Dec 10, 2020 coaches hot seat provides the coaches hot seat rankings and coaches hot seat daily news to college football fans everywhere. It includes teams from the ncaa division i, division ii, and division iii. The 25 best coaches in college basketball yardbarker. The top 25 head coaches in college football history fox. The schools with the most division i championships we compiled this list from the official ncaa record books, which can be found here 7.
Johns university mn only the purest of football fans have even heard mention of gagliardi, who at age 85, still patrols the sidelines of the small division iii school where gagliardi has amassed 484 wins, the most ever by a college coach at any level. Coaches with more than 200 career wins at the high school level, but fewer than 200 in michigan are listed and ranked by wins in this state. The following categories represent the historical equivalents of the highest level of play over the history of college football, and the subsequent tables list the teams for each season that went undefeated while competing in these highest categories. Mike krzyzewski has the most total victories mens or womens with 1,170.
John gagliardi leads the list in terms of winning percentage at. Here are the college football coaches with the most wins. Here are the top majorschool or fbs coaches of all time by winning. Coaching records record book football mhsaa sports. On october 7, 1916, georgia launched itself into the college football history books as the. Jun 26, 2019 during a sevenyear stretch from 197380, the crimson and cream notched an 8392 record, part of a 70s decade that saw switzers teams win an ncaa best 102 games. From bud wilkinson to barry switzer and later coach stoops the sooners have for the better part of 70 years been in. In 2012, the ncaa stripped paterno of 112 of his wins after the jerry sandusky child abuse scandal came to light. Pinkels record with mizzou after his final game on november 27, 2015, is 11873.
List of winningest college football teams american football. Bryant won two national championships at alabama in the 1960s playing oneplatoon football. Career leaders and records for bowl wins college football. According to the ncaa fbs record book, following are 25 of the oldest records in the history of college football. This is a list of college mens basketball coaches by number of career wins across all three divisions of the national collegiate athletic association ncaa and both divisions of the national association of intercollegiate athletics naia. Nick saban football coach university of alabama athletics. Nick saban surpassed paul bear bryant for most college football national championships by a coach in the associated press poll era with alabamas victory over ohio state on monday night.
Apr 17, 2019 florida states legendary head coach mike martin continues to pile up victories in his final season, becoming the first ever college baseball head coach to break the 2,000 win mark. That honor belongs to yale, who finished the 2019 season 91. The 545 victories rank 43rd among ncaa bowl subdivision formerly division ia programs in most wins. We see fantastic coaches move from university to university and create winning teams wherever they are. The most unbreakable records in college football bleacher. Career leaders and records for wins college football at sports.
Burcky has the lowest winning percentage on the list with. The top 10 winningest college football teams and coaches of. College footballs 50 alltime winningest coaches and what. The alltime win leaders in the fcs subdivision and divisions ii and iii are the yale bulldogs, pittsburg state gorillas, and the. No head coach quarterback pair has been more successful in nfl history than bill belichick and tom brady of the new england patriots. The official ncaa record book contains a list of the 50 winningest fcs coaches.
The program had a streak of 27 consecutive bowl appearances, starting with the 1993 independence bowl and lasting through the 2019 belk bowl, before ending in 2020. A total of seventyeight coaches have made the list and still maintained a winning percentage of. All but four of knights 45 ncaa tournament wins came as the head coach at indiana, where he won three national championships and competed in march madness in 25 of 29 seasons. Thats where dabo swinney ranks alltime in wins among major college coaches at their 50th birthday, dating back to the 1890s.
Best college football teams of all time by winning percentage. Featuring such talent as te jeremy shockey, qb ken dorsey, wr andre johnson and rb clinton portis on an explosive offense, and on defense mike rumph, phillip buchanon, ed reed, vince wilfork, jonathan vilma. Here are the nine schools with the most wins in college football history, using the ncaas official winloss records. With 404 victories in 57 seasons as a black coach in the deep south. Oct 31, 2020 no team in dii history has more wins than pittsburg state, now at 717 wins per the ncaa record book. The 15 greatest dynasties in college football history the. For a brief period of time, penn states joe paterno disappeared from the college football record books. This is a list of college football coaches with 200 career wins. The top 25 head coaches in college football history fox sports. He followed it up with seven consecutive bowl games, six more doubledigit win seasons, four more conference titles and another fiesta bowl win before taking the washington job in 2014. Nick saban, greatest coach ever or greatest college football coach. The hall of famer, who played under bobby knight at army, also won gold at the last three olympics as coach of. The alltime win leaders in the fcs subdivision and divisions ii and iii are the yale bulldogs 862 wins, pittsburg state gorillas 697 wins, and the wittenberg tigers 638 wins, respectively. A total of seventyeight coaches have made the list and still maintained a winning.
