waits for no one.

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