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We have a lot of Rankings of College Football Coaches here at Coaches Hot Seat (a few public but most are private), but by far our favorite is the Winningest Active Coaches in I-A football.  We have been working our way through a number of things here at CHS, and we now have the Winningest Active Coaches list ready for the 120 Head Coaches in I-A football and it is mighty entertaining viewing.

Subscribers to Coaches Hot Seat can see the entire list at the below link….

2010 Winningest Active Coaches I-A

 ….and here are the Top 25 Winningest Active Coaches in I-A College Football heading into the 2010 college football season.  

#	Coach	School	Age	Conf	Salary	Yrs	W	L	T	Win%
1	Chris Petersen	Boise State	46	WAC	$1,500,000	4	49	4	0	.925
2	Urban Meyer	Florida	46	SEC	$4,100,000	9	96	18	0	.842
3	Mike London	Virginia	50	ACC	$1,800,000	2	24	5	0	.828
4	Bobby Hauck	UNLV	46	MWC	$500,000	7	80	17	0	.825
5	Bob Stoops	Oklahoma	50	Big 12	$4,100,000	11	117	29	0	.801
6	Chip Kelly	Oregon	47	Pac 10	$1,950,000	1	10	3	0	.769
7	Mark Richt	Georgia	50	SEC	$3,400,000	9	90	27	0	.769
8	B. Mendenhall	BYU	44	MWC	$725,000	5	49	15	0	.766
9	Gary Patterson	TCU	50	MWC	$2,500,000	10	85	28	0	.752
10	Joe Paterno	Penn State	84	Big Ten	$1,500,000	44	394	129	3	.749
11	Brian Kelly	Notre Dame	49	Big East	$2,750,000	19	171	57	2	.743
12	Jim Tressel	Ohio State	58	Big Ten	$3,800,000	24	229	78	2	.741
13	Paul Johnson	Georgia Tech	53	ACC	$2,500,000	13	127	46	0	.734
14	K. Whittingham	Utah	51	MWC	$1,300,000	5	47	17	0	.734
15	Bret Bielema	Wisconsin	40	Big Ten	$1,600,000	4	38	14	0	.731
16	Bobby Petrino	Arkansas	49	SEC	$2,950,000	6	54	21	0	.720
17	Steve Spurrier	South Carolina	65	SEC	$2,200,000	20	177	68	2	.717
18	Bo Pelini	Nebraska	43	Big 12	$2,100,000	3	20	8	0	.714
19	Nick Saban	Alabama	59	SEC	$4,633,000	14	125	50	1	.710
20	Les Miles	LSU	57	SEC	$3,900,000	9	79	36	0	.687
21	Chris Ault	Nevada	64	WAC	$400,000	25	206	96	1	.680
22	Mack Brown	Texas	59	Big 12	$5,100,000	26	214	101	1	.677
23	Butch Jones	Cincinnati	42	Big East	$1,400,000	3	27	13	0	.675
24	Kevin Sumlin	Houston	46	CUSA	$1,200,000	2	18	9	0	.667
25	K. Niumatalolo	Navy	45	Ind.	$1,115,000	2	18	9	0	.667

 

 

As you can see Chris Petersen at Boise State is putting up some stunning win/loss numbers with only 4 losses in 4 seasons and we don’t care who you are playing, 49 wins in 4 seasons is just an incredible number of wins.  By the way, Chris Petersen and Boise State have played 5 “BCS” schools in the last 4 seasons and the Broncos are 4-1 in those games.  Chris Petersen is on a roll similar to the one that Knute Rockne put up in 13 seasons at Notre Dame (1918 – 1930) when The Rock’s/Irish record was 105 – 12 (.881)!  Wow!  As is Urban Meyer at Florida and Bob Stoops at OU (even with that subpar 2009 for the Sooners!).  One must also recognize Mike London at Virginia and Bobby Hauck at UNLV coming out of the I-AA football division with some great winning records as well.  One thing to note, we have looked at the win/loss records of the truly great coaches in the history of college football and  the .700 winning percentage number is a pretty good determining factor for a head coach that is winning a lot of football games and often headed to the College Football Hall of Fame.

2006

WIN – Oregon State – 42 – 14

WIN – Oklahoma – 43 – 42

2007

LOSS – Washington – 10 – 24

2008

WIN – Oregon – 37 – 32

2009

WIN – Oregon – 19 – 8

That makes that September 6 game this year in Washington DC between Boise State and Virginia Tech very Damn interesting!  Talk about an fascinating matchup, the Broncos vs. the Hokies promises to be very entertaining with talent all over the field and very good head coaches and coaching staffs on both sidelines.

According to the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, courtesy of Tomahawk Nation, Boise State is a 2.5 favorite over Virginia Tech!  Wow!  That tells you a lot about how much talent Petersen has recruited to Boise and how well his football team is coached that BSU is favored when traveling across the country to play one of the best teams in the ACC.

Not that we gamble much beyond the blackjack tables and our weekly pokers games, but we like Boise State over Virginia Tech which means that VT DC Bud Foster better be spending a lot of time figuring out a way to slow down QB Kellen Moore!

2010 Tour de France

 

 

The 2010 Tour de France got underway over the weekend and after the first three stages Lance Armstrong is right in the thick of things as the Tour heads into France from Belgium today. 

We get a great kick out of watching the Tour de France here at Coaches Hot Seat because of all the great places the Tour travels in France and neighboring European countries.  The 2010 Tour de France is traveling through some incredible sections of France including the French Alps along the Swiss and Italian borders….

 before swinging down to southern France and the Pyrenees Mountains on the border of Spain.  After the Pyrenees Mountain section the race heads north through the Bordeaux region of France.

Talk about some beautiful country, the Bordeaux region of France is a must-see if you are traveling in that part of the world.  The New York Times recently published an interesting travel story on following Thomas Jefferson’s footsteps when he was the envoy to France in the late 1780s, Following Jefferson Through the Vineyards, which gives one a good idea of what the Bordeaux region of France is like.

The Versus Network (Channel 603 on DirecTV)  has the coverage of the Tour de France and along with French TV they are doing a great job of providing some incredible video and the terrific commentators at Versus, with Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwin calling the live action, are all doing a great job of covering this fascinating race.  (Some of the folks doing the play-by-play and color commentary in college football  today could learn a lot by watching/listening to how Liggett and Sherwin call the Tour de France, as they could learn a lot by getting out tapes of Keith Jackson or Al Michaels for that matter.  All of these announcers cover/covered the game they were sitting at always keeping the focus on the game that is unfolding in front of them, which is what the TV audience is really interested in…..)

Yes, even the French settle their championships on the Field of Play unlike those Candy Ass BCS Bastards!  One of us here at Coaches Hot Seat has a good friend that has been working in Paris, France for the past 3 years and he reports that over the New Year’s he tried to explain to some French friends of his the college football postseason, but his friends kept coming back to and asking about taking a “month off at the end of the regular college football season” and “why play any of these bowl games….they mean nothing.”  Man, if the French can’t understand the BCS and think it is Total Bullshit then you know that you are dealing with something incredibly Bogus! 

How do you say Candy Ass BCS Bastards in French you ask?

“Confire l’ane BCS batards!”

Or you can always just go with the Johnny Cash straight-forward approach when dealing with these BCS Boys!

Why does that make us feel so good

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