List of college football coaches with 200 wins This is a list of college football coaches with 200 career wins . " College level " is defined as a four - year college or university program in either the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics or the National Collegiate Athletic Association . If the team competed at a time before the official organization of either of the two groups but is generally accepted as a " college football program " it would also be included . Historical overview . As of the end of the 2011 season , a total of 70 head football coaches had reached the milestone of 200 career coaching wins . In the 100 years after the first college football game in 1869 , only eight coaches reached the 200 - win milestone . The only two who reached the mark before 1950 were Glenn Scobey Warner , with 319 wins from 1895 to 1938 ( mostly at Carlisle , Pitt and Stanford ) , and Amos Alonzo Stagg , with 314 wins from 1890 to 1946 ( mostly at the University of Chicago ) . By 1970 , another six coaches had reached the milestone : Ace Mumford , with 233 wins from 1924 to 1961 ( mostly at Southern University ) ; Fred T . Long , with 227 wins from 1921 to 1965 ( mostly at Wiley College ) ; Jess Neely , with 207 wins from 1924 to 1966 ( mostly at Clemson and Rice ) ; Cleveland L . Abbott , with 203 wins at Tuskegee University between 1923 and 1954 ; Jake Gaither , with 204 wins at Florida A & M University from 1945 to 1969 ; and Eddie Anderson , with 201 wins from 1922 to 1964 ( mostly at Holy Cross ) . Though only eight coaches reached the milestone from 1869 to 1970 , 62 coaches have reached the mark in the 41 seasons since then . The most recent coach to reach 200 wins is Danny Hale , the current head football coach at Bloomsburg University , who reached the mark on October 8 , 2011 . Leaders by category . In overall career wins , the all - time leader is John Gagliardi with 484 wins , mostly at the Division III level . Gagliardi began his head coaching career at Carroll College in Helena , Montana in 1949 , and in 1953 took his current job at Saint John ' s University in Collegeville , Minnesota . Eddie Robinson , head coach at Grambling State University from 1941 to 1997 with a two - season hiatus during World War II , is second with 408 . Bobby Bowden is in third place and Bear Bryant in fourth place . Among NCAA Division I coaches , the all - time leaders are Bobby Bowden ( 377 ) , Bear Bryant ( 323 ) , Joe Paterno ( 298 ) , and LaVell Edwards ( 257 ) . For a few months , Joe Paterno held the top spot with 409 , but all 111 wins from the 1998 through 2011 seasons were vacated , due to NCAA sanctions following the Penn State child sex abuse scandal . Among active NCAA Division I coaches , the all - time win leader is Frank Beamer ( 251 ) , Jerry Moore ( 234 ) , Mack Brown ( 227 ) . The all - time win leaders in NCAA Division II are Eddie Robinson , Jake Gaither , and Chuck Broyles , and the all - time win leaders in NCAA Division III are John Gagliardi and Larry Kehres . Among active coaches , the career win leaders are John Gagliardi ( 484 ) , Larry Kehres ( 317 ) , Ken Sparks ( 299 ) , Bob Ford ( 255 ) , Kevin Donley ( 254 ) , and Hank Biesiot ( 253 ) . Among the coaches with 200 career wins , the individual with the highest winning percentage is Larry Kehres with a winning percentage after 26 seasons ( 1986 – present ) as the head football coach at the University of Mount Union in Alliance , Ohio . Five others have reached the 200 - win milestone with career winning percentages above . 800 : Jake Gaither ( . 844 ) , Tom Osborne ( . 836 ) , Mike Kelly ( . 819 ) , Ron Schipper ( . 808 ) and Bo Schembechler ( . 804 ) . The coaches with the most wins at one college are John Gagliardi ( 460 at St . John ' s ) , Eddie Robinson ( 408 at Grambling ) , Larry Kehres ( 317 at Mount Union ) , Roy Kidd ( 314 at Eastern Kentucky ) , Bobby Bowden ( 304 at Florida State ) , and Tubby Raymond ( 300 at Delaware ) .