The 2025 CFB Coach Firing and Retirement Confidence Ranking

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.9 • 916 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Around 20 FBS coaches will retire or get fired by the end of this season, but which ones will they be? Alex and Richard pick out 23 names and rank them from least to most likely to be entering their last season on the job. Then we talk about the context, especially in the handful of cases with big differences in our rankings. Plus, everyone gets buyer’s remorse at least once.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	We're coming, and we ain't backing down.
0:01.9	We don't need a bunch of cats in here.
0:03.4	Looking in the mirror.
0:04.5	Everybody just do your job.
0:06.7	You understand that?
0:07.7	Hey, will you shut up?
0:08.6	I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today.
0:11.1	Guys being dudes.
0:12.3	And they run through our like a shit through a ten horn, man.
0:16.2	Thank you, Lee.
0:17.3	It's Split Zone Duo.
0:18.5	I'm Alex Kirchner, joined by my co-host, Richard Johnson.
0:21.9	Richard, how are you? Doing well. Getting ready to cruise running in the fourth.
0:26.5	I have a question. How many hot dogs do you think you've eaten in your lifetime?
0:32.5	Oh, aggregate number of hot dogs. Okay. I would say I probably eat hot dogs. Okay. Um, I would say I probably eat hot dogs four to five times a year
0:43.7	in adulthood. I think that's a reasonable estimate, but probably two per. Right, right. No,
0:49.4	I'll throw three down. Oh, I'm a glizzy goon. I'll throw three down in a sitting. Now,
0:55.9	when I was younger, I actually ate a lot
0:57.9	more hot dogs just because I
0:59.8	like it was very like
1:01.7	cheap and easy like
1:03.4	crappy college dinner
	...

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