COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHES WINNING PERCENTAGE 
Win half of your games, and that means you lost half of your games – duh. Fans don’t like it when their teams lose half of their games.Win six out of every ten might sound okay, but – triple duh – that means you lost four, and people get mad at that, too.But it’s actually hard to win 60% of your games as a college football head coach. 65%? Forget it – only 26 current coaches have been able to do that.
Lose three out of every ten games – again, fans tend to focus on those three losses instead of the seven wins – and you’re amazing. Get to 80% and you’re doing the impossible.
You’re walking among the gods – even if you lose to That Team Up North in each of the last three seasons.Along with the current coaches with the most FBS wins, this is a straight list.
For a deeper dive, click on the links for the college football head coach rankings by conference. One final note: If a coach was an interim head man, or got fired part of the way through the season, he gets credit for half of a season.
2024 CFN Coach Ranks By ConferenceAAC | ACC | Big Ten | Big 12 | CUSAIND | MAC | M-West | SEC | Sun Belt- Top 10 Hot Seat Coaches- 1-134 Current Coaches By Wins 1 Ryan Day, Ohio State 87.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 5.52 Kirby Smart,
Georgia 85.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 83 Jon Sumrall, Tulane 85.2%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 24 Curt Cignetti, Indiana 82.6%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 25 Dan Lanning, Oregon 81.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 2T6 Lincoln Riley, USC 80.4%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 7T6 Kalen DeBoer, Alabama 80.4%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 48 Dabo Swinney, Clemson 79.8%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 15.59 Spencer Danielson,
Boise State 75.0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 0.510 Jeff Traylor, UTSA 73.6%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 411 Josh Heupel, Tennessee 73.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 612 Brian Kelly, LSU 72.9%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 2013 Marcus Freeman, Notre Dame 70.4%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 2 T14 Luke Fickell, Wisconsin 69.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 8T14 Jamey Chadwell, Liberty 69.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 616 Mike Norvell,
Florida State 68.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 817 Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State 67.8%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1918 James Franklin, Penn State 67.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1319 Kyle Whittingham,
Utah 67.2%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1920 Lane Kiffin, Ole Miss 66.4%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 11.521 Billy Napier, Florida 66.2%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 722 Shawn Clark, Appalachian State 66.0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 423 Tom Herman, Florida Atlantic 65.9%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 724 Mack Brown, North Carolina 65.7%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 3525 Gus Malzahn, UCF 65.2%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1226 Jason Candle, Toledo 65.0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 8 27 Eliah Drinkwitz, Missouri 64.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 528 Rhett Lashlee, SMU 64.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 229 Mike Elko,
Texas A&M 64.0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 230 Hugh Freeze, Auburn 63.8%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1131 Dave Doeren, NC State 62.7%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 13T32 Bronco Mendenhall, New Mexico 62.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 17T32 Bill O’Brien, Boston College 62.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 234 Kirk Ferentz, Iowa 62.2%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 2635 Ryan Silverfield, Memphis 62.0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 436 Chris Klieman, Kansas State 61.9%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 537 Jeff Tedford, Fresno State 61.7%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 16T38 Brent Venables, Oklahoma 61.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 2T38 David Braun,
Northwestern 61.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1T38 Tim Beck, Coastal Carolina 61.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1T38 GJ Kinne, Texas State 61.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1T42 Troy Calhoun, Air Force 61.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 17T42 Jeff Brohm, Louisville 61.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1044 Tyson Helton, WKU 60.6%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 545 Scott Satterfield, Cincinnati 60.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1046 Clay Helton, Georgia Southern 60.4%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 8 47 Bret Bielema,
Illinois 59.9%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1548 Kalani Sitake, BYU 59.8%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 849 Neal Brown, West Virginia 59.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 950 Rich Rodriguez, Jacksonville State 59.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1751 Steve Sarkisian, Texas 59.2%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 9.552 Tim Albin,
Ohio 59.0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 353 PJ Fleck, Minnesota 58.8%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1154 Matt Campbell, Iowa State 58.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1255 Manny Diaz, Duke 58.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 3T56 Joey McGuire, Texas Tech 57.7%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 257 Major Applewhite, South Alabama 57.7%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 258 Jim McElwain, Central Michigan 57.0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 10.5T59 Ken Niumatalolo, San Jose State 56.8%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 15T59 Willie Fritz,
