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The 'CFB championship head coaches' quiz
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The 'CFB championship head coaches' quiz

Before Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti coached a single game for the Hoosiers, he was asked about how he would be able to sell a program that had more losses than any other team in FBS history to recruits. 

“It’s pretty simple. I win. Google me,” was his response. 

Two seasons later, that has become prophetic. 

Cignetti and Indiana have gone a combined 27-2 over those two seasons, won a share of the Big 10 championship for the first time since 1967 and equaled the number of bowl wins in the program’s first 125 seasons with three in 2025-26 en route to their first-ever national title. 

Which brings us to today’s quiz. How many of the national championship-winning head coaches for each college football season since 2000 can you name in five minutes?

Good luck!

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SCORE:
0/27
TIME:
5:00
2025 / Indiana
Curt Cignetti
2024 / Ohio State
Ryan Day
2023 / Michigan
Jim Harbaugh
2022 / Georgia
Kirby Smart
2021 / Georgia
Kirby Smart
2020 / Alabama
Nick Saban
2019 / LSU
Ed Orgeron
2018 / Clemson
Dabo Swinney
2017 / Alabama
Nick Saban
2016 / Clemson
Dabo Swinney
2015 / Alabama
Nick Saban
2014 / Ohio State
Urban Meyer
2013 / FSU
Jimbo Fisher
2012 / Alabama
Nick Saban
2011 / Alabama
Nick Saban
2010 / Auburn
Gene Chizik
2009 / Alabama
Nick Saban
2008 / Florida
Urban Meyer
2007 / LSU
Les Miles
2006 / Florida
Urban Meyer
2005 / Texas
Mack Brown
2004 / USC*
Pete Carroll
2003 / USC
Pete Carroll
2003 / LSU
Nick Saban
2002 / Ohio State
Jim Tressel
2001 / Miami
Larry Coker
2000 / Oklahoma
Bob Stoops

Tommy Fradenburg is a freelance writer and an alumni of UNC Chapel Hill currently based in Charlotte, North Carolina. He religiously follows his favorite teams The New York Yankees and Dallas Cowboys (yes, he knows) as well as his alma mater the Tar Heels and West Ham United F.C. in the Premier League. See more of his work on Twitter @tommyfradenburg.

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