Every college football season begins with hope and expectations, but several seasons end with despair and broken dreams. Obviously, that’s subjective, as every program has different definitions of success. On this year’s list of hot seat coaches, there are coaches who had the worst record in college football last season and one who has one of the best records of all time, but they just cannot beat this one team.
The twenty coaches on this list are under varying degrees of heat at this moment. Some just haven’t been able to turn their programs into winners, while others have regressed over time. Some have been there too long, while others were big-time hires who aren’t delivering what their massive contracts warranted.
That’s the life of a coach in any profession.
Here are 20 head coaches on the hot seat entering the 2024 college football season.