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The Top Ranked College Football Head Coaches of the 1980s
Notes: Only Coaches who were ranked in the top 50 in any season from 1980-1989 appear on this list.
| Rnk | Coach |
| 1 | Joe Paterno |
| 2 | Jimmy Johnson |
| 3 | Lou Holtz |
| 4 | Barry Switzer |
| 5 | Vince Dooley |
| 6 | Danny Ford |
| 7 | LaVell Edwards |
| 8 | Howard Schnellenberger |
| 9 | Dennis Erickson |
| 10 | Tom Osborne |
| 11 | Bo Schembechler |
| 12 | Bobby Bowden |
| 13 | Jackie Sherrill |
| 14 | Don James |
| 15 | Bobby Collins |
| 16 | Fred Akers |
| 17 | Pat Dye |
| 18 | Galen Hall |
| 19 | Johnny Majors |
| 20 | John Cooper |
| 21 | Dick MacPherson |
| 22 | Bill McCartney |
| 23 | Terry Donahue |
| 24 | Don Nehlen |
| 25 | Jack Bicknell |
| 26 | Mike Archer |
| 27 | Ron Meyer |
| 28 | Darryl Rogers |
| 29 | Charley Pell |
| 30 | Bear Bryant |
| 31 | Earle Bruce |
| 32 | Larry Smith |
| 33 | Pat Jones |
| 34 | George Perles |
| 35 | Fisher DeBerry |
| 36 | Bill Curry |
| 37 | Dick Crum |
| 38 | Ray Perkins |
| 39 | Dan Devine |
| 40 | Hayden Fry |
| 41 | Mike White |
| 42 | Ted Tollner |
| 43 | Bill Arnsparger |
| 44 | Foge Fazio |
| 45 | John Mackovic |
| 46 | Joe Morrison |
| 47 | John Robinson |
| 48 | Jerry Stovall |
| 49 | Ken Hatfield |
| 50 | Bobby Ross |
| 51 | Grant Teaff |
| 52 | Jack Pardee |
| 53 | Mike Gottfried |
| 54 | Jim Young |
| 55 | George Welsh |
| 56 | Jerry Claiborne |
| 57 | Warren Powers |
| 58 | Emory Bellard |
| 59 | Spike Dykes |
| 60 | Bill Dooley |
| 61 | Bill Mallory |
| 62 | Ed Emory |
| 63 | R.C. Slocum |
| 64 | Jack Elway |
| 65 | Paul Roach |
| 66 | Dick Tomey |
| 67 | Rich Brooks |
| 68 | Gerry Faust |
| 69 | Jim Carlen |
| 70 | Bill Yeoman |
| 71 | Paul Wiggin |
| 72 | Claude Gilbert |
| 73 | Curley Hallman |
| 74 | Dick Sheridan |
| 75 | Jim Carmody |
| 76 | Mike Price |
| 77 | Gary Gibbs |
| 78 | Joe Kapp |
| 79 | Tom Wilson |
| 80 | Jim Walden |
| 81 | Dave McClain |
| 82 | Erk Russell |
| 83 | Roy Kidd |
| 84 | Jimmy Satterfield |
| 85 | Jim Criner |
| 86 | Dave Kragthorpe |
| 87 | Rey Dempsey |
| 88 | Dave Arnold |
| 89 | Pat Collins |
| 90 | Dick Anderson |
| 91 | Bruce Arians |
| 92 | Larry Lacewell |
| 93 | Tubby Raymond |
| 94 | George Chaump |
| 95 | Bruce Craddock |
| 96 | A.L. Williams |
| 97 | Lynn Graves |
| 98 | Al Kincaid |
| 99 | Ray Goff |
| 100 | Darrell Mudra |
| 101 | Chris Ault |
| 102 | Billy Brewer |
| 103 | Bob Griffin |
| 104 | Boots Donnelly |
| 105 | Eddie Robinson |
| 106 | Sparky Woods |
| 107 | Bill Davis |
| 108 | John Whitehead |
| 109 | Keith Gilbertson |
| 110 | David McWilliams |
| 111 | John Merritt |
| 112 | Donnie Duncan |
| 113 | Don Read |
| 114 | Rex Dockery |
| 115 | Bob Stull |
| 116 | Rick Carter |
| 117 | W.C. Golden |
| 118 | Corky Nelson |
| 119 | Rick Taylor |
| 120 | Dennis Raetz |
| 121 | Don Fambrough |
| 122 | Al Molde |
| 123 | Dal Shealy |
| 124 | Dave Roberts |
| 125 | Frank Beamer |
| 126 | Fred Dunlap |
| 127 | Jim Tressel |
| 128 | Leon Burtnett |
| 129 | Bill Thomas |
| 130 | Bob Spoo |
| 131 | Dick Zornes |
| 132 | Jesse Branch |
| 133 | Jim Hess |
| 134 | Marino Casem |
| 135 | Sam Goodwin |
| 136 | Sonny Jackson |
| 137 | Jim Sweeney |
| 138 | Steve Spurrier |
| 139 | Doug Barfield |
| 140 | Vince Gibson |
| 141 | Jim Wacker |
| 142 | George MacIntyre |
| 143 | Bob Wagner |
| 144 | Woody Widenhofer |
| 145 | Andy Talley |
| 146 | Jimmye Laycock |
| 147 | Archie Cooley Jr. |
| 148 | Buddy Nix |
| 149 | Charlie Taaffe |
| 150 | Jerry Moore |
