Hot Seat Watch, Week 7: Winners and losers

Week 7 was an absolute disaster for four coaches on the hot seat. One lucky coach managed to take themselves off entirely.

Chaos is a ladder and Week 7 of the college football season demonstrated that perfectly. A weekend that no one saw coming has completely flipped the college football landscape upside down. For one coach on the hot seat, his job is as safe as it gets for now.

For the other coaches in need of a win this week, it went about as horrible as possible. With Week 8 around the corner, the time to make things right and get the season rolling is all but over as time is running out fast.

There is a very real chance that some of the coaches on the hot seat might not even end up making it to next week. This was a week where a last stand was put up by one, but for four others it was the beginning of the end. Here are the winners and losers from Week 7.

Loser – Mike Riley

This was never going to be easy but Mike Riley’s chances of keeping his job went out the window these last two weeks. It was always going to be an uphill climb with Wisconsin and Ohio State in town consecutive weeks, but that’s the way the schedule was drawn up.

Instead, the Cornhuskers got rolled over and let the Buckeyes have their way with them. When a team officially rolls over, it’s a sign that it is near time to make a move and change in the head coaching department.

It really just depends now on whether or not Nebraska wants to wait until after the season or make a move now and let an interim finish out the year. Whatever the case may be, it was a bad week for Mike Riley.