Expert reveals the CFB HC with the most pressure to win this weekend

Ryan Day needs to lead his No. 1-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes to a win over the Michigan Wolverines this weekend. 

Sure, he won the College Football Playoff national championship last season, and yes, he's 81-10 as the head coach in Columbus. For OSU, it's all about beating Michigan, though, and that's something Day hasn't been able to do over the past four years.

This upcoming weekend in "The Game", Day will be under immense pressure to beat the No. 18-ranked Wolverines.

According to Dan Wetzel of ESPN, though, there is one coach in college football who will be facing more pressure to win than Day this weekend. That would be Lane Kiffin at Ole Miss, whose 10-1 and No. 6-ranked Rebels are taking on 5-6 Mississippi State in the Egg Bowl.

Kiffin has been the centerpiece of a college football coaching drama over the past few weeks that he's done nothing to quell. He has Ole Miss poised for a huge College Football Playoff run, but at the same time, he's also being openly courted for the vacant head coaching positions with the Florida Gators and LSU Tigers.

It has gotten to a point where athletic director Keith Carter has said that an announcement on Kiffin's future with the Rebels will be made on Saturday after this massive game against Mississippi State.

Talk about a distraction, right? It couldn't come at a worse time for Ole Miss, either, with the Rebels in the midst of a historic season. That's why Wetzel believes this is one of the biggest must-win games in college football history.

"If Ole Miss gets upset Friday by its archrival, it could all collapse. If so, the blame will be singular. Day can lose and, despite the embarrassment, move on to bigger challenges. Kiffin might never live down creating a circus of speculation and distraction as he considers quitting on a playoff team," Wetzel wrote.

Lane Kiffin under immense pressure to lead Ole Miss to a win over Mississippi State

If Ole Miss beats its rival on Friday, the Rebels will finish this season at 11-1 and they'd be one of the favorites to win it all in the CFP. Even that wouldn't guarantee Kiffin would stick around, though. Wetzel can also foresee a situation where the CFP committee could "punish" the Rebels for not having the head coach who led them there.

"Making matters worse, it's quite possible Kiffin bails the next day. That would give the College Football Playoff committee the option of downgrading the Rebels because they lost their head coach the way it downgraded Florida State two years ago because it lost its starting quarterback to injury," Wetzel wrote.

It truly is a lose-lose situation for the Rebels if Kiffin decides to bail to Florida or LSU. Of course, he could stay in Oxford and become a hero, but if he's planning on leaving, he at the very least needs to deliver one more win for the Rebels.