Toasty Buns: What college football head coaches are feeling the heat ahead of Week 8?

Now in the second half of the year, these college football coaches’ buns are getting real toasty.

Despite there being five Power Five openings across college football, it would come as quite the shock if that is it for this season’s coaching turnover harvest.

While Arizona State, Colorado, Georgia Tech, Nebraska and Wisconsin have all gotten head starts on their head-coaching searches, other Power Five programs are dragging their feet a bit. We all know that more jobs will open up by around Thanksgiving because the coaching carousel will keep on turning. That wheel in the sky has us on a journey to the end for many of these college coaches.

As the weather starts to turn, whose seats are heating up under less-than-ideal circumstances?

College football hot seat watch: Which coaches are feeling the heat the most?

A narrow home win over Baylor takes the heat off Neal Brown … for a moment

West Virginia’s 43-40 home win over Baylor last Thursday night did Neal Brown a world of good. This got him his first Big 12 win of the season. While the Mountaineers are probably going to have to go 3-3 the rest of the way in conference play for him to keep his job, that win over Baylor does breathe life into the idea that this may not be Brown’s final season in Morgantown after all. There is hope.

Unfortunately, the ‘Eers still have three ranked conference foes on their schedule (TCU, Kansas State and at Oklahoma State). While Matt Campbell might be packing his bags for Lincoln already, Saturday afternoon’s game in Lubbock could be the most important game of Brown’s WVU career. A road victory over Texas Tech gets him above .500 with five more shots to win two more games.

Should WVU fall in Lubbock to be 3-4, the odds are not in Brown’s favor to be returning next year.