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College Football: Six Head Coaches on the Hot Seat

By Eric Robinson

LUBBOCK, TX - NOVEMBER 14: Head coach Kliff Kingsbury of the Texas Tech Red Raiders before the game between the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Kansas State Wildcats on November 14, 2015 at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. Texas Tech won the game 59-44. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images)
LUBBOCK, TX - NOVEMBER 14: Head coach Kliff Kingsbury of the Texas Tech Red Raiders before the game between the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Kansas State Wildcats on November 14, 2015 at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. Texas Tech won the game 59-44. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images) /
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NASHVILLE, TN – SEPTEMBER 13: Head coach Derek Mason of the Vanderbilt Commodores coaches against the University of Massachusetts Minutemen at Vanderbilt Stadium on September 13, 2014 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Frederick Breedon/Getty Images)
NASHVILLE, TN – SEPTEMBER 13: Head coach Derek Mason of the Vanderbilt Commodores coaches against the University of Massachusetts Minutemen at Vanderbilt Stadium on September 13, 2014 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Frederick Breedon/Getty Images) /

Derek Mason, Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt finds themselves in arguably the toughest conference in all of football. So their fight for respectability goes all the way back to 1933.

Under Mason, the Commodores have had under .500 records in each of the four seasons at the helm. Composing an 18-31 regular season record and a 0-1 bowl record is all that Mason can hang his hat on at this point.

So it doesn’t help Mason much that Georgia is reloaded after a trip to the National Championship this past season, South Carolina is a dark horse team to be a legitimate threat in the SEC East, and Florida recently hired an underrated coach in Dan Mullen.

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Vanderbilt has taken baby steps under Mason since he took over. It is bowl game or bust for Mason in year five, and in a gauntlet of a conference that is the SEC, even that may be a hard pill to swallow for the young head coach.

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