Ranking Super Bowl Winning Coaches Who Coached in College

Dec 28, 2014; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin reacts while wearing a NYPD cap against the Philadelphia Eagles during the fourth quarter at MetLife Stadium. The Eagles defeated the Giants 34-26. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports

6. Tom Coughlin

College Football Record: 21-13-1 (Boston College, 1991-93)

NFL Record: 164-140 (68-60 at Jacksonville from 1995-2002 and 96-80 at New York Giants from 2004-14)

Super Bowls

Super Bowl XLII, 2006-07 (Defeated New England Patriots 17-14)

Super Bowl XLVI, 2011-12(Defeated New England Patriots 21-17)

This is the Bill Parcells protege we were talking about. Tom Coughlin’s tradition of winning just enough to avoid being fired goes right back to his college football days from 1991 to 1993 with the Boston College Eagles.

In three years in the early 1990s, Coughlin turned the Eagles into consistent winners, going from 4-7 to 8-3-1 to 9-3, but he never did anything to wow anybody. Again, perhaps he could have with time. But luckily for him, the semi-confidence that we all have in him is able to hold water there the same way it is now with the New York Giants lucking into two Super Bowl victories.

He at least deserves credit for building up Jacksonville after it became an expansion franchise. The guy clearly knows football and is the first person on this list to actually have some college success.

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