After all the college football coach firings we’ve seen so far, and all the ones that are still presumably coming, it was noteworthy how nonplussed everyone’s reaction to Florida firing Billy Napier on Sunday was.

Florida is a big job, it won the previous day and it next plays rival Georgia after a week off. Ordinarily, canning a guy under those circumstances would be a five-alarm-fire, circle-the-jets story in college football. But firing was met with a collective yawn; Napier had essentially been fired in everybody’s minds weeks ago. It was a little like finding out that this is the final season of “Grey’s Anatomy.” Huh, wow, I had no idea that show was still on the air. Though I’m pretty sure Shonda Rhimes wouldn’t have lost at home to South Florida.

At its midway point, the 2025 college football season seems destined to be known for two not-unrelated things: parity (at least until Ohio State, Georgia or Alabama wins the national championship) and coach firings.

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But when we talk about coaching changes, we should remember that we are not talking about out-of-control athletic directors and university administrators.

We are really talking about angry fan bases.

Often, when a coach is fired after only two or three years on the job, people will bring up Hall of Fame coaches who got off to slow starts when they were first building a program, like Bear Bryant (who started 1-9 at Texas A&M) or Fran