Joe Paterno
Joe Paterno was the brilliant head coach at the Penn State Nittany Lions from 1966 to 2011. With 409 victories to his name, Paterno is the most victorious coach in NCAA FBS history. He didn’t leave much room for anyone to compete, really.
It was a sad day for everyone in the football world when he passed away in 2012. He will always be remembered for saying, “When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.”
Barry Switzer
For 16 years, Barry Switzer was head football coach at the University of Oklahoma and four years as head coach for the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys. While in the NFL, he and the Cowboys won Super Bowl XXX against the Steelers.
Switzer has one of the highest winning percentages of any college football coach in history(!), and is one of just three head coaches to win both a college football national championship and a Super Bowl, (the others being Jimmy Johnson and Pete Carroll).