The 2015-16 coaching market was a brutal to the FBS all-time wins list. Gone are all the all-time wins leaders at Missouri, South Carolina and Virginia Tech, and near leaders at BYU and Central Florida and a bronze medalist at Georgia.
But there is still plenty of wheat on this chaff.
In the fourth year of this ongoing FootballScoop project, we've compiled a list of six coaches in possession of their respective schools' all-time wins record, two who do so without any competition, and 33 more on the medal stand or within one good season of doing so.
Enjoy.
THE RECORD HOLDERS
KANSAS STATE
1. Bill Snyder - 193 wins
2. Mike Ahearn - 39 wins
With two more wins this fall, The Wizard will quintuple the silver medal holder in K-State football history.
NAVY
1. Ken Niumatalolo - 68 wins
2. George Welsh - 55 wins
NORTHWESTERN
1. Pat Fitzgerald - 70 wins
2. Lynn Waldorf - 49 wins
OKLAHOMA
1. Bob Stoops - 179 wins
2. Barry Switzer - 157 wins
OKLAHOMA STATE
1. Mike Gundy - 94 wins
2. Pat Jones - 62 wins
TCU
1. Gary Patterson - 143 wins
2. Dutch Meyer - 109 wins
THE ASTERISKS
CHARLOTTE
1. Brad Lambert - 2 wins
SOUTH ALABAMA
1. Joey Jones - 19 wins
ON THE MEDAL STAND (OR CLOSE TO IT)
AIR FORCE
1. Fisher DeBerry - 169 wins
2. Ben Martin - 96 wins
3. Troy Calhoun - 67 wins
ALABAMA
1. Paul "Bear" Bryant - 232 wins
2. Frank Thomas - 115 wins
3. Nick Saban - 100 wins
Saban will never pass the Bear, but he's a safe bet to surpass Frank "Not The Big Hurt" Thomas for No. 2 at one of college football's most storied programs in September 2017... and that's after going 9-2 in one season at Toledo, posting a top-10 season at Michigan State, winning a national title and LSU and depositing two seasons leading the Miami Dolphins.
ARIZONA
1. Dick Tomey - 95 wins
2. Larry Smith - 48 wins
3. Miles Casteel - 41 wins
Jim LaRue - 41 wins
Mike Stoops - 41 wins
6. Rich Rodriguez - 33 wins
Rich Rod is also the second-winningest coach in West Virginia history. And he's only 52.
BAYLOR
1. Grant Teaff - 128 wins
2. Morley Jennings - 83 wins
3. Art Briles - 65 wins
BOISE STATE
1. Chris Petersen - 92 wins
2. Dan Hawkins - 53 wins
3. Dirk Koetter - 26 wins
4. Bryan Harsin - 21 wins
CLEMSON
1. Frank Howard - 165 wins
2. Danny Ford - 96 wins
3. Dabo Swinney - 75 wins
CONNECTICUT
1. Randy Edsall - 70 wins
2. Paul Pasqualoni - 10 wins
3. Bob Diaco - 8 wins
DUKE
1. Wallace Wade - 110 wins
2. Bill Murray - 93 wins
3. David Cutcliffe - 48 wins
FLORIDA ATLANTIC
1. Howard Schnellenberger - 58 wins
2. Charlie Partridge - 6 wins
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL
1. Mario Cristobal - 27 wins
2. Don Strock - 15 wins
3. Ron Turner - 10 wins
FLORIDA STATE
1. Bobby Bowden - 315 wins
2. Jimbo Fisher - 68 wins
Continuing his 11.3-win average in perpetuity, Jimbo would need only 22 more seasons to pass Bowden. Good luck with that.
FRESNO STATE
1. Jim Sweeney - 143 wins
2. Pat Hill - 112 wins
3. Tim DeRuyter - 29 wins
GEORGIA STATE
1. Bill Curry - 10 wins
2. Trent Miles - 7 wins
IOWA
1. Hayden Fry - 143 wins
2. Kirk Ferentz - 127 wins
LOUISVILLE
1. Frank Camp - 118 wins
2. Bobby Petrino - 58 wins
LSU
1. Charles McClendon - 137 wins
2. Les Miles - 112 wins
LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE
1. Nelson Stokley - 62 wins
2. Rickey Bustle - 41 wins
3. Mark Hudspeth - 40 wins
LOUISIANA TECH
1. Jack Bicknell - 43 wins
2. Joe Peace - 40 wins
3. Maxie Lambright - 29 wins
4. Sonny Dykes - 22 wins
Skip Holtz - 22 wins
MARSHALL
1. Bob Pruett - 79 wins
2. Doc Holliday - 50 wins
MASSACHUSETTS
1. James Halligan - 15 wins
2. Fred Browns - 12 wins
3. Mark Whipple - 6 wins
MICHIGAN STATE
1. Duffy Daugherty - 109 wins
2. Mark Dantonio - 87 wins
Just in case you forgot, Dantonio is 65-16 with five 11-or-more win seasons, four top-1o finishes, three major bowl appearances and two Big Ten titles since 2010.
MIDDLE TENNESSEE
1. Charles Murphy – 155 wins
2. Boots Donnelly – 140 wins
3. Rick Stockstill - 64 wins
MISSISSIPPI STATE
1. Jackie Sherrill - 75 wins
2. Allyn McKeen - 65 wins
3. Dan Mullen - 55 wins
NEVADA
1. Chris Ault - 95 wins
2. Joseph Sheeketeski - 24 wins
3. Jeff Tisdell - 23 wins
4. Brian Polian - 18 wins
NORTHERN ILLINOIS
1. Joe Novak - 63 wins
2. Jerry Pettibone - 33 wins
3. Rod Carey - 31 wins
OHIO
1. Don Peden – 129 wins
2. Bill Hess – 108 wins
3. Frank Solich - 80 wins
OLE MISS
1. John Vaught - 190 wins
2. Billy Brewer - 66 wins
3. David Cutcliffe - 44 wins
4. Harry Mehre - 39 wins
5. Hugh Freeze - 34 wins
RICE
1. Jess Neely - 144 wins
2. Ken Hatfield - 55 wins
3. David Bailiff - 53 wins
SAN DIEGO STATE
1. Claude Gilbert - 61 wins
2. Ted Tollner - 43 wins
Rocky Long - 43 wins
SOUTH FLORIDA
1. Jim Leavitt - 75 wins
2. Skip Holtz - 16 wins
3. Willie Taggart - 14 wins
STANFORD
1. Pop Warner - 71 wins
2. John Ralston - 55 wins
3. David Shaw - 54 wins
TROY
1. Larry Blakeney - 86 wins
2. Neal Brown - 4 wins
UTAH
1. Ike Armstrong – 141 wins
2. Kyle Whittingham - 95 wins