The full tour

There's a lot here. Here's all of it.

15 features across three parts: tracking the carousel, talking trash about it, and competing on how it plays out. Every screenshot below is the live site. Skim the nav or scroll the whole thing.

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Part one

Track the carousel

Every FBS head coach has a live job-security score. These are the pages where the numbers live, the money is counted, and the stories break.

01

The Board

One page. Every seat that matters today.

The homepage is the daily briefing: the Big Story we're tracking, the hottest seat in the sport, the live leaderboard, and what fans are saying about it. It updates all day as the news does.

  • The Big Story banner follows one developing situation until it resolves.
  • “Hottest seat right now” is the top of the board, with the live storyline behind the number.
  • Pick your team and the board rearranges around your coach.
Open The Board
Coaching Buzz homepage with the Big Story banner, hottest seat card and leaderboard
02

Hot Seat Leaderboard

All 138 coaches, 0 to 100.

The full ranking, filterable by conference and searchable by name. Scores above 62 are HOT; above 85 it's win-or-be-fired; 93 and up means a change is actively unfolding. Every score change is proposed from the news and approved by a human before it publishes.

  • Star a coach to pin his seat to the top of your view.
  • The bar colors match the temperature bands explained on How Scoring Works.
  • Share the graphic straight to X from the leaderboard header.
See the full leaderboard
Hot Seat leaderboard with coaches ranked by score and colored temperature bars
03

Coach Pages

The whole case, on one card.

Each coach gets a page with his current score and 24-hour move, record, buyout, the plain-English read on his situation, a weekly fan approval vote, and every take fans have posted about him.

  • Vote Approve or Disapprove once a week; the chart tracks the mood all season.
  • Give your take and it appears here and on your profile.
  • Share the card, a ready-made graphic with the score on it.
Open a coach page
Dabo Swinney coach page with a score ring, record, buyout and fan takes
04

Buyout Tracker

The most expensive scoreboard in football.

How much every school would owe to move on from its coach, ranked. The running total at the top is the dead money currently being paid to coaches who are no longer coaching, and it updates in real time.

  • Sort by total owed, paid to date, or years remaining.
  • Each card shows the pace of payments and what's left on the deal.
  • Tap Discuss to jump into the thread about that contract.
Count the money
Buyout Tracker ranking coaches by the size of their contract buyout
05

Team Pages

Rosters, staff, schedule and the seat, together.

Every FBS program has a home: record, ranking, the head coach's seat, coaching staff, a live-updating starting lineup, and the full schedule with matchup previews and odds.

  • Mark a program as My Team to follow it across the site.
  • Download the starting-lineup graphic or post it to X in one tap.
  • Matchup previews go live during the week before each game.
Find your team
LSU team page showing the head coach, stadium, and starting lineup
06

Top 25

Who climbed, who slid, who's next.

The AP poll, updated every Sunday, with movement arrows and a direct line to each team's page. Useful context for whose seat gets cooler or hotter when the rankings shift.

  • Tap any team to open its page and schedule.
  • Arrows show the move from last week's poll.
See the poll
Top 25 poll with ranked teams and movement indicators
07

Big Stories

One story, every outlet, kept current.

When a coaching situation blows up, we track it as a single storyline instead of a hundred headlines. The summary rewrites itself as the story develops, and every article covering it is collected underneath.

  • The headline updates when the facts change, and you can see how many outlets are on it.
  • Every Big Story opens a discussion thread on the boards.
Read the current Big Story
A Big Story page with a headline, hero photo and running summary

Part two

Talk trash

A free account unlocks the community: team message boards, live gameday rooms, and a place to hit something when your Saturday goes sideways.

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Message Boards

A board for every program, plus The War Room.

Each of the 138 teams has its own board, and two national rooms (The War Room and Rumor Mill) cover the whole sport. Threads sort by Hot or New, and staff seed a thread for every game, every Big Story, and every big score move.

  • Pinned welcome threads introduce the newest members each week.
  • Rage Room threads collect the punches thrown at your fanbase's seat.
  • Post from your team's board and it shows on your profile.
Browse the boards
The LSU message board with hot threads and a welcome thread pinned
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Gameday Chat

Live rooms for the biggest hot-seat games.

Rooms open an hour before kickoff for the games that matter most to a coach's future and stay live through the final whistle. Afterward they're archived so the reactions are on the record.

  • Check Hot Seat Watch on the leaderboard to see which games get rooms.
  • Archived rooms are readable by anyone.
See gameday rooms
Gameday Chat lobby with live and recently archived game rooms
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The Rage Room

Forty-five seconds. No coaches were harmed.

Pick your fanbase and step into the ring against The Headset, a faceless stand-in for the sideline wearing your colors. He slips punches, swings in flurries, and counters when you get blocked; three knockdowns is a TKO. Rooms only unlock when a seat is HOT or worse, so the fanbases that can rage are the ones with a reason to.

  • Jab the open side of his guard, dodge when the arm goes up, counter the whiff.
  • Counters earn stars; three stars unlock the Buyout Punch.
  • Every punch counts toward the Misery Index, and TKOs are tracked per fanbase.
Step in the ring
A live Rage Room bout: The Headset in Florida State colors with his guard up, score and round timer above the ring
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Misery Index

Which fanbase is suffering most this week.

Fanbases ranked by total punches thrown in the Rage Room over the last seven days, with arrows against the week before. It's a mood ring for college football, built from what fans actually do rather than what they say.

  • Share a fanbase's misery card straight to X.
  • Trending arrows compare this week to last.
See who's hurting
The Misery Index ranking fanbases by Rage Room punches

Part three

Compete

Call your shots, answer the daily question, and build a profile that shows you saw it coming.

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Carousel Pick’em

Pick who gets fired. Prove you saw it coming.

Before the season locks, pick exactly eight coaches you think won't survive the year, each with a firing window and a guess at the replacement. Long shots pay more than sure things, early entries earn a timing bonus, and nailing the hire pays extra.

  • Entries lock at kickoff of the first FBS game; the leaderboard runs all season.
  • Recruit three friends and earn a mid-season pick swap.
  • Scoring details are on How Scoring Works.
Open Pick’em
Carousel Pick'em landing page with the locked entries panel and referral reward
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Question of the Day

One poll, every day, results at midnight.

A single yes-or-no or multiple-choice question about the carousel each day. Vote, argue about it, and check back to see how the whole site split. Past questions and their results are archived.

  • Voting earns XP toward your profile rank.
  • Past results show exactly how confident the crowd was, and when it was wrong.
Answer today’s question
Question of the Day page with past questions and their vote splits
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Your Profile

XP, badges, your team, your takes.

Everything you do here (takes, votes, posts, picks, punches) earns XP and builds a public profile. Founding Members who joined before the season are badged for life, and your Rage Room record and Pick'em standing live here too.

  • Set your team and it appears on your posts across the site.
  • Badges unlock for streaks, first posts, and being early to a story.
See a profile
A member profile with XP progress, Founding Member badge and recent activity
15

Buyout Bowl

The postseason nobody wants to make.

A bracket-style look at the season's biggest buyouts as they're triggered, with a shareable graphic that updates as the carousel turns. It's the scoreboard for the money side of the coaching carousel.

  • Share the current bracket to X from the page header.
See the bracket
The Buyout Bowl page showing the season's largest buyouts

That's the whole site. Now pick a team.

A free account unlocks the boards, gameday rooms, the Rage Room, Pick'em, and a profile that keeps score of everything you called.