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A word college football is using

“hot seat”

Where a coach sits when the job is believed to be at risk.

Old sports-media vocabulary that fans adopted and never gave back.

13 Mentions a day now
1,095 In the last 84 days
48Loudest day · Jul 16

How often it gets said

Daily mentions across the whole conversation corpus, smoothed over 7 days. A break in the line is a stretch where the word fell below the reporting floor — not a stretch where nobody said it.

Measured on 75 of the window’s 84 days.

  1. 1Thu Jul 16 · 48 mentions · 12 of 48 mentions named Florida State
  2. 2Tue Jul 21 · 40 mentions
  3. 3Mon Aug 17 · 40 mentions

A day is attributed to a program only when that program held at least 1.75× the next program’s mentions, from 5+ separate posts. The game shown is that program’s result within a day of the peak. A day with no program named was a day nobody owned.

Who’s saying it

Share of the posts, articles and transcripts in the window that used the word, by kind of source. Counted per document, not per mention, so one long transcript that says it twenty times is one voice, not twenty.

“hot seat” is spread across sources: beat writers and press (40%), Reddit (29%) and podcasts and radio (19%).

What it sounds like

Real posts from the corpus, quoted verbatim. The community is shown; the username never is.

“The amount of money we spend on this damned football program and lack of success we get as a result is super embarrassing. 50 million and we get throttled by Kentucky at home.”
— r/aggies, Sep 20
“I'm not ready to crown him but overall was pleased with what I saw. I feel like Rossi's defense is a bit behind schedule. Not saying he should be fired or even on the hot seat but I am a bit weary.”
— r/MSUSpartans, Sep 20

Who it gets said about

2026 season, FBS programs. These are mentions that name a program — from rival fans and national media as readily as from their own people — so this is what the sport says about a program, not what that program’s fans say.

#ProgramVs. the average program Mentions
1Boston College1.9×32
2North Carolina1.8×93
3Massachusetts1.7×29
4Rutgers1.7×58
5Cincinnati1.7×66
6Wisconsin1.7×110
7South Carolina1.5×143
8New Mexico1.5×25
9Mississippi State1.4×94
10Florida State1.4×160
11SMU1.4×56
12Kansas1.4×80
13Baylor1.3×74
14Washington State1.3×27
15USC1.3×113

66 FBS programs cleared the 25-mention floor for this word. Ranked by over-index, not raw volume — raw volume just ranks how much a program gets talked about.