This year’s college football coaching carousel has created a vast web of storylines that draw similarities to soap operas and made-for-TV moments that not even the most absurd reality shows could develop.

As the season drags on, this year’s cycle has been a combination of Days of Our Lives and The Bachelor. What makes such shows so popular is the creation of such absurdity that viewers can’t look away. College football’s absurdity is the hundreds of millions of dollars owed in buyout money that seems to keep climbing rapidly every week.

Auburn became the latest SEC school to part ways with its coach on Sunday, Nov. 2. Hugh Freeze’s $15.4 million adds to just under $185 million owed to the now 11 fired head coaches this cycle. Florida football contributed to that figure a few weeks ago

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