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:
