There is little doubt throughout the coaching industry from administrators, agents, and college football coaches themselves that the 2025 coaching cycle is setting up to be unprecedented. There are already nine open jobs, including seven that have opened midseason, and more are expected to pop soon.

You rarely get more than a couple changes before Halloween in a normal year. This is the first year since the FBS era began in 1978 that seven or more jobs have opened before November, according to CBS Sports researchers. Last year saw 30 jobs change, but only five Power Four jobs among them.

This cycle will be similar to 2021, when LSU and USC fired coaches early in the cycle -- leading to serious downstream effects. We've already seen one of college football's bluest of blue bloods open

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