BYU’s Kalani Sitake among favorites to be first college football head coach fired in 2024

Tony Adame

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BYU head coach Kalani Sitake guided the Cougars into a power conference for the first time in 2023 with some pretty grisly results, going 5-7 overall and 2-7 in Big 12 Conference play. 

Those results are the main reason why oddsmakers have Sitake among the favorites to be the first college football coach fired in 2024 with 10-to-1 odds at BetOnline.com. 

Florida’s Billy Napier led the way with 4-to-1 odds.  

It was only the second losing season for BYU since Sitake was hired in 2016 and ended a streak of five consecutive seasons with a bowl game. 

Sitake isn’t the only coach in the Big 12 on the hot seat headed into 2024. Baylor’s Dave Aranda  (7-to-1), Cincinnati’s Scott Satterfield (14-to-1), West Virginia’s Neal Brown (14-to-1) and Colorado’s Deion Sanders (50-to-1) also made the list.

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Tony Adame covers the Big 12 Conference for The Sporting News. He is a graduate of Southern Oregon University and has been a sports journalist for 20 years. He has won APSE Awards for breaking news, games stories and feature writing. He is also the writer and host of the Florida Society of News Editors Award-winning podcast The Sheriff: Murder, Lies & Revenge in Okaloosa County for USA Today/Gannett.