Which candidates are warm, hot or cold to replace James Franklin at Penn State?

This year’s college football coaching cycle is simply going to be wild.

Penn State , Florida and LSU ( thanks to Brian Kelly’s firing Sunday ) have already opened. Those are all easily top-10 or 20 jobs nationally. Virginia Tech, UCLA, Arkansas and Oklahoma State are among others open at the Power Four level.

More appealing jobs should open by year’s end, too. Looking at you, Auburn.

When Penn State fired James Franklin, it seemed as though the Nittany Lions would have their pick of the litter as the top available job on the market. That’s arguably no longer the case, especially with LSU open. And that will impact Penn State’s chances to reel in plenty of big fish.

After dropping a list of eight candidates who made sense last week , we’ll take the temperature on a huge pool of cand