Welcome to Week 9 of Conference Chatter, where you’ll be asked kindly to answer a question before proceeding.**The question**: OK, so if you had to take a guess on which head coach had the most secure job in college football, who would you say? Don’t think about this for more than a minute. Post your answer to the comments section when you’ve made your final choice. A brief explanation is optional…………….(While waiting for your answers, if anyone saw Metallica at Sprint Center this weekend, feel free to post what you thought. I had to miss it because of work, so I’m curious as to how it went)……………OK, time’s up, friends. If you’re reading this part of the blog, hopefully you’ve posted your answer to the comments section already. No cheating, or else your punishment is bad karma in the form of a low-scoring and rather boring BCS Championship game between Alabama and Penn State. There’s actually a Web site, [coacheshotseat.com][1], that ranks every Bowl Subdivision football coach in order of how badly he’s on the hot seat. After clicking the link, be sure to check out the Web site’s hilarious and creative logo of a burning chair in the top-left corner.This is a detailed site. It has detailed bios and statistical breakdowns of each coach and contains predictions on how they’ll finish the season.The college football coach with the most secure job in the nation – at least according to this site – is Texas coach Mack Brown (I take it a few readers may have guessed correctly here). The Longhorns coach is listed at 120th on the hot seat…of 120 D-1 coaches.The coach who apparently is on the most burning seat in the nation is Auburn’s Tommy Tuberville, who’s 4-4 and 2-3 this season in the SEC. Whether Auburn’s awful 3-2 conference victory over Mississippi State on Sept. 13 had anything to do with this ranking has yet to be determined.Here’s where each Big 12 coach ranked on the Web site. For reference on the numbers, Tuberville was 1 and Brown was 120.
Thoughts?**We’ll continue this entry with the week 9 awards**.**Performer of the week: Jordan Shipley, Texas** In a game that lacked typical Big 12 offense (Texas defeated Oklahoma State, 28-24), Shipley’s production didn’t suffer. He still caught 15 passes for 168 yards and a touchdown against an Oklahoma State defense that’s picked off six passes in four Big 12 games. Without Shipley, who also added a 17-yard run on a reverse, the Longhorns aren’t No. 1 in the nation.**Most significant win of the week: Missouri 58, Colorado 0** The Tigers needed to crush someone after being embarrassed in Austin last week with a 35-3 halftime deficit. Missouri had also lost two games in a row. MU’s schedule is favorable enough to where it won’t have to play a ranked team again the rest of the season, unless Kansas crawls back into the top 25 before the Border Showdown. Missouri won’t be taken seriously, though, unless it wins the Big 12 Championship Game. The two games it has lost this year were to Big 12 South powers Texas and Oklahoma State.**Biggest surprise of the week: Texas Tech 63, Kansas 21** The lopsided affair wasn’t supposed to happen to a KU team that had won 13 straight games at Memorial Stadium, and had given OU a close ballgame a week before in Norman, Okla.**The Sorrentino Scale will complete** this edition of Conference Chatter. The number that follows in parenthesis is what place the team was ranked last week.1 (1). Texas (8-0): Will consecutive big games (Oklahoma in Dallas, vs. Missouri, vs. Oklahoma State, next Saturday at Texas Tech) ever catch up to the Longhorns? 2 (3). Texas Tech (8-0): The sport’s worst job: Being a defensive coordinator against these guys. 3 (2). Oklahoma State (7-1): If there was ever a way to lose in style, the Cowboys pulled it off last Saturday in Austin. 4 (4). Oklahoma (7-1): Great concern about this defense in the big picture. 5 (6). Missouri (6-2): Defense needed that shutout for confidence. 6 (5). Kansas (5-3): Must rebound vs. K-State. 7 (7). Nebraska (5-3): I see signs that last year is past, but next week in Norman will be tough. 8 (8). Colorado (4-4): No one has looked worse recently, but the Buffaloes beat K-State, so I couldn’t drop ’em too far. 9 (10). Kansas State (4-4): …Yeah, this is a top-heavy conference. 10 (9). Baylor (3-5): Have lost 4 of 5. 11 (12). Texas A&M (3-5): They’ve finally escaped the cellar after five weeks. 12 (11). Iowa State (2-6): Only team left without a victory in conference play.Before I go…if you have a Twitter account, be sure to [follow the Conference Chatter and Big 12 Spotlight online here][2]. If you’ve never heard of Twitter, check it out. Pretty cool social network/blogging site where you can send updates and post links to keep all your friends in the know. That’s all for now, friends. As always, discuss. [1]: http://www.coacheshotseat.com/CoachesHotSeatRanking.htm [2]: https://twitter.com/Big12_Spotlight