College football hot seat: 5 coaches who could be fired in 2026

Published by The Comeback on August 29, 2026 at 8:05 AM ET

The 2025 college football season produced a historic coaching carousel, with 15 FBS head coaches fired without cause and creating a combined buyout price tag of roughly $270 million. From James Franklin at Penn State to Brian Kelly at LSU (with a staggering $54 million buyout), schools threw record-setting sums at the problem of removing…

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