College Football Coaches With the Most Wins: Ranking All 136 Coaches

College Football Coaches With the Most Wins: Ranking All 136 Coaches originally appeared on College Football News.

How many wins do all the current college football head coaches have?

Check that – how many wins as an FBS head coach did they all come up with? We’re not counting wins at the lower levels of college football or in the NFL.

With Mack Brown retiring, there’s a new guy on top as the winningest current coach in college football, but it took him a long time to get there. 

Here’s the ranking of all 136 coaches from the winningest stars down to the new guys getting their first shot at running a big-time program.

The college football coaches with the most FBS wins are …

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Winningest College Football Coaches 2025: Ranking All 136 Active FBS Head Coaches By Wins

Top 10 Winningest Active Football Coaches

1 Kirk Ferentz, Iowa 204
2 Brian Kelly, LSU 195
3 Dabo Swinney, Clemson 180
4 Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State 169
5 Kyle Whittingham, Utah 167
6 Rich Rodriguez, West Virginia 136
7 Troy Calhoun, Air Force 135
T8 Bret Bielema, Illinois 125
T8 James Franklin, Penn State 125
10 Ken Niumatalolo, San Jose State 116

Coaches Ranked 11 to 25 by Total Wins

11 Dave Doeren, NC State 110
T12 Lane Kiffin, Ole Miss 105
T12 Kirby Smart, Georgia 105
T14 Dan Mullen, UNLV 103
T14 Butch Jones, Arkansas State 103
16 Matt Campbell, Iowa State 99
17 Sonny Dykes, TCU 98
18 Greg Schiano, Rutgers 94
19 Hugh Freeze, Auburn 93
20 PJ Fleck, Minnesota 88
21 Jeff Brohm, Louisville 85
22 Mario Cristobal, Miami 84
23 Steve Sarkisian, Texas 83
24 Jeff Monken, Army 82
25 Lincoln Riley, USC 81

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College Football Head Coaches With 30 to 80 Wins

26 Scott Satterfield, Cincinnati 80
27 Mark Stoops, Kentucky 77
28 Luke Fickell, Wisconsin 76
29 Willie Fritz, Houston 75
30 Jason Candle, Toledo 73

T31 Pat Narduzzi, Pitt 72
T31 Kalani Sitake, BYU 72
33 Mike Norvell, Florida State 71
34 Ryan Day, Ohio State 70
35 Clay Helton, Georgia Southern 66
T36 Chuck Martin, Miami University 65
T36 Josh Heupel, Tennessee 65
38 Jim Mora, UConn 64
39 Jamey Chadwell, Liberty 60
T40 Lance Leipold, Kansas 59
T40 Matt Rhule, Nebraska 59
T40 Billy Napier, Florida 59

43 Chris Creighton, Eastern Michigan 57
44 Eliah Drinkwitz, Missouri 50
45 Jay Norvell, Colorado State 49
T46 Chris Klieman, Kansas State 48
T46 Tyson Helton, WKU 48
T48 Jeff Traylor, UTSA 46
T48 Kalen DeBoer, Alabama 46
50 Barry Odom, Purdue 44

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T48 Justin Wilcox, Cal 42
T48 Ryan Silverfield, Memphis 42
T48 Pete Lembo, Buffalo 42
54 Jonathan Smith, Michigan State 39
55 Brent Brennan, Arizona 38
T56 Scott Frost, UCF 35
T56 Mike Locksley, Maryland 35
T56 Dan Lanning, Oregon 35
59 Tim Albin, Charlotte 33

T60 Jon Sumrall, Tulane 32
T60 Thomas Hammock, Northern Illinois 32
T60 Charles Huff, Southern Miss 32
T63 Dave Aranda, Baylor 31
T63 Marcus Freeman, Notre Dame 31
T65 Manny Diaz, Duke 30
T65 Curt Cignetti, Indiana 30
T65 Derek Mason, Middle Tennessee 30
T65 Sam Pittman, Arkansas 30

Best of the Rest: Coaches Just Getting Started

T69 Rhett Lashlee, SMU 29
T69 Shane Beamer, South Carolina 29
71 Sean Lewis, San Diego State 27
72 Mike Elko, Texas A&M 24
T73 Jake Dickert, Wake Forest 23
T73 Joey McGuire, Texas Tech 23
T73 Jedd Fisch, Washington 23
T73 Tony Sanchez, New Mexico State 23
T73 Michael Desormeaux, Louisiana 23
T78 Bill O’Brien, Boston College 22
T78 Joe Moorhead, Akron 22
T78 Brent Venables, Oklahoma 22
T78 Major Applewhite, South Alabama 22

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82 Ricky Rahne, Old Dominion 20
T83 Brent Key, Georgia Tech 18
T83 Brent Pry, Virginia Tech 16
T83 Clark Lea, Vanderbilt 16
T83 GJ Kinne, Texas State 16
T87 Brian Newberry, Navy 15
T87 Spencer Danielson, Boise State 15
T89 Alex Golesh, USF 14
T89 Kenny Dillingham, Arizona State 14
T89 Tim Beck, Coastal Carolina 14

T92 Deion Sanders, Colorado 13
T92 Sonny Cumbie, Louisiana Tech 13
T92 Timmy Chang, Hawaii 13
T95 KC Keeler, Temple 12
T95 David Braun, Northwestern 12
T95 Bryant Vincent, ULM 12
T98 Tony Elliott, Virginia 11
T98 Eric Morris, North Texas 11

T100 Fran Brown, Syracuse 10
T100 Lance Taylor, Western Michigan 10
T100 Sherrone Moore, Michigan 9
T100 Bob Chesney, James Madison 9
104 Trent Dilfer, UAB 7
T105 Blake Harrell, East Carolina 5
T105 DeShaun Foster, UCLA 5
T105 Trent Bray, Oregon State 5
T108 Scott Walden, UTEP 4
T108 Gerad Parker, Troy 4
T110 Jeff Choate, Nevada 3
T110 Jay Sawvel, Wyoming 3
T110 Dell McGee, Georgia State 3
113 Jeff Lebby, Mississippi State 2
114 Brian Smith, Ohio 1

T115 Scott Abell, Rice 0
T115 Bill Belichick, North Carolina 0
T115 Mark Carney, Kent State 0
T115 Ryan Carty, Delaware 0
T115 Nate Drieling, Utah State 0
T115 Matt Drinkall, Central Michigan 0
T115 Jason Eck, New Mexico 0
T115 Matt Entz, Fresno State 0
T115 Eddie George, Bowling Green 0
T115 Tony Gibson, Marshall 0
T115 Joe Harasymiak, UMass 0
T115 Charles Kelly, Jacksonville State 0
T115 Zach Kittley, Florida Atlantic 0
T115 Tre Lamb, Tulsa 0
T115 Dowell Loggains, App State 0
T115 Phil Longo, Sam Houston 0
T115 Jerry Mack, Kennesaw State 0
T115 Frank Reich, Stanford 0
T115 Tony Sanchez, New Mexico State 0
T115 Jimmy Rogers, Washington State 0
T115 Willie Simmons, FIU 0
T115 Mike Uremovich, Ball State 0

All 136 Team Previews 
ACC | Big Ten | Big 12 | SEC | AAC | CUSA
ND & UConn | MAC | MWest | Pac-12 | Sun Belt

This story was originally reported by College Football News on Aug 7, 2025, where it first appeared.