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The Top Ranked College Football Head Coaches of the 1940s
Notes: Only Coaches who were ranked in the top 50 in any season from 1940-1949 appear on this list.
| Rnk | Coach |
| 1 | Frank Leahy |
| 2 | Red Blaik |
| 3 | Bernie Bierman |
| 4 | Paul Brown |
| 5 | Bennie Oosterbaan |
| 6 | Fritz Crisler |
| 7 | Wallace Butts |
| 8 | Wallace Wade |
| 9 | Don Faurot |
| 10 | Frank Thomas |
| 11 | Clark Shaughnessy |
| 12 | Bud Wilkinson |
| 13 | Carroll Widdoes |
| 14 | Pappy Waldorf |
| 15 | Oscar Hagberg |
| 16 | Harry Stuhldreher |
| 17 | Madison Bell |
| 18 | Carl Snavely |
| 19 | Frank Tritico |
| 20 | Bob Neyland |
| 21 | Henry Frnka |
| 22 | Bob Higgins |
| 23 | Bo McMillin |
| 24 | Dana Bible |
| 25 | Bert LaBrucherie |
| 26 | John Whelchel |
| 27 | Ray Eliot |
| 28 | Jess Neely |
| 29 | William Alexander |
| 30 | Blair Cherry |
| 31 | Jim Lookabaugh |
| 32 | Elmer Burnham |
| 33 | Homer Norton |
| 34 | Jack Meagher |
| 35 | Jimmy Crowley |
| 36 | Wesley Fesler |
| 37 | Red Drew |
| 38 | George Munger |
| 39 | Jeff Cravath |
| 40 | James Phelan |
| 41 | Robert Voights |
| 42 | Biff Jones |
| 43 | Bernie Moore |
| 44 | Denny Myers |
| 45 | Aldo Donelli |
| 46 | Allyn McKeen |
| 47 | Jim Aiken |
| 48 | Ed McKeever |
| 49 | Gaynell Tinsley |
| 50 | Hugh Devore |
| 51 | Bobby Dodd |
| 52 | Swede Larson |
| 53 | Bear Bryant |
| 54 | Frank Howard |
| 55 | Buck Shaw |
| 56 | Red Sanders |
| 57 | Howard Odell |
| 58 | Lon Stiner |
| 59 | George James |
| 60 | Marchy Schwartz |
| 61 | George Sauer |
| 62 | Ralph Welch |
| 63 | John Vaught |
| 64 | Babe Horrell |
| 65 | Jack Hagerty |
| 66 | Jim Leonard |
| 67 | Rube McCray |
| 68 | Jim Tatum |
| 69 | Biggie Munn |
| 70 | Len Casanova |
| 71 | John Barnhill |
| 72 | John DaGrosa |
| 73 | Beattie Feathers |
| 74 | O.E. Hollingbery |
| 75 | Harry Mehre |
| 76 | Frank Kimbrough |
| 77 | John Brothers |
| 78 | Charles Caldwell |
| 79 | Harold White |
| 80 | D.C. Walker |
| 81 | Amos Alonzo Stagg |
| 82 | Lou Little |
| 83 | Joseph Sheeketski |
| 84 | Bob Woodruff |
| 85 | Francis Schmidt |
| 86 | Cecil Isbell |
| 87 | Tom Young |
| 88 | Jack Harding |
| 89 | Elmer Layden |
| 90 | Stub Allison |
| 91 | Ivy Williamson |
| 92 | Edward Anderson |
| 93 | Stuart Holcomb |
| 94 | Red Dawson |
| 95 | DeOrmond McLaughry |
| 96 | Tom Stidham |
| 97 | Snorter Luster |
| 98 | Claude Simons |
| 99 | Tex Oliver |
| 100 | Arthur Guepe |
| 101 | Dutch Meyer |
| 102 | Charlie Bachman |
| 103 | Jordan Olivar |
| 104 | Frank Murray |
| 105 | Jim Yeager |
| 106 | Paul Bixler |
| 107 | Johnny Merriman |
| 108 | Malcolm Pitt |
| 109 | Charles Bowser |
| 110 | Dick Harlow |
| 111 | Mike Michalske |
| 112 | Ray Morrison |
| 113 | Howard Jones |
| 114 | Thomas Hamilton |
| 115 | Kip Taylor |
| 116 | Andrew Kerr |
| 117 | Walter Milligan |
| 118 | Gus Dorais |
| 119 | Ike Armstrong |
| 120 | Willis Barnes |
| 121 | Mal Elward |
| 122 | J.P. Moran |
| 123 | Chauncey Simpson |
| 124 | Harvey Harman |
| 125 | Andy Gustafson |
| 126 | Sam Barry |
| 127 | Warren Woodson |
| 128 | Slip Madigan |
| 129 | John Fenlon |
| 130 | Pete Cawthon |
| 131 | Bill Kern |
| 132 | Dell Morgan |
| 133 | Frank Potts |
| 134 | Chuck Baer |
| 135 | Skip Stahley |
| 136 | Joe Bedenk |
| 137 | Jules Sikes |
| 138 | Ossie Solem |
| 139 | Raymond Wolf |
| 140 | Andrew Moore |
| 141 | Rip Engle |
| 142 | Johnnie McMillan |
| 143 | Rat Rogers |
| 144 | Clyde Smith |
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