The 2025 season could be a referendum on many coaches.
As there wasn’t much coaching turnover in the power conferences after the 2024 season, numerous coaches enter this season needing their teams to have strong performances. Not all of the coaches on the list below could be in immediate danger of losing their jobs. Heck, we have one first-year coach on the list. But here are 10 coaches who could really use great seasons.
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Bill Belichick, North Carolina
This is no ordinary debut season for the former New England Patriots coach. Not only is Belichick the head coach of a college football team for the first time, it’s his first college coaching job period. The six-time Super Bowl winner got his start as an assistant with the Baltimore Colts, though his father famously coached at Navy when Belichick was growing up.
How much of a learning curve will there be for Belichick in his first season? And will he find that he likes the college game just as much as he loved coaching in the NFL? North Carolina hasn’t won an ACC football title since 1980 and hiring Belichick to replace Mack Brown was a move for short-term success. Simply going 6-6 and making a bowl game wasn’t enough for Brown to keep his job after the 2024 season.
Kalen DeBoer, Alabama
DeBoer got the job of a lifetime when Nick Saban retired. But that job also came with incredibly high expectations. The Tide were 9-4 in 2024. That’s a great season for a lot of college football teams. But it was the first time Alabama didn’t win 10 or more games since Saban’s first season in 2007.
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Alabama missed out on double-digit wins with an ugly 19-13 loss to Michigan in the ReliaQuest Bowl. The Tide can’t blame a mass of opt-outs for that loss either.
Simply being in playoff contention again in 2025 isn’t good enough in Tuscaloosa. Alabama…
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Author : Nick Bromberg
Publish date : 2025-07-24 13:00:00
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