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The 10 college football coaches who start the season on the hot seat

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian went 5-7 during his first season with the Longhorns.

Another college football campaign is on the horizon, and like clockwork, pessimistic fan bases all over the country are worried if their coach will be around at season’s end.

Boosters are at the ready with buyout checks worth millions and have no issues in playing a part to ensure a coach gets dismissed who isn’t meeting expectations on or off the field.

When identifying those coaches most in jeopardy, four on the list below actually made bowl games (each of them lost as well) in 2021, which would be good enough in 85% of Division I schools. But, not all of the coaches will receive that dreaded pink slip because there is bound to be a surprise team capable of at least reaching bowl eligibility or even competing for a conference title.

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Here’s a look at 10 coaches with the hottest of hot seats entering next season.

Steve Sarkisian, Texas

For all the optimism among Texas faithful every single season, the Longhorns continue to disappoint and finally hit rock bottom after a 5-7 season, which included an overtime loss to Kansas. Armed with a top-notch recruiting class and Ohio State transfer quarterback Quinn Ewers named the starting quarterback, there are no excuses now for Sarkisian. The measuring stick will come swiftly when Alabama pays a visit on Sept. 10.  If things don’t change in a hurry, Texas will be back … to firing coaches and starting over once again.

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian went 5-7 during his first season with the Longhorns.

Scott Frost, Nebraska

Most coaches who have four consecutive losing seasons at a once-proud university would be fired. Frost is still in Lincoln and brings a 15-29 record with the Cornhuskers into the 2022 campaign. It’s obviously a now or never season for Frost and he made wholesale changes, especially getting rid of nearly the entire offensive coaching staff. He will have experience at the quarterback position in Texas transfer Casey Thompson, who led the Big 12 in touchdown passes. But Frost will have to win some of the close games that were losses last year to keep his job.

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Bryan Harsin, Auburn

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