Ranking Super Bowl Winning Coaches Who Coached in College

Jan 30, 2014; New York, NY USA; Philadelphia Eagles and St. Louis Rams and Kansas City Chiefs former coach Dick Vermeil on radio row at the Super Bowl XLVIII media center at the Sheraton Times Square New York. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

5. Dick Vermeil

College Football Record: 15-5-3 (UCLA, 1974-75)

Pac-8 Championship (1975)

NFL Record: 120-109 (54-47 at Philadelphia from 1976-82, 22-26 at St. Louis from 1997-99, and 44-36 at Kansas City from 2001-05)

Super Bowls

Super Bowl XXXIV, 1999-00 (Defeated Tennessee Titans 23-16)

Similar to Coughlin, here is another coach that has a Hall of Fame resume but just barely. In college, Dick Vermeil had a successful two-year stint at UCLA that culminated with a Pac-10 Championship in 1975. It was after that season that he left to take the job in Philadelphia.

Vermeil had one Pac-10 championship and repeated that over a long NFL career-modest success with one breakthrough Super Bowl victory in 1999 to thrust him into elite category among football coaches at every level. That Super Bowl was probably the most thrilling Super Bowl win of all of them too, as the Rams stopped the Titans on the one-yard line to get it. Not to mention he had Mike Martz as offensive coordinator with Kurt Warner, Torre Holt, Isaac Bruce, and Marshall Faulk on offense.

Still, once again, with a conference championship, Vermeil’s college success stands above lots of other coaches, and there is something to be said for that.

He is on the bottom half of this list, though.

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