Alabama lost Nick Saban to retirement, leaving North Carolina’s Mack Brown as the only active college football coach among the top 10 in career wins. Below is a look at the careers of the two hall of famers and the rest of the 10 winningest coaches of all time, a list that features some of the game’s greatest innovators, biggest personalities and strongest leaders.
“It all goes back to helping the players, but individual players being successful makes the team more successful,” Saban said of what it takes to be a great coach. “Everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team. So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.”
In the 155-year history of college football, just 18 coaches have won 200+ career games, while only four have won more than 300. Only one has crossed the 400-win threshold.
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Here are the top 10 winningest coaches in college football history:
