Florida hires Louisiana's Billy Napier as new Head Football Coach (11/28/2021) ***EDIT: and fired on 10/19/2025***

[CoolBreeze]

Here is a pre-season list of best coaches:

2025 College Football Head Coach Rankings: Top 25 Coaches - College Football News | College Football Predictions, Analysis and Updates

Who are the elite of the elite coaches going into the 2025 season? Here's our choice for the preseason top 25 college football coaches.

collegefootballnews.com

 

[bamajas]

With State Penn and the Gators jobs opening up, who the heck do these programs think they are going to get? I mean, proven winners. Think they can snipe Lanning from duck money or something like that? Take a chance on the Indiana coach? Lane is not your answer for sure so I am just wondering the strategy of where to find the best coach for their programs.

Using the list you just posted, 5 of the top 7 had no HC experience when they were hired

Results seem to suggest identifying specific characteristics and values over purely experience and outcomes.

Can you find the NEXT Lanning, Day, Freeman, etc.? And that's probably even harder than the questions you're asking

 

[92tide]

Kiffin wins to win something first, IMO, before going to Florida.

that hasn’t really stopped florida recently 😎

 

[BhamToTexas]

Here is a pre-season list of best coaches:

2025 College Football Head Coach Rankings: Top 25 Coaches - College Football News | College Football Predictions, Analysis and Updates

Who are the elite of the elite coaches going into the 2025 season? Here's our choice for the preseason top 25 college football coaches.

collegefootballnews.com

Oof, what a terrible ranking.

 

[tusks_n_raider]

Oof, what a terrible ranking.

For real…lol

It was already bad pre-season and looks even worse now.

A lot HCs way too high and others too low.

 

[BearFoot]

Here is a pre-season list of best coaches:

2025 College Football Head Coach Rankings: Top 25 Coaches - College Football News | College Football Predictions, Analysis and Updates

Who are the elite of the elite coaches going into the 2025 season? Here's our choice for the preseason top 25 college football coaches.

collegefootballnews.com

I sat down after a hard day’s work and started reading that list…..and spewed beer out my nose!!!

Then I called out to my wife and said,” CLEAN-UP ON ISLE SEVEN”

 

[colbysullivan]

For real…lol

It was already bad pre-season and looks even worse now.

A lot HCs way too high and others too low.

Belichick at 16 lol

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

Franklin at 9...based on what?

 

[Padreruf]

Proof that any idiot with a computer can share their unfounded opinions. Not worth the 1 minute of my life...

 

[CB4]

Might just be rumors but it’s going around that Florida is making moves behind the scenes to Can Billy by the end of this week.

Other sites are speculating on it anyway and articles are being written.

I know this name gets thrown around every time there is a big job opening but sounds like Kiffin is high on the list of names for a replacement.

I heard his name come up last week in relation to the Florida job. My understanding is, when Billy gets canned (it’s not “if” any longer) the first person that Stricklin will target is Lane.

 

[AlexanderFan]

Won’t be Cignetti, Indiana just became a football school 😂

 

[CoolBreeze]

Here is a preseason best coaches list from ESPN from May of this year

Who are the best coaches in college football? We rank the top 10

Kirby Smart has to be No. 1, or does he? What about Ryan Day? Or Marcus Freeman? Who made our list -- and why.

www.espn.com

...and 247 from January

Ranking college football's top 25 coaches as focus shifts to 2025 season

These college football coaches could do big things next season.

247sports.com

 

[Bazza]

 

[TideMan09]

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Oh hellll Gainesville isn't ready for Joey Freshwater..😁😁

 

[selmaborntidefan]

'It's over' for $51 million college football coach amid firing rumors: Insider

Despite a win over Mississippi State, Florida could still fire Billy Napier in the coming days ahead of the Gators' bye week. On3's Pete Nakos reported that sources say "it's over" for Napier with the bigger question being the timing of Florida making a change.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

'It's over' for $51 million college football coach amid firing rumors: Insider

Despite a win over Mississippi State, Florida could still fire Billy Napier in the coming days ahead of the Gators' bye week. On3's Pete Nakos reported that sources say "it's over" for Napier with the bigger question being the timing of Florida making a change.

It would be hilarious if they don't fire him and he beats uga then loses the rest

 

[81usaf92]

To me Napier and norvell are basically the same kind of hires in that you had major programs jump on a G5 coach that was winning at a high rate but never considered the competition and the advantages of that program compared to their peers.

I think we will see more Kiffin and Elko career paths and less of the Norvell and Napier ones going forward

 

[AlistarWills]

He gone

 

[RammerJammer14]

Billy’s press interview after beating MSU honestly sounded like a man saying goodbye to his family as they gathered around his deathbed.

 

[editder]

Can’t say he didn’t get a fair shot. If you don’t produce results by the 4th year it ain’t happening.