Welcome to the SEC Head Coach Hot Seat Index. This is the first edition of the Hot Seat Index for 2024, and it comes after an interesting weekend of action in the SEC. Some head coaches made their seats even warmer,

Since DeBoer has taken over, legendary Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron, who won two-straight National Championships with the Crimson Tide, has claimed the program feels "different," during an appearance on the McCready and Siskey podcast .

Bernard committed to and signed with DeBoer at Washington in the 2022 class. Bernard was granted a release from his letter of intent less than a month later and signed with Michigan State, but returned to Washington and to DeBoer in 2023 before following the Huskies coach to Tuscaloosa in 2024.