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Ed Orgeron

Edward James Orgeron Jr. (born July 27, 1961) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head coach at Louisiana State University (LSU). 
Orgeron previously served as the head football coach at University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) from 2005 to 2007 and was the interim head coach at the University of Southern California (USC) in 2013.

Jon Gruden

Jon David Gruden (born August 17, 1963) is an American football coach who is the head coach of the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He first served as the Raiders' head coach from 1998 to 2001 and rejoined the team in 2018. In between his tenure with the Raiders, he was the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 2002 to 2008, which he led to the franchise's first Super Bowl title in XXXVII. At the time, Gruden, aged 39 years, 5 months and 9 days, was the youngest head coach to win a Super Bowl. Gruden also served as an analyst for ESPN and Monday Night Football before he returned to coaching.

Chris Petersen

Christopher Scott Petersen (born October 13, 1964) is an American football coach, currently head coach at the University of Washington. Previously the head coach for eight seasons at Boise State University, Petersen guided the Broncos to two BCS bowl wins: the 2007 and 2010 Fiesta Bowls. He is the first two-time winner of the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award, which he won in 2006 and 2009. Petersen also won the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award in 2010. At Washington, Petersen led the Huskies to the College Football Playoff in 2016, but fell to Alabama in the Peach Bowl.

Jeff Fisher

Jeffrey Michael "Jeff" Fisher (born February 25, 1958) is a former American football coach and player. He served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for 22 seasons, primarily with the Houston / Tennessee Oilers / Titans franchise. He coached the Titans for 17 seasons and the St Louis / Los Angeles Rams for five seasons.
Fisher became the coach of the Titans towards the end of the 1994 season during their tenure as the Houston Oilers and was the team's first coach when they relocated to Tennessee. He continued to coach the Titans until after the end of the 2010 season when the Titans and Fisher mutually agreed to part ways. Following a season away from football, Fisher was hired as the head coach of the Rams in 2012 and coached the team during their last four years in St. Louis. He remained the head coach of the Rams during the franchise's return to Los Angeles in 2016, but was fired near the end of the season.Fisher's most successful season was in 1999, when he led the Titans to the franchise's first (and only) Super Bowl appearance in XXXIV, which ended in close defeat by the St. Louis Rams for their first Super Bowl title. However, despite compiling a winning record as a head coach, Fisher's career has been noted for an overall lack of success, having only obtained six winning seasons and postseason appearances in over two decades in the NFL. He holds the record for the most regular-season losses by an NFL head coach at 165, tied with Dan Reeves.

Steve Sarkisian

Stephen Ambrose Sarkisian (born March 8, 1974) is an American football coach and former player who is the current offensive coordinator for Alabama Crimson Tide of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). He was previously the offensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL) He has also served as the head football coach of the University of Washington from 2009 to 2013 and at the University of Southern California (USC) from 2014 to 2015. He played college football as a quarterback at Brigham Young University (BYU) and professionally with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

James Franklin

James Franklin may refer to:

James Franklin (printer) (1697–1735), elder brother of Benjamin Franklin
James Franklin (naturalist) (1783–1834), British naturalist
Jim Franklin (artist) (born 1943), American poster artist
James Franklin (philosopher) (born 1953), Australian historian of ideas and philosopher
James Franklin (American football coach) (born 1972), American football coach at Penn State University
James Franklin (quarterback) (born 1991), American football quarterback
James Franklin (cricketer) (born 1980), New Zealand cricketer
James Franklin (meteorologist), American meteorologist
Jim Franklin (director), British television director

Kevin Sumlin

Kevin Warren Sumlin (born August 3, 1964) is an American college football coach. He is currently the head football coach at the University of Arizona, a position he has held since 2018. Sumlin served as the head football coach at the University of Houston from 2008 to 2011 and Texas A&M University from 2012 to 2017.

Jack Del Rio

Jack Louis Del Rio Jr. (born April 4, 1963) is a former American football coach and player. He played linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for five NFL teams between 1985–1996. He played college football at the University of Southern California.
Del Rio began his coaching career as an assistant strength and linebacker coach with the New Orleans Saints. He was the linebacker coach on the Super Bowl XXXV-winning Baltimore Ravens, and defensive coordinator on the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos. He served as head coach of the league's Jacksonville Jaguars from 2003 until 2011, the second in team history, and took a second head coaching job with the Oakland Raiders, in January 2015. Del Rio was fired in 2017 after three seasons with the team.

Lovie Smith

Lovie Lee Smith (born May 8, 1958) is an American football coach.  He is the head football coach at the University of Illinois. He was previously the head coach of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL) from 2004 to 2012, and the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 2014 to 2015. Smith has been to the Super Bowl twice, as the defensive coordinator for the St. Louis Rams and as the head coach for the Bears in 2006.

Pep Hamilton

Alfonza "Pep" Hamilton (born September 19, 1974) is an American football coach who currently serves as head coach and general manager of the DC Defenders.

Al Golden

Alfred James Golden Jr. (born July 4, 1969) is an American football coach who is currently the linebackers coach for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He is a former head coach at Temple from 2006 to 2010. He has also served for five years as defensive coordinator at Virginia (2001–2005) and five years as the head coach at University of Miami (2011–2015). He is also a former tight end for the New England Patriots of the NFL. He was fired from Miami on October 25, 2015.

Tim DeRuyter

Timothy James DeRuyter ( də-ROO-tər; born January 3, 1963) is an American football coach and former player. He is the defensive coordinator of the California Golden Bears, and prior to that he was the head football coach of the Fresno State Bulldogs, a position he held from 2012 to 2016.

Pat Fitzgerald

Patrick William Fitzgerald Jr. (born (1974-12-02)December 2, 1974) is the current head coach of the Northwestern University Wildcats football team. He was selected after the unexpected death of Randy Walker and announced at a press conference on July 7, 2006. He was 31 at the time, making him the youngest head football coach in the Big Ten Conference and NCAA Division I FBS by five years. As a linebacker for Northwestern from 1993 to 1996, he won both the Bronko Nagurski Trophy and Chuck Bednarik Award twice as the best defensive player in college football. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008.

Gary Patterson

Gary Allen Patterson (born February 13, 1960) is an American football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at Texas Christian University and the winningest coach in Horned Frogs' history. Patterson has led the TCU Horned Frogs to six conference championships—one Conference USA title in 2002; four Mountain West Conference titles in 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2011; and one Big 12 Conference title in 2014—and nine bowl game victories—including victories in the 2011 Rose Bowl and 2014 Peach Bowl.  His 2010 squad finished the season undefeated at 13–0 after a 21–19 Rose Bowl victory over the Wisconsin Badgers on New Year's Day 2011, and ranked second in the final tallying of both major polls. He is currently the second longest tenured coach with one FBS program, only behind Kirk Ferentz of the University of Iowa.

Mike Riley

Michael Joseph Riley (born July 6, 1953) is an American football coach and former player who most recently served as the head coach of the San Antonio Commanders of the Alliance of American Football. Riley previously served as the football coach at Nebraska from 2015 to 2017.
Riley has also coached in several professional leagues, serving as head coach of the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1999 to 2001 and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 1987 to 1990.
Riley is the oldest son of Bud Riley (1925–2012), a head coach in the CFL and college football assistant at the University of Idaho and Oregon State.

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