College football: 5 second-year head coaches who must win big in 2019

All the chatter each year is about first-year head college football coaches, but what about the guys entering their second seasons with a program?

Some of the biggest college football programs in the nation hired new head coaches in 2018.  Some hit the ground running, while others failed to even make a bowl, but regardless of last year’s performance, the second-season for head coaches tend to be a pressure-filled year where expectations need to be met, no matter how high.

Here are five head coaches that will almost certainly be feeling an increased amount of pressure to succeed as they head into their second seasons with their new teams.

5. Scott Frost, Nebraska

Scott Frost enters his second season with the Cornhuskers with high expectations for a number of reasons. First of all, Nebraska is one of the best college football programs of all-time and Frost was brought in to not only bring in the same level of success he had at UCF in 2017 but also to get them back to that same level of success he had in his playing days as a Cornhusker when he led them to a national championship in 1997.

This may seem like a long track record of success, but in reality, Frost has only been a head coach for three seasons and two of those seasons he struggled terribly, posting a record of 6-7 2016 and 4-8 in 2018.

If Nebraska gets off on the wrong foot in September, people are likely to begin assuming that his perfect season in 2017 was more in credit to quarterback McKenzie Milton, who threw for over 4,000 yards and was the unquestionable leader of a team that finished the season as the top-ranked offense in the country.

Only time will tell if Frost is the real deal or if 2017 was just a lucky year, but if he puts up another seven or eight-loss year like he did in 2016 and 2018, don’t expect to see him back in Lincoln for a third season.