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Factoid 371 – How many coaches have won National Championships at more than one school!

Date: 1/19/15

Four coaches have won national championships at more than one school. One has won it at three different schools.


Bear Bryant - coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide (1958-1982)
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If you were watching the National Championship game, you would think that only two coaches have done it: Nick Saban at LSU and Alabama and Urban Meyer at Ohio State and Florida. In a sense that is true, but if you count any poll back when polls decided national championships for this, then you would have to add two more coaches, Bear Bryant and Howard Jones. Coach Bryant won all but one of his championships at Alabama; however, his Kentucky Wildcats who went 11-1 were ranked number one by the Sagarin ratings. (Coach Bryant coached at Maryland, Kentucky and Texas A&M prior to the Crimson Tide.)

Howard Jones is the only coach to win a National Championship at three schools: Yale; Iowa; and USC. As always, it is which polls you count whether or not you accept this, so there are multiple answers as a result of college football having polls decide championships and not on the field match-ups in years past. Luckily, things have changed.

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Factoid 372 - How many times have the TCU Horned Frogs finished third at the end of the season?

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