Skip to main content
Wednesday, November 11, 2026Nov 11
Subscribe
All Sections
Search
More

How does each current SEC football coach rate in job security?

AP file photo by Michael Woods / Sam Pittman is in his fourth season as head coach at Arkansas, and the Razorbacks are just 1-6 in SEC play this year.
AP file photo by Michael Woods / Sam Pittman is in his fourth season as head coach at Arkansas, and the Razorbacks are just 1-6 in SEC play this year. AP file photo by Michael Woods / Sam Pittman is in his fourth season as head coach at Arkansas, and the Razorbacks are just 1-6 in SEC play this year.

By JOHN ZENOR / The Associated Press 6 min read

Welcome to life in Southeastern Conference football, where you can coach against each other one day and be fired the next. Or the day after that.

Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher and Mississippi State’s Zach Arnett are the SEC’s first head coaches to lose their jobs this season, but there is no guarantee they will be the last.

No matter the cost.

Even Fisher’s guaranteed money was no guarantee he would keep his job in College Station. Fisher walks away with more than $75 million as a buyout, a cool $1 million-plus for every game he has coached the Aggies.

Arnett gets a fraction of that from his four-year, $12 million deal. Fisher was fired Sunday, a day after his Aggies’ 51-10 win to improve to 6-4 overall and 3-4 in SEC play this season, and Arnett was ousted on Monday after coaching just 11 games. The Bulldogs are 4-6, 1-6 this season; Arnett took over in Starkville last December after the death of Mike Leach.