Programs without their best coach

Updated: July 9, 2012, 12:02 PM ET
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College football programs without its all-time winningest coach

Is your school a one-coach wonder? Below is a chart showing a school's all-time wins (W), losses (L), ties (T) and winning percentage (W%), its all-time winningest coach and his record and what that school's record would be without its top coach.

Team W L T W % No. 1 coach W L T W's w/o No. 1 L T W %
Air Force 344 284 13 .547 Fisher DeBerry 169 109 1 175 175 12 .500
Akron 488 493 36 .498 Jim Dennison 80 62 2 408 431 34 .487
Alabama 814 320 43 .710 Bear Bryant 232 46 9 582 274 34 .673
UAB 107 128 2 .456 Watson Brown 62 74 0 45 54 2 .455
Arizona 565 423 33 .570 Dick Tomey 95 64 4 470 359 29 .565
Arizona
State		 561 356 24 .609 Frank Kush 173 57 1 388 299 23 .563
Arkansas 680 452 40 .597 Frank Broyles 144 58 5 536 394 35 .574
Arkansas
State		 416 454 37 .479 Larry Lacewell 69 58 4 347 396 33 .468
Army 652 471 51 .577 Red Blaik 121 33 10 531 438 41 .546
Auburn 711 405 47 .632 Shug Jordan 176 83 6 535 322 41 .619
Ball
State		 412 377 32 .521 John Magnabosco 68 46 14 344 331 18 .509
Baylor 524 530 44 .497 Grant Teaff 128 105 6 396 425 38 .483
Boise
State		 377 146 2 .720 Chris Petersen 73 6 1 304 140 1 .684
Boston College 626 444 37 .582 Tom O'Brien 75 45 0 551 399 37 .577
Bowling Green 497 345 52 .585 Doyt Perry 77 11 5 420 334 47 .554
Brigham Young 522 383 26 .575 Lavell Edwards 257 101 3 265 282 23 .485
Buffalo 340 482 28 .416 Dick Offenhammer 58 37 5 282 445 23 .391
California 655 500 52 .564 Jeff Tedford 79 48 7 576 452 45 .558
UCF 191 182 1 .512 Gene McDowell 87 61 0 104 121 1 .462
Central Michigan 576 375 36 .602 Herb Deromedi 110 55 10 466 320 26 .590
Cincinnati 560 554 51 .503 Rick Minter 53 63 1 507 491 50 .508
Clemson 657 448 45 .591 Frank Howard 165 118 12 492 330 33 .595
Colorado 674 452 36 .596 Bill McCartney 93 55 5 581 397 31 .591
Colorado
State		 477 536 33 .472 Harry Hughes 126 96 18 351 440 15 .445
UConn 486 510 38 .488 Randy Edsall 74 70 0 412 440 38 .484
Duke 459 483 31 .488 Wallace Wade 110 36 7 349 447 24 .440
East Carolina 396 373 12 .515 Steve Logan 69 58 0 327 315 12 .509
Eastern Michigan 434 535 47 .450 Elton Rynearson 114 58 15 320 477 32 .405
Florida 669 385 40 .630 Steve Spurrier 122 27 1 547 358 39 .600
Florida Atlantic 58 74 0 .439 Howard Schnellenberger 58 74 0 0 0 0 *
FIU 39 79 0 .331 Mario Cristobal 24 38 0 15 41 0 .268
Florida
State		 475 235 17 .665 Bobby Bowden 304 97 4 171 138 13 .551
Fresno
State		 557 384 27 .589 Jim Sweeney 144 74 3 413 310 24 .569
Georgia 747 400 54 .644 Vince Dooley 201 77 10 546 323 44 .622
Georgia Tech 687 461 43 .595 Bobby Dodd 165 64 8 522 397 35 .566
Hawaii 517 391 25 .568 Otto "Proc" Klum 84 51 7 433 340 18 .559
Houston 383 334 15 .533 Bill Yeoman 160 108 8 223 226 7 .497
Idaho 439 558 26 .442 John L. Smith 53 21 0 386 537 26 .420
Illinois 580 534 50 .520 Robert Zuppke 131 81 13 449 453 37 .498
Indiana 449 628 44 .420 Bill Mallory 69 77 3 380 551 41 .412
Iowa 593 523 39 .530 Hayden Fry 143 89 6 450 434 33 .509
Iowa
State		 500 594 29 .458 Dan McCarney 56 85 0 444 509 29 .467
Kansas 572 560 58 .505 A.R. Kennedy 52 9 4 520 551 54 .486
Kansas
State		 475 612 41 .439 Bill Snyder 159 83 1 316 529 40 .380
Kent
State		 316 505 28 .389 Trevor Rees 92 63 5 224 442 23 .342
Kentucky 578 572 44 .503 Bear Bryant 60 23 5 518 549 39 .486
Louisiana Tech 562 424 37 .567 Joe Aillet 151 86 8 411 338 29 .547
Louisiana-Lafayette 490 511 34 .490 Russ Faulkinberry 66 63 2 424 448 32 .487
Louisiana-Monroe 276 369 8 .429 Pat Collins 57 35 0 219 334 8 .398
Louisville 455 437 17 .510 Frank Camp 118 95 2 337 342 15 .496
LSU 733 390 47 .647 Charles McClendon 137 59 7 596 331 40 .637
Marshall 533 513 47 .509 Bob Pruett 94 23 0 439 490 47 .474
Maryland 613 545 43 .528 Curley Byrd 119 82 15 494 463 28 .516
Memphis 438 479 33 .478 Billy Murphy 91 44 1 347 435 32 .446
Miami (FL) 574 326 19 .635 Andy Gustafson 93 65 3 481 261 16 .645
Miami (OH) 664 402 44 .618 Randy Walker 59 35 5 605 367 39 .618
Michigan 895 310 36 .736 Bo Schembechler 194 48 5 701 262 31 .721
Michigan
State		 638 430 44 .594 Duffy Daugherty 109 69 5 529 361 39 .590
Middle Tennessee 529 392 28 .572 Charles Murphy 155 63 8 374 329 20 .531
Minnesota 646 481 44 .570 Henry Williams 136 33 11 510 448 33 .531
Ole Miss 621 486 35 .559 John Vaught 190 61 12 431 425 23 .503
Mississippi
State		 506 544 39 .483 Jackie Sherrill 75 75 2 431 469 37 .480
Missouri 625 525 52 .542 Don Faurot 101 79 10 524 446 42 .539
Navy 656 531 57 .550 George Welsh 55 46 1 601 485 56 .551
Nebraska 846 349 40 .701 Tom Osborne 255 49 3 591 300 37 .657
Nevada 510 441 33 .535 Chris Ault 226 103 1 284 338 32 .459
UNLV 223 272 4 .451 Tony Knap 47 20 2 176 252 2 .412
New Mexico 453 544 31 .456 Rocky Long 65 69 0 388 475 31 .451
New Mexico
State		 412 575 30 .420 Warren Woodson 63 36 3 349 539 27 .396
North Carolina 662 499 54 .567 Dick Crum 72 41 3 590 458 51 .560
North Carolina
State		 550 535 55 .507 Earl Edwards 77 88 8 473 447 47 .513
North
Texas		 475 458 33 .509 Odus Mitchell 122 85 9 353 373 24 .487
Northern Illinois 523 463 51 .529 Red Evans 131 70 20 392 393 31 .499
N'western 488 632 44 .438 Lynn Waldorf 49 45 7 439 587 37 .430
Notre
Dame		 853 300 42 .731 Knute Rockne 105 12 5 748 288 37 .714
Ohio 515 526 48 .495 Don Peden 122 46 11 393 480 37 .452
Ohio
State		 837 316 53 .716 Woody Hayes 205 61 10 632 255 43 .703
Oklahoma 821 307 53 .718 Barry Switzer 157 29 4 664 278 49 .695
Oklahoma
