10. Will Muschamp, Florida

Years: 2011-14

Record: 28-21

Ron Zook (23-14 at Florida) got serious consideration for this spot. Doomed from the start, many Gators fans booed his unsexy hiring following Steve Spurrier. He also at one point tried to fight fraternity brothers on campus. But, despite falling well short of Spurrier and his successor Urban Meyer, Zook wasn’t an unmitigated disaster.

Muschamp brought his hard-nosed brand of defense with him to Gainesville, leading the team to 11 wins and a Sugar Bowl in 2012 despite a lethargic offense. Things nosedived from there. Suffering as many major injuries as any team in the country in ’13, the Gators lost seven consecutive games to close the season, falling to Vanderbilt and Georgia Southern. Last season wasn’t much better, as Florida scraped into the Birmingham Bowl.

Florida’s biggest obstacle under Muschamp was finding an offensive coordinator and a quarterback to keep the Gators’ passing game adequate. The team burned through Charlie Weis, Brent Pease and Kurt Roper at offensive coordinator, none of whom could turn Jeff Driskel into a decent quarterback or locate someone else who could play the position. Muschamp looked too much like a defensive coordinator and not enough like a good CEO.

9. Lane Kiffin, Tennessee

Years: 2009

Record: 7-6

Kiffin inherited a program that had plunged into mediocrity at the end of the Phillip Fulmer era. He didn’t do an awful job on the field, even nearly beating No. 1 Alabama and making quarterback Jonathan Crompton look like a superstar.

Off the field, Kiffin was a land mine set to explode whenever he opened his mouth. He accused then-Florida coach Urban Meyer of cheating, in the process violating an SEC rule barring coaches from mentioning specific recruits by name. It turned out Kiffin was wrong, earning him a public reprimand from SEC commissioner Mike Slive. Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley also demanded, and received, a public apology from Kiffin.

Kiffin also told eventual South Carolina signee he would end up pumping gas for the rest of his life if he played for the Gamecocks.

After just one season, Kiffin took off to Southern California to coach the Trojans, leading to student riots in Knoxville — and the hiring of Derek Dooley.

8. Brad Scott, South Carolina

Years: 1994-98

Record: 23-32-1

The Gamecocks were thrilled to land Scott, who developed the “Fast Break” offense at Florida State as a long-time Bobby Bowden assistant and then offensive coordinator. Scott helped the Seminoles win a national championship in ’93 just before arriving in Columbia, S.C.

In ’94, Scott immediately led South Carolina to its first bowl win in school history. But after three subsequent seasons hovering close to .500, he managed to crash the Gamecocks’ football program into the rocks and ruin any chance at another major head coaching gig.

The team beat Ball State in the season-opener, then proceeded to lose 10 consecutive games before getting fired. He left the roster in such poor shape that Lou Holtz, the next coach, proceeded to lose all 11 games in ’99. The 21-game losing streak finally ended Sept. 2, 2000, against New Mexico State.

7. Joker Phillips, Kentucky

Years: 2010-12

Record: 13-24

We may be seeing some parallels to the Joker Phillips era at Vanderbilt with Derek Mason, who needs to show improvement to avoid making this list next year.

Promoted from within at the conclusion of the very successful Rich Brooks era, Phillips inherited a team that had played in four consecutive bowl games, remarkable by Wildcats standards. The Brooks era included quarterbacks Jared Lorenzen and Andre Woodson as well as all-everything Randall Cobb, whom Phillips rode to a 6-6 record and a BBVA Compass Bowl appearance in ’10.

After losing that game, giving the Wildcats a losing record for the first time since 2005, the program slid downhill fast. Other than a win against Tennessee in ’11, breaking a 26-game losing streak against the Vols, Phillips systematically gave away all the progress the program made under Brooks, eventually slipping to 2-10 in 2012.

Phillips’ players also went 2-10 under Mark Stoops in ’13 before UK won five games last season.

6. Mike Shula, Alabama

Years: 2003-06

Record: 26-23

Granted, the Crimson Tide football program was in turmoil when Shula arrived. The NCAA body-slammed Alabama stemming from infractions committed during the Mike DuBose era, Dennis Franchione asked players and fans to “hold the rope” before skedaddling to Texas A&M and Mike Price — well, more on that in a bit.

Shula did a decent job of recruiting, considering his constraints and the perception of Alabama at the time. But on the field, he was lost, failing to develop that talent and generally getting lapped by his greatest rivals.

Alabama went a combined 1-7 against Tennessee and Auburn under Shula. Nick Saban is 13-3 since then.

Shula did lead the team to 10 wins in ’05, earning a contract extension. It proved the only time in four years that his Tide teams finished above .500, which is almost unconscionable within the program’s history. Bama later vacated wins in ’05 and ’06 due to NCAA infractions.

5. Curley Hallman, LSU

Years: 1991-94

Record: 16-28

To date, Hallman is the only LSU coach since the formation of the SEC never to record a winning record or coach in a bowl game.

Hallman’s career resume includes a 2-9 season in Baton Rouge in ’92, worst in program history. His players allegedly instigated a fight with the men’s basketball team — including Shaquille O’Neal — in ’91.

