Another week, and another top college football coach has just become unemployed.

Auburn head football coach Hugh Freeze was the latest major college coach to be sent to the showers before the 2025 football season even ends. 

The third-year coach for the War Eagles was booed out of the stadium as Auburn lost an embarrassing 10-3 game to the equally offensively inept 3-6 Kentucky Wildcats.

Auburn (now 4-5) dropped its fourth game in five starts.

Just how bad are the Kentucky and Auburn offenses in 2025?

This week’s SwampSwamiSports.com #1 ranked team at Indiana scores more points per game (46) than both Auburn and Kentucky combined (22 apiece).  Saturday night’s epic offensive struggle between these two sloth-like offenses produced a total of just 13 points.

These two putrid offenses generated just 240 yards apiece while playing football in perfect fall weather conditions in eastern Alabama Saturday night.

Unfortunately for Auburn coach Hugh Freeze, Kentucky’s ten points were quite sufficient to win this game.  Many of the 88,000 witnesses in Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium were chanting for their coach’s head before and after the end of Saturday’s 10-3 loss to Kentucky.

Sunday brought the requested action at Auburn University.

Coach Hugh Freeze will be due nearly $16 million as he became the 11th major college football coach fired this fall.  That’s a new record and represents 8% of the 136 FBS college football coaches.

Auburn’s last winning record (6-5) came during the 2020 COVID-19 season.

Former Auburn coach Gus Malzahn was fired after that 2020 season even though his teams posted a winning record in each of his eight years – including the 2013 national championship.  Malzahn was due $20 million for the early termination of his contract after the 2020 season.

Auburn’s next coach (Bryan Harsin) was also fired after two straight losing seasons in 2021 and 2022.  Harsin’s contract buyout provisions called for more than $15 million to be paid after his dismissal.

Now, it’s coach Hugh Freeze being fired in Year #3 after going 6-7 in 2023, 5-7 in 2024, and only 4-5 in 2025. 

This adds another $16 million to Auburn’s expanding coaching IOU’s.

The total cost of the Auburn’s last three football coaching changes ($46 million) is still cheaper than the $54 million which LSU owes to recently-departed head football coach Brian Kelly.

A trip to Fort Knox will be needed for Kentucky to get rid of its football coach

Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops is breathing a sigh of relief after his 3-6 team left Auburn with a win Saturday night.

He isn’t the most popular guy in the Bluegrass State over the past two years.  The teams coached by Mark Stoops (in his 13th season in Lexington) often struggle on the offensive side of the ball.  The Wildcats posted a woeful 4-8 record in 2024.  They are on track for a repeat performance this season.

If Kentucky fans want to send their football coach packing soon, think twice!

Coach Mark Stoops and his agent deserve an “A+” for contract negotiation skills.

The coach’s contract calls for a whopping $38 million – to be paid in full within 60 days – if Mark Stoops is terminated this season.

The six unbeaten FBS teams were trimmed to a quartet this weekend

Navy’s surprising 7-0 start came to an abrupt ending on Saturday as North Texas (now 8-1) sunk the Midshipmen’s College Football Playoff battleship 31-17 in Denton, Texas.

Georgia Tech’s Rambling Wreck blew a tire in Raleigh, North Carolina on Saturday night.  North Carolina State scored early and often to end Georgia Tech’s 8-0 start with a surprisingly easy 48-36 victory over the stinger-less Yellow Jackets.

The first loss of the season by Navy and Georgia Tech leaves Indiana, BYU, Ohio State, and Texas A&M as only unbeaten teams remaining within the 136-team major college (BCS) group.

Meanwhile, two teams are vying for “Worst team in the BCS in 2025”

The Bearkats of Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, Texas) and the Minutemen of the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) are both 0-8 this season.

Sam Houston became the “Trick” at Louisiana Tech’s Trick-or-Treat Halloween Homecoming game Friday night in Ruston. The 5-3 Bulldogs shellacked Sam Houston 55-14 to extend the Bearkats misery to eight straight losses in 2025.

U-Mass will play its ninth game of the year on Tuesday night as the Minutemen march into Akron, Ohio to play the oddly named 3-6 Akron Zips.

Akron’s unusual nickname has been around nearly 100 years. A brand of popular rubber overshoes (called “Zippers”) were being manufactured locally by B.F. Goodrich during the 1920’s. A 1927 student-led “name the team” contest ultimately resulted in the team’s current nickname.

Their Tuesday night opponent would like to borrow some of Akron’s zip.  The U-Mass Minutemen are averaging just 11.5 points per game (worst in the FBS) through its first eight games.

Let’s welcome six new teams to the SwampSwamiSports.com College Football Top 25 for the week ending Saturday, November 1, 2025!

A group of 7-2 teams (Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan, Utah, Western Kentucky, and Pitt) won their games over the weekend.  They replace Cincinnati, Miami (FL), UNLV, Tulane, South Florida, and Nebraska in this week’s rankings.

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