The final regular season Sunday of the college football season is traditionally known as Black Sunday and for good reason.
Texas A&M parted ways with coach Kevin Sumlin on Sunday, one day after the Aggies dropped to 7-5 on the season following a 45-21 loss to LSU.
The move caps off a year in which Sumlin was publicly put on notice by athletics director Scott Woodward in April for not winning enough games to his family receiving racial threats in the mail back in September.
Sumlin, 53, became the 13th Football Bowl Subdivision coach to either resign or get fired this season. He was also the fourth coach to get fired this weekend, joining Arkansas' Bret Bielema, Nebraska's Mike Riley and Arizona State's Todd Graham.
Graham was dismissed earlier in the day following a 7-5 campaign; his sixth. He amassed a 46-31 overall record at the school but struggled to recapture the success of back-to-back 10-win seasons in 2013 and 2014.
Both Sumlin and Graham each coached 77 games during their tenures.
Sumlin's firing is the fifth head coaching opening in the SEC this season. Although Florida reportedly hired Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen Sunday.
Tennessee, meanwhile, is kicking the tires on Ohio State defensive coordinator Greg Schiano.
USA Today's Dan Wolken reported Sunday afternoon that Tennessee, which fired Butch Jones back on Nov. 12, was close to finalizing a deal to make Schiano the program's next coach.
The 51-year-old Schiano was the head coach at Rutgers for a decade from 2001-11. He led the Scarlet Knights to a 68-67 record. He would go on to become the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for two seasons from 2012-2013 before being fired.
