College Football: 10 best head coaches who never won a national title

10 best college football coaches who have never won a national title

By Dante Pryor | Mar 19, 2020

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - DECEMBER 21: Head coach Chris Petersen (C) of the Washington Huskies celebrates with his team after defeating the Boise State Broncos 38-7 in the Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas Bowl at Sam Boyd Stadium on December 21, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images) /

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AUBURN, AL – OCTOBER 23: The War Eagle of the Auburn Tigers flies down to Pat Dye Field before the game against the LSU Tigers at Jordan-Hare Stadium on October 23, 2010, in Auburn, Alabama. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) /

Best season: 1983 (11-1, won the Sugar Bowl, finished No. 3)

Pat Dye’s run at Auburn was the best in school history since Ralph “Shug” Jordan. The Tigers had nine consecutive winning seasons while Dye was at the helm of the Tigers.

Before he began his career on the plains, he was the head coach at East Carolina from 1974-79, guiding the Pirates to the 1978 Independence Bowl. After leaving Greenville, Dye stopped in Laramie to coach the Wyoming Cowboys for one season in 1980.

After his one year at Wyoming, he was hired as Auburn’s head coach in 1981. The irony of Dye’s tenure at Auburn is he began his coaching career as an assistant under Paul “Bear” Bryant. He handed the “Bear” his last regular-season loss in 1982. Dye was SEC Coach of the Year three times, won four SEC titles (including three in a row), and led the Tigers to four consecutive top-10 finishes.

Dye was the coach who returned the Tigers to national prominence.

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