| The Best Coaches in NCAA Football History | | | | fourteen consecutive seasons. His 1999 team was |
| NCAA football, particularly Division I-A, is one of the | | | | the first ever to go from opening game to the |
| most competitive collegiate sports. Many coaches | | | | championship while maintaining their number one AP |
| have had winning seasons, but only the greatest are | | | | ranking the whole time. He is ranked second in most |
| remembered by fans. Bobby Bowden, forty four | | | | bowl wins. When he took over in 1976, the Seminoles |
| years after coaching his first college game and after | | | | had won a total of only four games in three seasons. |
| twenty nine years with Florida State, is the | | | | His career record with the Seminoles, playing some of |
| winningest coach in NCAA history. His Seminoles were | | | | the league's toughest teams, is 278-70-4. |
| ranked in the Associated Press (AP) Top Five for | | | | |