The Big 12 is an unpredictable roller coaster where the teams you may expect to be the top contenders fall off the map while the predicted bottom-dwellers can take home the conference crown. In this erratic environment, having a consistent and reliable leader for your program is the key to navigating the choppy waters of college football’s most top-to-bottom competitive league. With only two jobs turning over, both to coaches returning home after tours elsewhere, that consistency sets up for a supremely entertaining season as these coaches look to bring their teams to the league mountaintop. The Big 12 is filled head coaches with experience, recruiting prowess, and big personalities. Given the ever-shifting winds of the league, this listing is sure to look starkly different by season’s end, but where do they stack up against each other headed into the 2025 season?
TIER 7 – Step Up or Step Out
The search firms are salivating. These are the hottest seats in the league, another disappointing campaign could have these schools on the hunt for a new coach again. While it only takes one season to turn around the fortunes of a program in the Big 12 and the league doesn’t feature the nation’s most vulnerable staffs, these coaches have little margin for error
Scott Satterfield, Cincinnati Bearcats – It’s a hard life being the guy after The Guy, especially when making a major leap in competition. Luke Fickell led the Bearcats to consecutive NY6 appearances, including a bid to the 4-team College Football Playoff in 2021. When he bolted for the Big Ten, Satterfield was brought over from a floundering tenure at Louisville. In two seasons in the Big 12 the Bearcats have won just 4 conference games, missing a bowl in consecutive seasons for the first time since 2016-17. Cincinnati has gone three decades without …
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