This is a list of college football coaches with 100 career losses. "College level" is defined as a four-year

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. 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 would also be included. Individuals indicated in bold type are expected to remain coaching in the next college football season of 2016. The List of coaches is current as of the end of the 2015 season.

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Active coaches

Fifteen coaches on the list are considered "active" for the 2016 season.

Most total losses

As of the start of the 2020 season,

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is the all-time leader in career losses with a total of 211.

Win percentage

John Gagliardi John Gagliardi ( ; November 1, 1926 – October 7, 2018) was an American football coach. He was the head football coach at Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, from 1953 until 2012. From 1949 to 1952, he was the head footbal ...

leads the list in terms of winning percentage at .775. A total of seventy-eight coaches have made the list and still maintained a winning percentage of .500 or above as of 2015. A. C. Burcky has the lowest winning percentage on the list with .293, having only 41 wins, 110 losses, and 16 ties.

List of college football coaches with 100 losses

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