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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/ogsmurf826 on 2025-10-21 21:00:01+00:00.

Seen a lot of people asking have this many coaches ever been fired this early in a season before and decided to put together a quick table of it. Used the Wikipedia page for FBS seasons and it “Coaching Changes” section. It only tracks back to the 2010 season. I’ll update the table as these next two week have the potential for more. This is for all FBS coaches, not just P4/P5 coaches, for guys where the administration actively removed them. So this tracks guys listed as “Fired” and “Agreed To Part Ways” (aka getting fired with extra steps).

  • This season has the records for most coaches fired in September, before October, in October, & before November. So yeah this is not normal.

  • College football doesn’t have an exact Black Monday like the NFL but a lot of coaches do not have a fun Thanksgiving weekend.

  • The 2015 Season has an all timer by Illinois. Fired HC Tim Beckman on Aug 28th (investigation found some medical malpractice w/ players) and their first game was on Sept 5th. OC Bill Cubit was elevated to interim. Nov 28th hours before the season finale they give him a 2-year deal and remove the interim title. A new AD is officially hired the morning of March 5th and fired Cubit before noon.

  • The most off-season-ish firings ever are 2011 Bobby Petrino at Arkansas, 2016 Art Briles at Baylor, & 2024 Kenni Burns at Kent State. No other firings occurred further away from the first game or last game of a season at them happening 90-95 days from the start/finish of seasons.

**I have no idea how this table will look before publishing, hopefully it works out.*

Season 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Summer 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Sept 1 - Sept 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2
Sept 16 - Sept 30 0 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 2
Oct 1 - Oct 15 0 1 0 1 1 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 3
Oct 16 - Oct 31 2 0 1 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 0 3 2 0 3 2
Nov 1 - Nov 15 1 1 1 1 0 2 1 1 2 2 1 3 1 3 1 0
Nov 16 - Nov 30 5 8 10 0 1 5 5 7 9 1 1 8 5 6 7 0
Dec 1 - Dec 15 1 3 2 2 3 1 0 1 1 4 5 2 2 1 4 0
Dec 16 - Dec 31 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jan 1 - Jan 15 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Jan 16 - Jan 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
February 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spring 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0
Total 12 16 14 8 6 14 14 13 15 9 10 18 15 12 18 9