After losing to Mississippi State in Week 9, Texas A&M football coach Kevin Sumlin’s seat is back to being warmer than usual.
As time ticked down on Texas A&M’s bid to put any sort of comeback together against Mississippi State in Week 9, one thing became more certain: Kevin Sumlin’s job is no longer safe again.
The Aggies’ head coach has jumped back and forth from being safe from the hot seat to sitting squarely on it multiple times and the loss, at home, to Mississippi State may have placed him on it for the remainder of the season.
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It was a game the Aggies should have won. In fact, Texas A&M came into the game as the first team outside of the AP Top 25 and played host to the inconsistent Bulldogs. However, Dan Mullen and Co. came in and out-performed, out-coach and out-hustled the Aggies to the tune of a blowout win.
The loss to the Bulldogs was ugly, to say the least. The Aggies were expecting to roll over Mississippi State to gain bowl eligibility, but that didn’t quite work out.
After avoiding the hot seat with wins over Florida, South Carolina and Arkansas in SEC play and a gritty loss to Alabama, Sumlin just couldn’t stay away from it all season. The Bulldogs humiliated the Aggies on their home field and this might be the last straw for Sumlin.
To make matters worse, he created a quarterback controversy for himself as he replaced a struggling Kellen Mond with Nick Starkel after the former was nicked up but looked capable of coming back in the game. That usually never ends well. If you have two quarterbacks, you essentially have none.
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While the hot seat could cool down if he finds a way to beat Auburn, LSU and Ole Miss to end the season, or even a combination of two.