This is a list of college football coaches with 20 ties.

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coaches who have coached college teams to 20 or more tie games are included in the list. College football has since established tiebreaking rules—the last tie game at the top level of college football occurred on November 25, 1995, between

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and

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. Without a change in game rules, no new members will be added to this list, and there are no active efforts to repeal tiebreaking rules. "College level" is defined as a four-year

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program in either the

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or the

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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.

Summary

This section considers only coaches who appear on the list.

Tenure

The coach with the longest tenure is

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, who coached for 55 seasons and 555 games. Coach Stagg and Glenn "Pop" Warner are the only two entrants who began coaching before 1900, while no entrant was active after the 1954 season.

Butch Cowell William Harold "Butch" Cowell (July 21, 1887 – August 28, 1940) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He is best known for his tenure as head coach of the New Hampshire Wildcats football team from 1 ...

had the shortest tenure, at 21 years. Cowell and

Howard Hancock Howard Joseph Hancock (December 20, 1894 – February 12, 1978) was an American football and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Oshkosh State Normal School—now known as the University of Wi ...

had the fewest games coached, at 180 each.

Percentages

Howard Jones registered the highest

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, at 73.3%, while

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has the lowest winning percentage, at 49.6%, the only coach below 50%. Coach Hancock recorded the highest percentage of tie games, at 14.4%. A total of five coaches produced at least one tie game out of every ten games played (10%). Coach Stagg had the lowest percentage of tie games, at 6.3%.

College football coaches with 20 (or more) career ties

Notes

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