The head coach of a football team is one of the most impactful and important. Aug 14, 2017 according to the ncaa, bobby bowden only has 346 wins, the result of having 11 victories vacated. Kentucky football history and records university of. His 171 wins rank as the fourth most among active ncaa fbs head coaches. The 2018 senior class also broke the ncaa record for wins, eclipsing the tides. Mar 25, 2014 paul william bear bryant is probably the most famous college coaching name on this list. Feb 15, 2021 name the college football coaches with at least 100 wins at major schools. Fifteen coaches on the list are considered active for the 2016 season.
Aug 29, 2018 in his first season, he led the broncos to a perfect season and one of the most incredible fiesta bowl victories in college football history. The winningest coaches in college football history liveabout. List of college football coaches with 100 losses wikipedia. Season points, career rebounds, yearly assists, season wins, career wl% college basketball scores unlv 77, duke 79, kentucky 103, duke 104, unc 54, kansas 53, nc state 54, houston 52. During his tenure, penn state won two national titles and five teams enjoyed undefeated seasons. As of the start of the 2020 season, watson brown is the alltime leader in career losses with a total of 211. The college football team with the most wins in history is the. Jock sutherland is one of the few head coaches in college football history to win a national title with more than one school. The coaches with the most wins at one college are gagliardi 465 at saint. The wolverines have accumulated 962 wins since their first season in 1879.
Krzyzewskis 12 final four appearances are also tied for the most in ncaa history. Nebraskas record book does as well, so im going with everyone else here and. Nick saban sets record for most college football national. Just three college football coaches have more than 400 career victories, making them the winningest of all time. He has been a true journeyman throughout his head coaching career. This is a list of the college football teams with the most wins in the history of college football as measured in both total wins and winning percentage, as of january 14, 2021. As a note, records coheld by players, groups of players or teams are not included. Ohio state head coach urban meyer lifts the cfp championship. This was important for every day over that two year period when the paterno sanctions came into effect, as bowden was the winningest coach in college football history.
The 9 college baseball coaches with the most career wins. Other division i football programs were placed in division iaa, which was renamed as fcs in 2006. List of college mens basketball coaches with 600 wins. Jul 21, 2015 in 116 seasons, kentucky has participated in 1, contests and owns 545 wins, 541 losses and 44 ties. Nebraska was once a powerhouse in college football and that was never more evident than during the 1990s when tom osborne, the most successful coach in cornhuskers history, led them to five big 8 titles, one big 12 crown and three national championships. Hes got a factory thats pumping out national championships, heisman trophy winners, and nfl talent. Springfield college, university of chicago, college of the pacific.
Winsipedia list and chartinfographic of schools and teams with the best alltime wins in college football history. The winningest college football coaches of all time. His inventions include the lateral pass, reverse play, huddle and linebacker position, along with some equipment. These are the most eyepopping records in college sports, including barry. Measured in total wins, the michigan wolverines lead all other football programs across all divisions with 964 wins. Nick saban, greatest coach ever or greatest college. The top20 teams in college football history the grueling truth. Of course, the history of notre dame football is replete with rivalries, from. Yes, success begets success and kids want to play for a winner, but it defies logic how a coach who went 66, 65, 75, 66, 92, 84, 103, 85, 1, 93, and then bombed in the nfl showed up at a school with a long history of ncaa infraction cases who wasnt relevant for a decade and turned them into the greatest powerhouse in the history of.
