Vegas Gives Odds For First NCAA Head Coach Fired In 2023

It's never comfortable to talk about, but the coaching carousel is going to start spinning again soon...whether we like it or not. 

On Tuesday morning, sportsbetting.ag released odds for who would be the first NCAA football coach of the 2023 season to be fired. 

It's worth noting that you won't see Michigan State's Mel Tucker on this list. This could be for a few reasons, but one that sports books and casinos give sometimes is they don't feel confident they could actually make any money from assigning odds to a scenario. Tucker is currently suspended without pay by the university.

Regardless, these are the coaches who have been assigned odds to be the first head coach fired this season. Three of those coaches are from the Group of Five. 

Jimbo Fisher (Texas A&M) 4/1

Butch Jones (Arkansas State) 5/1

Danny Gonzales (New Mexico) 5/1

Tony Elliott (Virginia) 5/1

Neal Brown (West Virginia) 6/1

Tom Allen (Indiana) 7/1

Jeff Haley (Boston College) 9/1

Dino Babers (Syracuse) 10/1

Justin Wilcox (California) 10/1

Dana Holgerson (Houston) 12/1

Brent Venables (Oklahoma) 16/1

Eliah Drinkwitz (Missouri) 16/1

Ryan Silverfeld (Memphis) 20/1

Sun Belt fans will notice Arkansas State head coach Butch Jones among those listed. The Red Wolves are currently 0-2 to start the season. Jones took the job in 2021 and has a record of 5-21 since.

New Mexico's Danny Gonzalez is 1-1 to begin the season. He has a record of 8-25 and he's now in his fourth year with the program.

Finally, Memphis head coach Ryan Silverfeld is given 20/1 odds for being the first head coach fired this year. Silverfeld has undoubtedly had the most successful run of the G5 coaches mentioned here. The Tigers are 2-0 to start the year and have not had a losing season in any of Silverfeld's previous three years as head coach. However, Memphis has yet to finish a season ranked under Silverfeld while the program's previous two head coaches accomplished that at least once in four year tenures with the Tigers.