Texas A&M Football: 10 best coaches in program history

24 Nov 2000: Head Coach R.C. Slocum of the Texas A&M Aggies watches the action from the sidelines during the game against the Texas Longhorns at the Royal Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas. The Longhorns defeated the Aggies 43-17.Mandatory Credit: Brian Bahr /Allsport /

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Here lies the first Aggies coach in this ranking that won a championship for the program. The legendary Texas A&M head coach Homer H. Norton actually has the Aggies’ last National Championship that was ever brought back to College Station. Other highly touted head coaches tried for the Aggies, and every one has failed since.

Norton won that last National Championship in 1939, knocking off the Tulane Green Wave in the Sugar Bowl by just a single point. This is actually Texas A&M’s only official National Championship in program history, despite two others claimed by a coach later placed here.

Texas A&M’s success with some of their best head coaches ever seems to come in stretches of three years. Under Norton, that came between 1939 and 1941. It’s a shame that no season could quite match that of the 1939-40 campaign for the Aggies, since Norton was able to see quite a bit of success over that span of three seasons.

Outside of that three-year stretch of magical seasons in College Station, Norton had a very up and down tenure with the team. Yet, he is one of the longest tenured coaches of any in program history. He lies only behind the final two head coaches on this list in terms of total wins while coaching Texas A&M.