The 2025-26 college football coaching cycle should be the busiest on record. On consecutive Sundays over the last month we've seen Penn State, Florida, LSU and Auburn fire their coaches, joining an ever-expanding list of 12 FBS jobs that have opened. We had never seen such activity before November. It does not figure to slow down: industry sources expect close to 40 FBS jobs to change hands this cycle once the dominoes begin to fall.

Who is supposed to fill all these jobs?

You'll see names like Nick Saban and Urban Meyer bandied about as possibilities online, maybe even linking them to a plane tracker or two. Those are romantic names for LSU (Saban) and Florida (Meyer), especially. But they do not seem realistic. That is OK -- there are close to 100 names to consider for the giant va

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