Mark WiedmerSecond-year University of Tennessee football coach Jeremy Pruitt is on the hot seat?
As tennis star John McEnroe once uttered, “You can’t be serious.”
Yet there was Pruitt’s name on CBS Sports’ website annual preseason “hot seat” list, which actually ranked him as barely warm, giving him a “2” where a “5” is considered scalding. Or as CBS labels a 5, “win or be fired.”
But it’s also true that every Southeastern Conference football coach other than Georgia’s Kirby Smart and Alabama’s Nick Saban is one bad season removed from angry alums.
So to help this argument along, yours truly has decided to use his own 1-to-5 ranking, along with the games all 14 SEC coaches most need to win their fans happy. In order from hottest to coolest: