This is a list of College Football Hall of Fame members who have been inducted as

coaches Coach may refer to: Guidance/instruction * Coach (sport), a director of athletes' training and activities * Coaching, the practice of guiding an individual through a process ** Acting coach, a teacher who trains performers Transportation * Coac ...

. As of the 2017 inductions, 214 individuals have been inducted as coaches since the College Football Hall of Fame was established in 1951.

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Active coaches

Six individuals have coached as College Football Hall of Fame inductees: * John Ralston was inducted in 1992 following his tenures with Utah State (1959–1962) and Stanford (1963–1971). He came out of retirement in 1993 to coach

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and remained active through the 1996 season. *

Chris Ault Christopher Thomas Ault (born November 8, 1946) is a former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served three stints at the head football coach at the University of Nevada, Reno (1976–1992, 1994–1995 and 200 ...

was inducted in 2002 following two stints with

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(1976–1992 and 1994–1995). He returned as head coach at Nevada from 2004 to 2012. *

Bobby Bowden Robert Cleckler Bowden (; November 8, 1929 – August 8, 2021) was an American college football coach. Bowden coached the Florida State Seminoles of Florida State University (FSU) from 1976 to 2009 and is considered one of the greatest college ...

was inducted in 2006 and remained active as a head coach with

Florida State Florida State University (FSU) is a public university, public research university in Tallahassee, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1851, it is located on the oldest continuous site of higher e ...

until his retirement in 2009. *

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 footba ...

was also inducted in 2006 and remained active with Saint John's in

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until he retired in 2012. *

Joe Paterno Joseph Vincent Paterno (; December 21, 1926 – January 22, 2012), sometimes referred to as JoePa, was an American college football player, athletic director, and coach. He was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions from 1966 to 2 ...

was inducted in 2007 and remained as a head coach at Penn State until he was fired during the 2011 season. *

Bill Snyder William D. Snyder (born October 7, 1939) is a retired college football coach and former player. He served as the head football coach at Kansas State University from 1989 to 2005 and again from 2009 to 2018. Snyder initially retired from the p ...

was inducted in 2015 as an active head coach for the Kansas State Wildcats. He remained Kansas State's head coach though the 2018 season.

Time frame

Walter Camp Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". Among a long list of inventions, he created the sport's line of scrimmage and the system ...

first became a head coach in 1888 and is the earliest on the list to be named a head coach.

Lloyd Carr Lloyd Henry Carr Jr. (born July 30, 1945) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Michigan from 1995 through the 2007 season. Under Carr, the Michigan Wolverines compiled a record ...

first became a head coach in 1995 and is the most recent head coach appointee on the list. Edward K. Hall was a head coach for only two years, in 1892 and 1893, while

was head coach for 64 years before retiring at the end of the 2012 season.

Win–loss records

Edward K. Hall and

have, respectively, the fewest wins (10) and most wins (489) on the list.

has the fewest losses at five while

Amos Alonzo Stagg Amos Alonzo Stagg (August 16, 1862 – March 17, 1965) was an American athlete and college coach in multiple sports, primarily American football. He served as the head football coach at the International YMCA Training School (now called Springfiel ...

has the most losses at 199. Stagg also has the most games resulting in a tie at 35. Multiple coaches have finished their career with zero ties, and

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rules in college football were introduced in 1996 which make ties impossible in the period since.

Larry Kehres Larry Kehres (born September 7, 1949) is a former American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the University of Mount Union—formerly known as Mount Union College—in Alliance, Ohio for 27 ...

has the highest win percentage at .929;

is second at .925.

Tuss McLaughry DeOrmond "Tuss" McLaughry (May 19, 1893 – November 26, 1974) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania (1915–1916, 1918, 1921), Amherst College (192 ...

has the lowest win percentage at .490. He is only coach on the list under the .500 mark.

List of College Football Hall of Fame coaches

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