COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri football coach Eli Drinkwitz just might be a popular invite to this season's coaching carousel, but he has a lot of reasons not to accept a ticket to ride.

The 2025 college football season is only halfway gone, and nine Football Bowl Subdivision programs have fired their coaches. In a post-House settlement financial landscape that looks a little bit more stable for university athletic departments, there are likely to be a good handful more openings.

And Mizzou's Eli Drinkwitz, having rebuilt his program into consecutive 10win seasons and a current Top 25 ranking, will continue to be linked to some of those jobs.

The question — the fear, for some — is whether he'll entertain any of them.

The threats to the University of Missouri losing its prized football coach

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