Greatest college football coaches ever stadium talk. However, it is not truly indicative of the most successful coaches at that level because of the criteria used for its compilation. No one in history has won more games as college football coach than john. Jan 07, 2019 entering the 2019 season, two coaches were tied with the most national titles in college football history. He has managed to coach 21 seasons at bigtime programs and won exactly one conference title, going at auburn in 2004 as the tigers were shut out of the bcs championship game. The coaches with the most wins at one college are gagliardi 465 at saint johns, paterno 409 at penn state, robinson 408 at grambling, kehres 332 at mount union, ken sparks 327 at carsonnewman, kidd 314 at eastern kentucky, bowden 304 at florida state and tubby raymond 300 at delaware. Top 10 winningest college football coaches in history. The 15 greatest dynasties in college football history. We see the same college football programs always at the top of the standings. They have won four super bowls, six afc championships, and thirteen division titles. List of undefeated ncaa division i football teams wikipedia.
List of winningest college football teams american. Notre dame is tied with alabama and ohio state for the highest winning percentage in college football history, winning 73 percent of its games. The top 25 head coaches in college football history. Career coaching leaders and records for winloss percentage. The most unbreakable records in fsu football history. Oct 03, 2020 just one fcs football program has topped 900 alltime wins. Alabama football record book university of alabama athletics. They became the sixth ncaa fbs team to win 850 games when they defeated the kansas jayhawks on november 22, 2014. Top alltime majorfbs college football coaches by winning. Feb 15, 2019 college football is certainly serious, and so weve compiled a toast to the cheaters, the 10 most memorable vacated games in ncaa football history. Nebraskas record book does as well, so im going with everyon. Feb 24, 2019 there are many examples of bad coaching hires throughout college football history, but lets take a look at some of the worst we have seen in the past decade. Nick saban surpassed bear bryants record for most ncaa football.
Bear bryant and nick saban each have won the national championship six times in their. The best of the best college football coaches in history. Jan 31, 2020 the college football team with the most wins in history is the university of michigan. Considering wins in division i fbs onlyincluding wins with major.
Mar 27, 2018 just a handful of football coaches can boast career records with more than 300 wins. The 150 greatest coaches in college footballs 150year history espn. Uas 127 wins over the past decade are the most for any fbs school during a. The top 10 winningest college football teams and coaches.
Career leaders and records for wins college football at. Results from the 201819 and 201920 seasons have been added to. Most overrated college football coaches stadium talk. As one of the most storied sports in america, it should come as no surprise that college. Feb 10, 2015 time and time again, we see these powerhouses win championships. Mar 06, 20 hayes was the greatest coach in ohio states history, but his personality and success combined to make him one of the most hated coaches in history. Kentucky football has won one national championship, two southeastern conference championships and appeared in 11 bowls. Those cornhuskers were dominant from 199197, going 788 and 603 from 199397. Kevin donley 326 wins donley has the most wins of any active coach in college football. Two men, the patriots, and how they revolutionized football by michael holley. One of the first great coaches in pro football history, george halas won six nfl.
Jul 08, 2020 stagg is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in college football history. In the past here at, we have searched the individual sport record b. These coaches round out the list of the 10 winningest. Although that only accounted for five wins under coach greg robinson, who is considered one of the worst coaches in the sports history.
More recently, the school went 103 in 2016 under thenhead coach. List of college football coaches with 150 ncaa division i fcs. As a coach, he amassed 314 wins, 2 national championships and seven westernbig ten conference titles. These links direct the user to the division i publications only during that time period. With that in mind, heres a look at 50 of the best books about college football available. The ncaa football records books were separated into two different publications one for division i and one for division ii and iii from 2004 through 2010. Michigan, which is tops in the ncaa record book for total wins, is not. Dave campbells texas football maintains the states most widely respected and cited texas high school football record book. Nov 01, 2010 measured in total wins, the michigan wolverines lead all other football programs across all divisions with 886 wins.
Joe paternos 111 wins that were vacated will be restored. Top10 college football programs of alltime the grueling truth. Rankings are based on winning percentage through the 2019 season at football bowl subdivision schools formerly division ia or. Here are the college football coaches with the most wins by. No coach in the history of college football did less with more than tommy tuberville. Pinkels record with mizzou after his final game on.
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