Today's Tidbit... College Football's Losingest Coaches

Mar 25, 2023

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Most fans could easily name five of the ten college football coaches with the most career wins, though the coaches that worked at lower levels may be more challenging to recall. (Two coaches tied for tenth place, so the top ten includes eleven coaches.) The coaches that achieved that level of success had two things in common: they won at a high percentage (.605 or above) and were head coaches for many years (at least twenty-seven).

Adapted from Wiki’s list of college football coaches with 200+ wins. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_college_football_coaches_with_200_wins)

If longevity and winning percentage explain the winningest coaches, what explains the losingest?

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