With Georgia Tech pulling the plug on Geoff Collins (and AD Todd Stansbury), Bryan Harsin is now the head coach with the best odds to be fired next, according to Odds Shark — who gave Collins the best odds at +125 and Harsin the second-best at +150.
Rest assured, if the Auburn Tigers would have lost to Mizzou this past Saturday, Harsin bettors would have won some cheddar. Missouri’s game-winning kick plunked the right goal post to end the fourth quarter and force overtime, while Mizzou’s leading rusher literally dropped the ball during their overtime possession mere inches from the pylon.
Bryan Harsin lives to see his tenure on the Plains continue for at least another week. He faces an LSU squad this Saturday under the lights at Jordan-Hare Stadium, one coming off of a shutout of New Mexico State and a two-touchdown victory in their SEC opener over Mississippi State Week 3.
Bryan Harsin on the Missouri victory
“‘Oh my gosh. Oh my God.’ That’s all that went through my head,” Bryan Harsin said on September 24 in a post-game media scrum that would have had a completely different feel if those aforementioned Missouri gaffes didn’t go down in the fashion they did.
Before all of that happened, Harsin had nearly given away the Mizzou game in the final two minutes with an inexplicable fourth-down conversion attempt in field goal range that went awry during a 14-14 game. “It felt like from what we had done, and stuff we had discussed too, that we could get that,” Harsin explained to the Auburn beat this past Saturday afternoon.
Many will call that an undeserved victory, and some have already done those honors. There won’t be another low-hanging fruit on the Auburn football schedule in 2022, so elevating the Tigers’ play is the only way Harsin will get to stay.