State		 530 523 47 .503 Pat Jones 62 60 3 468 463 44 .503
Oregon 592 470 46 .555 Mike Bellotti 116 55 0 476 415 46 .533
Oregon
State		 494 531 50 .483 Lon Stiner 74 49 17 420 482 33 .467
Penn
State		 827 361 41 .690 Joe Paterno 409 136 3 418 225 38 .642
Pittsburgh 677 490 42 .577 Jock Sutherland 111 20 12 566 470 30 .545
Purdue 586 508 48 .534 Joe Tiller 87 62 0 499 446 48 .527
Rice 436 564 32 .438 Jess Neely 144 124 10 292 440 22 .402
Rutgers 616 604 42 .505 Frank R Burns 78 43 1 538 561 41 .490
San Diego
State		 492 394 32 .553 Don Coryell 104 19 2 388 375 30 .508
San Jose
State		 453 459 38 .497 Dud DeGroot 59 19 8 394 440 30 .473
South Carolina 555 542 44 .506 Rex Enright 64 69 7 491 473 37 .509
South Florida 108 69 0 .610 Jim Leavitt 95 57 0 13 12 0 .520
USC 779 314 54 .703 John McKay 127 40 8 652 274 46 .694
SMU 462 493 54 .485 Matty Bell 79 40 8 383 453 46 .460
Southern Miss 556 370 26 .598 Thad "Pie" Vann 139 59 2 417 311 24 .570
Stanford 583 435 49 .569 Pop Warner 71 17 8 512 418 41 .548
Syracuse 691 491 49 .581 Ben Schwartzwalder 153 91 3 538 400 46 .570
Temple 429 537 52 .447 Wayne Hardin 80 52 3 349 485 49 .423
Tennessee 794 347 53 .687 Gen. Robert Neyland 173 31 12 621 316 41 .656
Texas 858 330 33 .716 Darrell Royal 167 47 5 691 283 28 .704
Texas A&M 681 450 48 .598 R.C. Slocum 123 47 2 558 403 46 .577
TCU 593 514 57 .534 Dutch Meyer 109 79 13 484 435 44 .525
UTEP 369 533 30 .412 Mack Saxon 66 43 9 303 490 21 .385
Texas Tech 524 405 32 .562 Spike Dykes 82 67 1 442 338 31 .564
Toledo 481 402 24 .544 Gary Pinkel 73 37 3 408 365 21 .527
Troy 488 368 28 .568 Larry Blakeney 164 91 1 324 277 27 .537
Tulane 496 590 38 .458 Clark Shaughnessy 59 28 7 437 562 31 .439
Tulsa 573 438 27 .565 Gus Henderson 70 25 5 503 413 22 .548
UCLA 555 381 37 .589 Terry Donahue 144 81 8 411 300 29 .575
Utah 623 428 31 .590 Ike Armstrong 141 55 15 482 373 16 .563
Utah
State		 486 503 31 .492 Dick Romney 128 91 16 358 412 15 .466
Vanderbilt 564 574 50 .496 Dan McGugin 197 55 19 367 519 31 .417
Virginia 626 555 48 .529 George Welsh 134 86 3 492 469 45 .511
Virginia
Tech		 689 435 46 .609 Frank Beamer 209 98 2 480 337 44 .583
Wake
Forest		 420 609 33 .411 D.C. Walker 77 51 6 343 558 27 .384
Washington 670 418 50 .611 Don James 153 57 2 517 361 48 .584
Washington
State		 497 517 45 .491 Babe Hollingbery 94 53 14 403 464 31 .466
West Virginia 701 457 45 .601 Don Nehlen 149 93 4 552 364 41 .598
Western Kentucky 520 364 30 .585 Jimmy Feix 106 56 6 414 308 24 .571
Western Michigan 522 411 24 .558 Bill Spaulding 62 25 3 460 386 21 .543
Wisconsin 635 470 53 .571 Barry Alvarez 118 73 4 517 397 49 .562
Wyoming 495 524 28 .486 Lloyd Eaton 57 33 2 438 491 26 .472
*FAU has had only one coach since it started its football program.

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