College Football’s Best Coaches of All Time

Published on 05/03/2018
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Jimmy Johnson

Get this, Johnson was the first and only one of three football coaches to lead teams to both a major college football championship and a Super Bowl (the others are Barry Switzer and Pete Carroll).

Jimmy Johnson

Jimmy Johnson

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When he was a head football coach, he worked at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater from 1979 to 1983 and the University of Miami from 1984 to 1988.

Lou Holtz

Holtz’s career took him to land the head football coach position at The College of William & Mary, North Carolina State University, the University of Arkansas, the University of Minnesota, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of South Carolina, snagging a career record of 249–132–7. While with Norte Dame, in 1988, the team went 12–0 grabbing a victory in the Fiesta Bowl and was the consensus national champion.

Lou Holtz

Lou Holtz

Holtz is also the only college football coach to lead six different programs to bowl games AND is the only coach to guide four different programs to the final top 20 rankings.

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