College football coaching hot seat for 2025 season

Projecting the best records for the top college football conferences

USA TODAY Sports’ Paul Myerberg breaks down who he thinks will win the in each of the Power Four conferences and the Group of Five.

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Approximately 25-30 coaching changes are anticipated this winter, following a trend of high turnover in recent years.Several SEC coaches, including Hugh Freeze (Auburn), Sam Pittman (Arkansas), and Brent Venables (Oklahoma), are facing high-pressure seasons in 2025.Other coaches on the hot seat include Brent Pry (Virginia Tech), Scott Satterfield (Cincinnati), Mike Gundy (Oklahoma State), Brent Brennan (Arizona), Trent Dilfer (UAB), Sonny Cumbie (Louisiana Tech)

Marcus Freeman’s seat at Notre Dame is an ice-cold tundra. The temperature of Clemson coach Dabo Swinney’s seat sits at absolute zero. Likewise with Georgia’s Kirby Smart, Indiana’s Curt Cignetti and Colorado’s Deion Sanders, among a few others.

On the other end of the thermometer are the Bowl Subdivision coaches in college football facing sweltering scrutiny and increasingly high stakes heading into make-or-break 2025 seasons.

Recent history suggests somewhere between 25 and 30 programs will making a coaching change this winter, many triggered by the initial burst of moves in the days following the end of the regular season. Sixty-one programs have changed coaches in the past two cycles, representing roughly 45% of the FBS

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Let’s go down the list of college football’s hottest seats, starting with a threesome of SEC head coaches nearing win-or-go-home territory:

Hugh Freeze, Auburn

The results simply haven’t been there through two seasons, ratcheting up the pressure on Freeze to justify the hype and applause that greeted his return to the SEC after a successful run at Liberty….

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Publish date : 2025-08-25 10:01:00

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