List of college football coaches with a .750 winning percentage


This is a list of football coaches with a.750 or greater winning percentage. College football coaches who have coached college teams for 10 or more seasons are included in the list. "College level" is defined as a four-year college or university program in either the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics or the National Collegiate Athletic Association. If the team competed at a time before the official organization of either of the two groups, but is generally accepted as a "college football program," it is also included.
Leading the list is Larry Kehres, who compiled a winning percentage while coaching the Mount Union Purple Raiders from 1986 to 2012. The longest tenure among coaches on the list is that of John Gagliardi, who was a head coach from 1949 until retiring after the 2012 season. Gagliardi also leads all listed coaches in total games, wins, and losses. Former Vanderbilt head coach Dan McGugin has the most ties of anyone on the list.

Key

College football coaches with a .750 winning percentage

NameFirst yearLast yearYearsGamesWinsLossesTiesWin %Teams
1986201227359332243Mount Union
1918193013122105125Notre Dame
1939195313129107139Boston College, Notre Dame
1979199416170146231Augustana
'1998201922277237400Mary Hardin–Baylor
19551964109377115Bowling Green
2001201817219186320Bowling Green, Utah, Florida, Ohio State
1987200317136114193Williams
1892190512164139232Penn, Illinois, Carlisle
1945196925244204364Florida A&M
1969198315155129233Wittenberg
1946195914124102184Heidelberg
1973198816190157294Oklahoma
1973199725307255493Nebraska
'200620191411596190Trinity
1957197215154127243Whittier, San Diego State
189919241312097176Cornell, Harvard, Columbia
18981926282451983512Ohio Wesleyan, Nebraska, Kansas, Stanford, San Jose State, Michigan
'2006201914153127260Linfield
19261952212161733112Tennessee
1947196317178145294Oklahoma
'2002201918224184400Morningside
1964198516151123262Indiana , Carnegie Mellon
1981200727301246541Dayton
'1996201924265217480Wittenberg
1931195423209165339Kentucky State, Tennessee State
1948196316128102215Maryland State
1972199019191154343Westminster
1999201315160130300St. Norbert
1980199414152123281Baker
'2003201917192156360Washington & Jefferson
19191938201861442814Lafayette, Pittsburgh
'2008201912147119280CSU–Pueblo
1961199636357287673Central
'2008201912161130310Clemson
1957197216173136307Wyoming, Nebraska
1990200920247198472Pittsburg State
19351953109071163Albright, Syracuse, Michigan State
194419541010281192Miami , Cincinnati
'1997201923231185460Wartburg
1996201924261209520Wheaton
'2006201914165132330St. Thomas
1999201618238190480Oklahoma
2002201413148118300North Central
1925194619183141339Chattanooga, Alabama
2006201914185147380Boise State, Washington
1952197120163127315Westminster
1976200328277219571Bethany
1955197117155121313Nebraska–Kearney
1983199614135105273Albion
1993201725291229611Wesley
1968199124234183483Linfield
'1990201924309243651Toledo, Michigan State, LSU, Alabama
18911921231871413412Army, Minnesota
1950196723175133339William Jewell
19061938332421824515North Dakota Agricultural, Washington, Navy, Cornell, Boston College
19451982384253238517Maryland, Kentucky, Texas A&M, Alabama
1970198819202155425UC Davis
1933194712102741711Arkansas Tech
1936196823221168458Western Reserve, Vanderbilt, Wittenberg
1963198927307234658Miami , Michigan
194920126463848913811Carroll , Saint John's
1895191519141106296Colorado, Dartmouth
'201020191012395280Grand Valley State
1980201636439338992Carson–Newman
1969199931343261757Wisconsin–La Crosse
1946196822192146424Northern State
'1997201923265204610Georgetown
19371967312641975512Missouri Valley
1930194718157116329Minnesota, Princeton, Michigan
1909192416144106299Lafayette, Washington & Jefferson, Penn, Navy
19231950242301714910Alabama, Duke
1990201021225172530Hardin–Simmons
1958197922231176541Arizona State
1934194814145107317Catawba
19041934302711975519Vanderbilt
1929194113109782110Michigan State, Fordham
19091925171611163213Penn, Purdue, California
198719981213190274John Carroll
19461978333202387210Denison, Miami , Ohio State
19341958252281664814Dartmouth, Army
'200720191111688280Thomas More, Baldwin Wallace
'2010201910132100320Florida State, Texas A&M
19521983323212377212Jackson State, Tennessee State
1945196622191141437Muskingum
19091933181681213512Texas A&M, Centre, Bucknell, Catawba
1982201127319240772Washington & Jefferson, California
1962200340406303967Parsons , Lea, Pacific Lutheran
'2006201914159120390Tuskegee
1984201225283213691West Chester, Bloomsburg
1995200713162122400Michigan
196019731412996312Morgan State
193719481110678253West Tennessee State, Mississippi State
2004201915168126420Central

Note: As of the end of the 2010 season, Jim Tressel, who served as the head football coach for Youngstown State and Ohio State, had a career record of 241–79–2 for a winning percentage of.752. In July 2011, Ohio State vacated all 12 of its wins from the 2010 season, dropping Tressel's career record to 229–79–2 and his winning percentage to.742.

Active coaches near a .750 winning percentage

NameFirst yearLast yearYearsGamesWinsLossesTiesWin %Teams
'2013201978470140Saint John's
'20062019910680260Marietta, Minnesota–Duluth
'20112019911889290Northwest Missouri State, Abilene Christian
'1997201923187140470Amherst
1999201917198148500Wisconsin–Eau Claire, Minnesota State

College football coaches with an .850 winning percentage

The main list set forth above is limited to coaches with 10 years of experience as a head coach. This list supplements the main list by identifying coaches who are omitted from the main list because they have not coached 10 years, but who have achieved a winning percentage of.850 or higher while coaching a minimum of five seasons or 50 games.
NameFirst yearLast yearYearsGamesWinsLossesTiesWin %Teams
'200520095706730Sioux Falls, Fresno State
2013201971019560Mount Union
188818957877953Yale, Stanford
194719515423840Bloomsburg
190219185201820Central Michigan
190519158423525Morehouse
196619727696171North Dakota State
'201520195665790Wisconsin–Whitewater
190019056635382Nebraska
191119155342950Michigan State
201520195615290North Central