Under Hallman, things only got worse for the Bayou Bengals, if that’s possible. The team lost to Florida, 58-3, in Tiger Stadium in ’93, the worst defeat in school history. LSU nearly snapped Auburn’s 13-game winning streak in ’94, but threw six interceptions.

In another game that year, LSU trailed Texas A&M by five points with about two minutes to go. Possessing the ball close to midfield, with two timeouts, Hallman decided to punt, and the Aggies promptly ran out the clock.

It’s impossible to spell out the extent of Hallman’s ineptitude in this space, but you can find out more for yourself here.

4. Ed Orgeron, Ole Miss

Years: 2005-07

Record: 10-25

Orgeron may have mellowed slightly within the last two seasons. In Oxford, though, he was a meteor of intensity so hot that he burned up, and burned out, much that surrounded him.

His attempt to bring USC’s offense with him from Southern California, and when that failed, to import Miami’s from South Florida, were dumpster fires. The team finished near the bottom of the NCAA all three seasons.

It’s not as if the Rebels lacked talent — players like Patrick Willis, Mike Wallace, BenJarvis Green-Ellis, Dexter McCluster, Michael Oher, Jamarca Sanford and Greg Hardy — yet Ole Miss won just three SEC games in three years under Orgeron. Worse, the Rebels beat just two teams with winning records.

But hey, at least he gave us that Hummer commercial. Oh, and don’t forget “Colonel Reb is Cryin.”

3. Mike Price, Alabama

Years: 2003

Record: 0-0

The Price hiring ended in disaster before the former Washington State coach ever took the field.

After several drunken incidents near campus — including a few times he reportedly propositioned college-age students at a bar and at his condo — Price’s party-boy behavior finally went public thanks to a trip to Pensacola, Fla.

As Sports Illustrated reported in a cover story in May 2003, Price allegedly visited a strip club multiple times, spending hundreds in tips, taking dancers to semi-private rooms, breaking the rules about touching the performers and propositioning several to have sex in his hotel later that night.

One of the women alleged that she engaged in a threesome with Price at his hotel: “We started screaming ‘Roll Tide!’ and he was yelling back, ‘It’s rolling, baby, it’s rolling.'” Later, one of the women reportedly tried to charge nearly $1,000 in room service to one of Price’s cards.

The Tide fired Price after he went through one spring practice. The timing was awful for the program, which already was going through an NCAA punishment. Not too long before, Mike DeBose got fired in part because he lied about an affair he held with a staff member, and Dennis Franchione had recently abandoned his post in favor of Texas A&M just before Price was hired.

“Coming from where he came from (out West), I don’t think he could really grasp what a spotlight he was in,” an Alabama booster told SI. “This is a different world down here when it comes to our football. You really need a little good ol’ boy, a hair of redneck and a lot of back-slapping in you. Everyone in the state is a critic, and everywhere you go, people are watching. He never got that this ain’t the Pac-10.”

2. Derek Dooley, Tennessee

Years: 2010-12

Record: 15-21

Just as Alabama underwent a prolonged, historical low-point in the early ’00s, Tennessee followed with one of its own.

The downturn at the end of the Phillip Fulmer era bled into the Lane Kiffin debacle, which set up a three-year run by Derek Dooley.

Words thrown around to describe his tenure include “incompetent” and “not fit to be a head coach.” Since the formation of the SEC in 1933, the Vols never had endured back-to-back losing seasons. Dooley’s ’10 team lost the Music City Bowl to finish 6-7, and he promptly fell to 5-7 in ’11 and 4-7 in ’12 before the team had enough.

Dooley got slack his first season since so many scholarship players had left the program. But with offensive stars in QB Tyler Bray, WR Cordarrelle Patterson and WR Justin Hunter, the expectation was that the team would improve in ’12. Instead, the team lost to rival Florida yet again (Dooley went 0-3 against the Gators), then suffered infuriating defeats to Missouri and Vanderbilt.

His recruiting was so apathetic — he didn’t sign a single offensive lineman in 2012 — that once A.J. Johnson got in legal trouble, the team had next to nothing to offer NFL scouts at the recent pro day.

It’s taken Butch Jones three years to get Tennessee back in position to be competitive.

1. John L. Smith, Arkansas

Years: 2012

Record: 4-8

To be fair, Smith never asked Bobby Petrino to carry on an extramarital affair, get the woman hired within the athletic department and then wreck his motorcycle with her on board.

Smith had just left Arkansas to coach at Weber State, but the Razorbacks asked him to return on a 10-month contract entering the ’12 season, and he obliged.

Petrino led the team to a 21-5 record the two previous seasons, earning a No. 5 ranking in the Associated Press poll just months before.

Arkansas returned plenty of talent, including QB Tyler Wilson, RB Knile Davis and WR Cobi Hamilton. And Smith had plenty of previous experience, coaching Idaho, Utah State, Louisville and Michigan State.

The Razorbacks ranked at No. 8 after beating FCS opponent Jacksonville State to open the season, but couldn’t hold it together. Arkansas lost to Louisiana-Monroe the following week and then got embarrassed, 52-0, by Alabama, leading to a 4-8 season.

Off the field, Smith filed for bankruptcy in September with $40.7 million of debt, adding further embarrassment to the program. That’s not to mention a bizarre opening to a press conference following his loss to the Tide.