Sportsbook offering SEC pair as most likely to be first coach fired

The Florida Gators are more than a month away from their 2024 season opener, but coach Billy Napier is already on the proverbial hot seat.The Gators’ third-year coach is being offered at +400 by SportsBetting.ag to be the first NCAA football coach fired this season. Napier, who is 11-14 in two seasons in Gainesville, failed to lead the Gators to a bowl game for the first time since 2017.Napier leads a list of 18 names being offered by the sportsbook. The second shortest odds belong to Sam Pittman (+500), who is 23-25 through his first four seasons at Arkansas. Looking deeper, the Razorbacks are 11-14 over the past two years — identical to Napier.Next on the list is Miami’s Mario Cristobal at +600. Those odds could shift significantly with Miami and Florida kicking off their seasons against each other in Gainesville on Aug. 31.Cristobal, who is coming off signing a third consecutive strong recruiting class, is 12-13 entering the fourth year of the 10-year contract he signed to leave Oregon in 2022.FIRST NCAA FOOTBALL COACH FIRED*Billy Napier, Florida (4/1)Sam Pittman, Arkansas (5/1)Mario Cristobal, Miami (6/1)Dave Aranda, Baylor (7/1)Clark Lea, Vanderbilt (8/1)Kalani Sitake, BYU (10/1)Justin Wilcox, California (12/1)Pat Narduzzi, Pittsburgh (12/1)Ryan Day, Ohio State (12/1)Neal Brown, West Virginia (14/1)Scott Satterfield, Cincinnati (14/1)Mike Locksley, Maryland (16/1)

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