Best head coaches to never win a national title

[MedleyCane]

At the Div1A level it has to be Jim Tressel.

Tressel reached a BCS title game so he won't be on the list.

Jim Tressel 'won' a NC at Ohio State. Against Miami.

No he didn't.

 

[coca cola]

Richt and Davis are the 2 best coaches to do the following
1. Never win a NC in 26 combined years of coaching.
2. Combine to coach 15 years from 2006-2016, and combine to win one division title during that time span. And that is while coaching in ****holes called the SEC East and ACC Coastal Divisions.
3. Combine to win the pink slip award 3 times.

 

[MIA42178]

Interesting, to say the least. In some ways you can equate that to recruiting...they did more with less. You might also construe CMR as not being in this same "more with less" category but being in the Bama SEC and trying (I think, to run a clean program in an arguably "dirty" league probably had some effect on that. In fertile South Florida, an with a national reach - perhaps CMR can grab that gold ring... at worst I believe he returns the U to respectability and sets the table to return to national significance.

Richt also had to play Urban Meyer on an annual basis for five or six seasons. Did he ever beat Meyer?

He went 1-5 against Meyer at Florida. Ouch.

Edit: Looking back, Georgia had a really rough stretch in the SEC for awhile. Surprisingly bad, actually.

You could argue that they were surprisingly good once. Plus that Hershel walker year

 

[callmetrip]

Jake Gaither, Eddie Robinson....oh wait. NM they won the one that mattered.

 

[kryptonite]

At the Div1A level it has to be Jim Tressel.

Tressel reached a BCS title game so he won't be on the list.

Are you familiar with the title of this thread?

Are you familiar with the 2003 Fiesta Bowl?

 

[kalinis]

I wondered why the list only addressed current coaches, then I saw this:

Criteria for eligibility: For college football coaches, it’s never reaching the College Football Playoff (2014-15 seasons) or the BCS title game (1998-2013 seasons).

So its just a list of the alleged best since 1998. Fairly small timeframe for the life of college football.

the truth is without a playoff or bcs Georgia and richt might have a national title. its all subjective in polls and many times the 2 polls had different national champs.

 

[MedleyCane]

At the Div1A level it has to be Jim Tressel.

Tressel reached a BCS title game so he won't be on the list.

Are you familiar with the title of this thread?

Are you familiar with the 2003 Fiesta Bowl?

Yes.
Are you serious?

 

[kryptonite]

At the Div1A level it has to be Jim Tressel.

Tressel reached a BCS title game so he won't be on the list.

Are you familiar with the title of this thread?

Are you familiar with the 2003 Fiesta Bowl?

Yes.
Are you serious?

You seem so serious that I'll assume for a sec that I'm misunderstanding.

Thread about best coaches to have NOT won a championship, and you mention Jim Tressel. Last I checked, osu (coached by Jim Tressel) "won" the 2003 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl giving them (and him) the NC for 2002. And, as mentioned, the University of Miami was the team that got jobbed on that one.

Please help me understand what I've missed.

 

[Ibis Wingz]

Tom Coughlin

 

[The Franchise]

My former coach Dyck Bagg.

 

[Canezum5]

My former coach Dyck Bagg.

Reminds me of my ol' ball coach.

Dyck Andy Baws.

Good man.