Entering Week 10, the heat on Georgia's Mark Richt was as hot as the center of the sun, Auburn's Gus Malzahn desperately needed to find a way to get to a bowl game in order to keep the heat off in 2016 and the coaching silly season seemed like it was in full gear despite there being a month of games left to play.
On Sunday morning, that cooled a little bit.
Richt's Bulldogs rolled Kentucky 27-3, Auburn dominated No. 19 Texas A&M 26-10 and what seemed like a growing wave of scrutiny subsided.
Is that permanent, though?