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Eight SEC Coaches Enter Season on the Hot Seat

Oklahoma coach Brent Venables had a rough first season in the SEC, and the Sooners have made changes around him in hopes to salvage his tenure. | Jordan Godfree-Imagn Images

ATLANTA — There is only one rock-solid certainty in the Southeastern Conference: The football coaching lineup will change in the next six months. Perhaps massively.

For just the third time in the last 45 years, there were no coaching changes last year in the most tumultuous league in America. Going a second straight year without a firing, a resignation or a retirement? No chance. Last time the SEC did that was 1965 and ’66, when Arch Manning’s famous grandfather was still in high school.

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