List of college football coaches with 20 ties

This is a list of college football coaches with 20 career ties.^[1]^[2] College football coaches who have coached college teams to 20 or more tie games are included in the list. College football has since established "tiebreaking" rules—without a change in game rules, no new members will be added to this list^[3] and there are no leaders in the support advocating repeal of the tiebreaking rule.^[4]

"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.

Summary

Tenure

The coach with the longest tenure is Amos Alonzo Stagg, who coached for 55 seasons and 555 games. Coach Stagg and "Pop" Warner were the only two coaches to begin coaching before 1900. No coach on the list was active after the 1954 season. Butch Cowell has the shortest tenure of any coach on the list with 21 seasons.

Win/Loss

The most successful coach on the list is Howard Jones with a win percentage of 73.3%. The least successful was Frank Dobson at 49.6%, the only coach on the list below the .500 mark.

Percentages

Howard Hancock leads the list with the highest percentage or ratio of tie games to total games played at .144. A total of five coaches produced at least one tie game out of every ten games played. Amos Alonzo Stagg has the lowest ratio of tie games to total games at .063.

College football coaches with 20 (or more) career ties

Head coach	First year	Last year	Total years	Games coached	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win %^{[A 1]}	Tie %^{[A 2]}
Stagg, Amos AlonzoAmos Alonzo Stagg	1892	1946	55	555	330	190	35	.626	.063
Morrison, RayRay Morrison	1915	1948	28	263	129	101	33	.553	.125
Warner, Glenn ScobeyGlenn Scobey Warner	1895	1938	44	456	318	106	32	.732	.070
Abbott, Cleveland L.Cleveland L. Abbott	1923	1954	32	326	202	97	27	.661	.083
Hancock, HowardHoward Hancock	1921	1944	22	180	91	63	26	.578	.144
Vaughan, Robert E.Robert E. Vaughan	1919	1945	27	224	115	85	24	.567	.107
Cowell, ButchButch Cowell	1915	1936	21	180	87	69	24	.550	.133
Bachman, CharlieCharlie Bachman	1919	1946	27	234	132	80	22	.611	.094
Jones, HowardHoward Jones	1908	1940	29	279	194	64	21	.733	.075
Bible, Dana X.Dana X. Bible	1916	1946	30	272	186	65	21	.722	.077
Macandrew, WilliamWilliam McAndrew	1913	1938	22	182	82	80	20	.505	.110
Evans, GeorgeGeorge Evans	1913	1954	27	228	136	72	20	.640	.088
Dobson, FrankFrank Dobson	1910	1939	28	242	110	112	20	.496	.083

Notes

↑ Winning percentage is calculated with ties counting as a ½ loss and a ½ win.
↑ Tie percentage is calculated as the number of tie games divided by the total number of games played.

References

↑ "NCAA Coaching Records" (PDF). NCAA. 2008. pp. 189, 192.
↑ "All-Time Coaching Records". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2010-06-20.
↑ ESPN "Ties sparked controversy, debate" by Ivan Maisel, June 28, 2010
↑ Maisel, Ivan (June 28, 2010). "Ties sparked controversy, debate". ESPN.com. Retrieved April 20, 2012.

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