Top 10 college football programs who put the most pressure on head coaches

Jan 12, 2015; Arlington, TX, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer receives the College Football Playoff trophy from College Football Playoff executive director Bill Hancock (left) after the game against Oregon Ducks in the 2015 CFP National Championship Game at AT&T Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matthew Emmons-USA TODAY Sports

Being a college football coach is stressful but these teams take that to the next level. Here are the 10 teams who put their coaches under the most heat.

You just lost pitifully to your in-state rival. You just got shut out in back-to-back games. You just got beat by a school from the FCS. If you’re a head coach and you do anything of these things, you’ll most likely find yourself fired very soon.

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Life on the hot seat is a difficult time for the coach who has to bottle up all the tension and try to put on a brave face in front of the media and when speaking to his assistants who are hoping to keep their job and the players who don’t want to let their head coach down.

As if all that wasn’t stressful enough, these are husbands and fathers, sometimes even grandfathers who don’t want to lose their job and be relocated to another state and uproot his family and take his children out of school.

It’s common knowledge that the profession of coaching is not an easy one. It’s highs are higher than most, but it’s lows are lower than most normal people could ever imagine.

To take the head coaching position at a nationally recognized university is making an already hard job 10 times tougher. It can seem like a glamorous career when your days are filled with wins and trips to championship games. But when it’s not, you’re on the hot seat immediately and facing the wrath of an angry fan base.

Let’s take a look at the 10 most pressure-packed head coaching positions in college football.

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