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Worst College Football Coaches of All Time
The worst college football coaches of all time are those select few men who were given the chance to coach a major NCAA Football team and failed miserably. These bad college football coaches may have seen some success at one point in their coaching careers but also gave the world some of the worst college football coaching performances in history.
Though it was not for anything he did on the field, an argument could be made that Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant coach for the Penn State Nittany Lions, is perhaps the worst person to ever join the college football coaching ranks following his child sex abuse scandal that rocked the world of college football in 2012.
As far as on the field reasons, there are plenty of college football coaches who earned spots on this list for their poor performance. No one will forget how Rich Rodriguez brought college football's winningest program, the Michigan Wolverines, to its knees during his brief period as head coach from 2008 to 2010 or the disappointment that Charlie Weis brought to the acclaimed Notre Dame Fighting Irish during his five-year coaching experiment from 2005 to 2009.
Going even deeper into the record books, we can also include those who tallied the worst win-loss records as NCAA Football coaches ever. Rick Venturi is a great example of that when he won only one game over three seasons when he coached the Northwestern Wildcats in the late 1970s.
So for however you choose to select the worst college football coaches ever, be it the disappointment they brought to your program or the complete shame they brought to the sport by their off-field actions, there is no shortage of names that can be added to this list of worst college football coaches. Want more coaching fails? Check out the worst NFL coaches of all time too!
Though it was not for anything he did on the field, an argument could be made that Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant coach for the Penn State Nittany Lions, is perhaps the worst person to ever join the college football coaching ranks following his child sex abuse scandal that rocked the world of college football in 2012.
As far as on the field reasons, there are plenty of college football coaches who earned spots on this list for their poor performance. No one will forget how Rich Rodriguez brought college football's winningest program, the Michigan Wolverines, to its knees during his brief period as head coach from 2008 to 2010 or the disappointment that Charlie Weis brought to the acclaimed Notre Dame Fighting Irish during his five-year coaching experiment from 2005 to 2009.
Going even deeper into the record books, we can also include those who tallied the worst win-loss records as NCAA Football coaches ever. Rick Venturi is a great example of that when he won only one game over three seasons when he coached the Northwestern Wildcats in the late 1970s.
So for however you choose to select the worst college football coaches ever, be it the disappointment they brought to your program or the complete shame they brought to the sport by their off-field actions, there is no shortage of names that can be added to this list of worst college football coaches. Want more coaching fails? Check out the worst NFL coaches of all time too!
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Lane Kiffin
1975 - 2Up 24Down 51944
- 3Up 17Down 21956
- 4Up 15Down 2
John L. Smith
1948 - 5Up 17Down 4
Gene Chizik
1961 - 6Up 12Down 2
Bill Callahan
1956 - 7Up 15Down 5
Rich Rodriguez
1963 - 8Up 13Down 5
Ron Zook
1954 - 9Up 10Down 4
Mike Shula
1965 - 10Up 7Down 2
Greg Robinson
1951 - 11Up 5Down 0
Dan Hawkins
1960 - 12Up 8Down 3
Tommy Bowden
1954 - 13Up 9Down 4
Larry Coker
1948 - 14Up 7Down 3
Gary Crowton
1957 - 15Up 6Down 2
Ed Orgeron
1961 - 16Up 5Down 1
Gerry DiNardo
1952 - 17Up 5Down 2
Steve Kragthorpe
1965 - 18Up 4Down 1
John Mackovic
1943 - 19Up 4Down 1
Paul Hackett
1947 - 20Up 4Down 1
Ron Cooper
1962added by: KingCarythe1st - 21Up 4Down 1
Hal Mumme
1952 - 22Up 4Down 1
John Blake
1961 - 23Up 3Down 0
Jennings B. Whitworth
1908 - 24Up 3Down 0
Terry Shea
- 25Up 3Down 0
Rick Venturi
1946 - 26Up 3Down 0
Kevin Steele
1958 - 27Up 3Down 1
Ron Prince
1969 - 28Up 6Down 6
Tyrone Willingham
1953 - 29Up 3Down 3
Karl Dorrell
1963 - 30Up 2Down 3
Mike Locksley
1969 - 31Up 1Down 3
Paul Wulff
1967 -
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