2022 Hot Seat Rankings: Jimbo Fisher makes debut with Bryan Harsin, Scott Satterfield among coaches heating up - CBS Sports

The Badgers' new interim coach has seven games left this season to prove himself.

It also made CBS Sports' in-season Hot Seat Rankings update almost moot – almost.

There was immediate speculation Illini coach Bret Bielema would return for an encore at the place he coached for seven seasons.

What did happen was Bielema maintaining his spot at the second all-time winningest Badgers coach with just one more victory than Chryst.

We're talking about a defensive expert having to show he can find and install a new offense in a seven-game period.

We're talking about a coordinator having to recruit for a job he may not get with the early signing period creeping up on Dec.

We're talking about an interim coach needing to prove he can somewhat challenge Ohio State and Michigan.

We're talking the first interim coach ever to be on the hot seat himself?

That doesn't answer the question of whether seven weeks is a large enough sample size.

Wisconsin's problems didn't develop over the last seven weeks or seven months.

Would Chryst still be coach had Wisconsin beaten Illinois by a touchdown, as it was so favored.

Nebraska's Scott Frost and Arizona State's Herm Edwards topped our preseason Hot Seat Rankings

With that said, before we get to our Hot Seat Rankings updated just over one-third of the way into the season, a reminder of our ratings key