| 151 | Jim Dennison |
| 152 | Jim Koetter |
| 153 | Jim Reid |
| 154 | Joe Purzycki |
| 155 | John L. Smith |
| 156 | Larry Donovan |
| 157 | Mo Forte |
| 158 | Randy Ball |
| 159 | Red Wilson |
| 160 | Ron Randleman |
| 161 | Skip Hall |
| 162 | Tim Murphy |
| 163 | Tom Lichtenberg |
| 164 | Wayne Hardin |
| 165 | Dennis Stolz |
| 166 | Jim Dickey |
| 167 | Monte Kiffin |
| 168 | Bruce Snyder |
| 169 | Ray Alborn |
| 170 | John Gutekunst |
| 171 | Frank Burns |
| 172 | Frank Maloney |
| 173 | Herb Deromedi |
| 174 | Chuck Stobart |
| 175 | Jim Fassel |
| 176 | Larry Marmie |
| 177 | Doug Scovil |
| 178 | Ed Chlebek |
| 179 | Harvey Hyde |
| 180 | Joe Krivak |
| 181 | Mack Brown |
| 182 | Gene Murphy |
| 183 | Wayne Howard |
| 184 | Steve Sloan |
| 185 | Lee Corso |
| 186 | Dan Simrell |
| 187 | Earle Solomonson |
| 188 | Don Morton |
| 189 | Rick Rhoades |
| 190 | Rocky Hager |
| 191 | John Williams |
| 192 | Chan Gailey |
| 193 | Joe Harper |
| 194 | Pokey Allen |
| 195 | Wayne Grubb |
| 196 | Jim Sochor |
| 197 | Billy Joe |
| 198 | Dave Triplett |
| 199 | Bill Burgess |
| 200 | Bill Rademacher |
| 201 | Jim Fuller |
| 202 | Phil Albert |
| 203 | Frank Cignetti |
| 204 | Jerry Vandergriff |
| 205 | Ron Harms |
| 206 | Bob Mattos |
| 207 | Gene McDowell |
| 208 | George Landis |
| 209 | Herb Grenke |
| 210 | Pat Malley |
| 211 | Sandy Buda |
| 212 | Vito Ragazzo |
| 213 | Willard Bailey |
| 214 | Bill Hayes |
| 215 | Bill Sylvester |
| 216 | Bob Blasi |
| 217 | Dan Runkle |
| 218 | Dennis Franchione |
| 219 | Don McLeary |
| 220 | Doug Porter |
| 221 | Fred Freeman |
| 222 | Fred Martinelli |
| 223 | Gene Carpenter |
| 224 | Gerald Walker |
| 225 | Henry Lattimore |
| 226 | Joe Taylor |
| 227 | John O'Hara |
| 228 | Johnnie Walton |
| 229 | Noel Martin |
| 230 | Ron Simonson |
| 231 | Vern Thomsen |
| 232 | Jim Heinitz |
| 233 | Bill Lynch |
| 234 | Bob Foster |
| 235 | Bud Elliott |
| 236 | Danny Hale |
| 237 | George Pugh |
| 238 | Pete Richardson |
| 239 | Rick Daniels |
| 240 | Sanders Shiver |
| 241 | Tom Beck |
| 242 | Tom Hollman |
| 243 | Bob Reade |
| 244 | Jim Butterfield |
| 245 | Mike Kelly |
| 246 | Bill Manlove |
| 247 | Walt Hameline |
| 248 | Bobby Pate |
| 249 | Ron Schipper |
| 250 | Al Bagnoli |
| 251 | Mike McGlinchey |
| 252 | Hank Norton |
| 253 | John Luckhardt |
| 254 | John Gagliardi |
| 255 | Dick Smith |
| 256 | Jim Christopherson |
| 257 | Lou Wacker |
| 258 | Barry Streeter |
| 259 | Fred Hill |
| 260 | James Jones |
| 261 | Roger Harring |
| 262 | Ron Roberts |
| 263 | Mickey Kwiatkowski |
| 264 | Dale Widolff |
| 265 | Rick Giancola |
| 266 | Chuck Klausing |
| 267 | Dennis Kayser |
| 268 | Frank Girardi |
| 269 | Ron Labadie |
| 270 | Bill Russo |
| 271 | Bob Berezowitz |
| 272 | Bob Packard |
| 273 | Carl Poelker |
| 274 | Don Ault |
| 275 | Don Birmingham |
| 276 | Don Canfield |
| 277 | Jay Cottone |
| 278 | Jim Blackburn |
| 279 | Ken Wable |
| 280 | Larry Glueck |
| 281 | Larry Kehres |
| 282 | Lee Tressel |
| 283 | Rocky Rees |
| 284 | Ron Murphy |
| 285 | Sam Sanders |
| 286 | Scot Dapp |
| 287 | Jim Williams |
| 288 | Bob Thurness |
| 289 | D.J. LeRoy |
| 290 | Don Charlton |
| 291 | Don LaViolette |
| 292 | Ed Sweeney |
| 293 | Jim Hershberger |
| 294 | Keith Piper |
| 295 | Mike Clary |
| 296 | Paul Pasqualoni |
| 297 | Pete Schmidt |
| 298 | Peter Vaas |
| 299 | Ray Smith |
| 300 | Ray Solari |
| 301 | Ray Tellier |
| 302 | Roger Welsh |
| 303 | Steve Raarup |
| 304 | Tony DeCarlo |
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