Houston 56.8%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 10 61 Pat Narduzzi, Pitt 56.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 962 Charles Huff, Marshall 56.4%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 363 Jeff Monken, Army 56%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1064 Sonny Dykes,
TCU 55.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1365 Don Brown, UMass 54.7%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 266 Jim Mora, UConn 54.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 867 Butch Jones, Arkansas State 54.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 14T68 Alex Golesh, USF 53.8%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1T68 Bryant Vincent, ULM 53.8%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 170 Pete Lembo, Buffalo 53.2%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 571 Barry Odom, UNLV 53.1%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 572 Mark Stoops, Kentucky 52.9%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1173 Shane Beamer, South Carolina 52.6%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 374 Brent Key, Georgia Tech 52.4%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1.575 Matt Rhule,
Nebraska 51.0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 876 Dave Clawson, Wake Forest 50.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1577 Mario Cristobal, Miami 50.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1278 Lance Leipold, Kansas 50.0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 9 79 Jay Norvell, Colorado State 49.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 780 Jonathan Smith, Michigan State 49.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 6T81 Blake Anderson, Utah State 48.4%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 10T81 Jake Dickert, Washington State 48.4%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 2.583 Michael Desormeaux,
Louisiana 48.1%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 284 Sam Pittman, Arkansas 47.9%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 485 Dave Aranda, Baylor 47.9%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 486 Greg Schiano, Rutgers 47.8%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1587 Chuck Martin, Miami University 47.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1088 Justin Wilcox, Cal 45.6%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 7T89 Sean Lewis, San Diego State 43.6%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 5T89 Jedd Fisch, Washington 43.6%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 391 Chris Creighton,
Eastern Michigan 43.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1092 Thomas Hammock, Northern Illinois 42.1%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 5T93 Brent Pry, Virginia Tech 41.7%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 2T93 Brian Newberry, Navy 41.7%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1T93 Eric Morris,
North Texas 41.7%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 196 Brent Brennan, Arizona 41.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 797 Mike Houston, East Carolina 41.4%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 598 Mike MacIntyre, FIU 40.0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 11 99 Mike Neu, Ball State 39.8%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 8100 Ricky Rahne, Old Dominion 39.5%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 3101 Scot Loeffler,
Bowling Green 36.4%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 5102 Joe Moorhead, Akron 36.0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 4103 Kevin Wilson, Tulsa 35.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 7104 Will Hall,
Southern Miss 35.1%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 3105 Mike Locksley, Maryland 34.4%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 8T106 Tony Sanchez, New Mexico State 33.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 5T106 Trent Dilfer, UAB 33.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1T106 Deion Sanders, Colorado 33.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1T106 Ryan Walters,
Purdue 33.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1T106 Lance Taylor, Western Michigan 33.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1111 Derek Mason, Middle Tennessee 32.9%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 6.5112 Mike Bloomgren,
Rice 32.4%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 6113 Timmy Chang, Hawaii 30.8%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 2 114 Sonny Cumbie, Louisiana Tech 27.6%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 2.5115 Tony Elliott, Virginia 27.3%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 2T116 Clark Lea, Vanderbilt 25.0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 3T116 Stan Drayton, Temple 25.0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 2T116 Troy Taylor,
Stanford 25.0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1T116 Biff Poggi, Charlotte 25.0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1T116 Kenny Dillingham, Arizona State 25.0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1T116 KC Keeler, Sam Houston 25.0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1T116 Scott Walden, UTEP 25.0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 0.5123 Kenni Burns, Kent State 0.83%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 1 124 Gerad Parker, Troy 0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 0.5T125 Brian Bohannon,
Kennesaw State 0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 0T125 Trent Bray, Oregon State 0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 0T125 Fran Brown, Syracuse 0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 0T125 Bob Chesney,
James Madison 0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 0T125 Jeff Choate, Nevada 0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 0T125 DeShaun Foster, UCLA 0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 0T125 Jeff Lebby,
Mississippi State 0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 0T125 Dell McGee, Georgia State 0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 0T125 Sherrone Moore, Michigan 0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 0T125 Jay Sawvel
, Wyoming 0%Seasons as an FBS Head Coach: 02024 CFN Coach Ranks By ConferenceAAC | ACC | Big Ten | Big 12 | CUSA IND | MAC | M-West | SEC | Sun Belt- Top 10 Hot Seat Coaches- 1-134 Current Coaches By Wins
