Mike Farrell lists his Coaching Hot Seat top 5

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Preston Guy
@PGuy_77

Mike Farrell’s coaching hot seat (one of these things is not like the others):

#1 Jimbo Fisher (5-7)
#2 Billy Napier (6-7)
#3 Brian Kelly (10-4 SEC West Champs)
#4 Mario Cristobal (5-7)
#5 Mel Tucker (5-7)

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LSU's pre-season ranking is 5th in the AP Top 25, and the bottom line is that they are not a top-five team. There is no doubt about that.

The Tigers open the season on September 3 in Orlando against Florida State. They lost to the Seminoles last season due to a botched extra point at the end of the game. They will lose to Florida State again, and they will fall from their perch. The only question is how far they drop.

LSU has it pretty easy for the first half of the season, despite playing a South Eastern Conference schedule. Losses to Auburn and Florida at home will take the team from the Bayou out of the SEC and playoff pictures. Not-So-Big-Game Brian Kelly will fail once again to win the big games that exclude him from coaching in the bigger games.

The Tigers went 10-4 last season and lost some big games down the stretch that could have kept them out of the playoff hunt. They lost conference games to Tennessee, Texas A&M, who was a hot mess last season and got blown out by Georgia in the SEC title game.

Kelly, who resigned from Notre Dame after the 2021 season to coach the LSU Tigers, essentially won nothing at Notre Dame except for the right to get blown away by Alabama in the Orange Bowl for the National Championship. Don't look for big things out of Kelly this season either, as the Tigers will win some games but will drop significantly in the rankings and not play for anything meaningful after the season.

I look for them to lose the season opener against Florida State and continue to struggle against the upper echelon of the SEC.

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