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1.
  Famous College Football Coaches   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is about famous college football coaches. I'll provide plenty of clues and you must choose the correct coach and school from those given.
Average, 10 Qns, HarryTripper, May 21 12
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HarryTripper
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  SEC Coaches    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A quiz matching multiple coaches with the SEC football program.
Average, 10 Qns, workisboring, Feb 24 12
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workisboring gold member
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  Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a very simple quiz about one of the greatest coach to ever grace the sidelines of college football, Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. I hope you have fun.
Average, 10 Qns, Uga76, Mar 17 07
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Uga76
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  College Football Coach Nick Saban    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Nick Saban is my name; coaching football is my game. This is a basic quiz about my background. Let's see how much you already know.
Tough, 10 Qns, DieHard, May 15 03
Tough
DieHard
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  Florida Under Steve Spurrier 1990-2001    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz covers Steve Spurrier's football coaching at the University of Florida from 1990-2001. I hope you have fun.
Average, 10 Qns, tygator14, Jan 14 08
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tygator14
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  Kansas State - Bill Snyder    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A quiz on Wildcats coach, Bill Snyder. Enjoy.
Average, 10 Qns, wildcatfan1, Feb 26 07
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wildcatfan1
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  Replacing Legends    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Questions about coaches who replaced legends. I give you a coach and you tell me who replaced him as head coach of the school.
Difficult, 10 Qns, bsd987, Apr 26 08
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bsd987
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trivia question Quick Question
Where did Coach Bryant get his first experience as an assistant coach?

From Quiz "Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant"





NCAA Football Coaches Trivia Questions
1. Where did Steve Spurrier, Ray Graves and Doug Dickey coach?

From Quiz SEC Coaches

Answer: Florida Gators

All three coaches won over 100 games at Florida. Spurrier won 150 games , Graves won 105 qames and Dickey won 103. 1960-1969 : Ray Graves 1970-1978 : Doug Dickey 1990-2001 : Steve Spurrier

2. Few coaches defined a school as much as Paul "Bear" Bryant defined Alabama football. Who replaced him upon his retirement at Alabama after the 1982 season?

From Quiz Replacing Legends

Answer: Ray Perkins

Perkins lasted only four years in the impossible task of replacing Bryant.

3. Who was coach Snyder's mentor while being an assistant coach?

From Quiz Kansas State - Bill Snyder

Answer: Hayden Fry

Hayden Fry coached the University of Iowa with Bill Snyder by his side.

4. Where was Paul Bryant born?

From Quiz Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

Answer: Fordyce, Arkansas

Paul Bryant was born and raised in Moro Bottom, located in the city of Fordyce, Arkansas. He played football for the Fordyce Redbugs. They went undefeated and won the state championship in 1930, his senior year. He eventually earned a scholarship to the University of Alabama.

5. Where did Johnny Vaught, David Cutcliffe and Houston Nutt coach?

From Quiz SEC Coaches

Answer: University of Mississippi

All three coaches won January bowls at Ole Miss. Vaught won the Sugar, Cotton and Gator bowls. Cutcliffe won the 2003 Cotton bowl and Nutt won two Cotton bowls. 1947-1970 : Johnny Vaught (plus 1973) 1998-2004 : David Cutcliffe 2008-2011 : Houston Nutt

6. Football in the Pacific Northwest was never that big until Don James took over Washington and led it to a national championship. Who replaced James as coach of the Huskies after he resigned following the 1992 season?

From Quiz Replacing Legends

Answer: Jim Lambright

Lambright never returned Washington to the heights it had before James resigned in the face of NCAA investigations. He was fired after a 6-6 season in 1998.

7. What was Bill's first year on the job at Kansas State?

From Quiz Kansas State - Bill Snyder

Answer: 1989

In his first year at K-State, he was a terrible 1-10, but soon turned it around to a winning record.

8. Where did Phillip Fulmer, Johnny Majors and Robert Neyland coach?

From Quiz SEC Coaches

Answer: University of Tennessee

All three coaches won SEC titles at the University of Tennessee. Neyland won 5 conference titles, Fulmer won 2 conference titles and Majors won 3. Fulmer replaced Majors as the coach of the University of Tennessee during the 1992 season. 1925-1952 : Robert Neyland (not 1935 or WW2) 1977-1992 : Johnny Majors 1992-2008 : Phillip Fulmer

9. Where did Bill finish his college career as a student in 1962?

From Quiz Kansas State - Bill Snyder

Answer: William Jewel College

He started out at Missouri, but after a terrible academic first semester, he transfered to William Jewel College.

10. Who was the first African-American recruited and signed to a scholarship by Coach Bryant?

From Quiz Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

Answer: Wilbur Jackson

Wilbur Jackson from Ozark, Alabama, signed in 1969. Though legend has it that in 1970, USC's Sam Cunningham's performance against Alabama had convinced Coach Bryant to recruit African American athletes, Coach Bryant had already recruited and signed Jackson the previous December. Coach Bryant did say, "Cunningham did more for integration in Alabama in sixty minutes than Martin Luther King did in twenty years."

11. Where did Paul "Bear" Bryant, Nick Saban and Gene Stallings coach?

From Quiz SEC Coaches

Answer: University of Alabama

All three coaches won national titles at the University of Alabama. Bear Bryant won six national titles, Stallings won one national (1992) and Nick Saban won two national titles at Alabama (2009 and 2011). An Alabama player won the school's first Heisman Trophy in 2009 when running back Mark Ingram won the award. 1958-1982 : Bear Bryant 1990-1996 : Gene Stallings 2007 - : Nick Saban

12. Frank Broyles is an Arkansas institution. First, he won a national title as the Razorbacks' head coach. Then he was the Athletic Director for three decades. Who replaced him when he retired as head coach following the 1976 season?

From Quiz Replacing Legends

Answer: Lou Holtz

Lou Holtz himself would become a legend at Notre Dame, winning the national title in 1988.

13. Who did Bill Snyder succeed as Kansas State football coach?

From Quiz Kansas State - Bill Snyder

Answer: Stan Parrish

After a lackluster career for Stan, Bill stepped in and got it done.

14. Where did Coach Bryant get his first experience as an assistant coach?

From Quiz Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

Answer: Union College, Tennessee

Coach Bryant's first experience as a college coach came in 1935, when he went to Union College in Jackson, Tennessee, to install Notre Dame's box offense.

15. This move was a dream come true: I was offered a job coaching secondary for Frank Cignetti at __________ ?

From Quiz College Football Coach Nick Saban

Answer: West Virginia

Saban and his wife Terry were both eager to return to West Virginia. It was Cignetti's first season as head coach at West Virginia and he was replacing Bobby Bowden.

16. Where did Ralph "Shug" Jordan, Terry Bowden and Gene Chizik coach?

From Quiz SEC Coaches

Answer: Auburn University

All three coaches had an undefeated season at Auburn. Jordan's team went undefeated in 1957, Bowden's team was undefeated in 1993 and Chizik's team was undefeated in 2010. The first three Heisman Trophy winners at Auburn were Pat Sullivan (1971), Bo Jackson (1985) and Cam Newton (2010).

17. Stanford hasn't always been a PAC-10 bottom-feeder. For nine years, they were coached by Glenn "Pop" Warner, making three Rose Bowls along the way. Who replaced Warner when he went to Temple before the 1933 season?

From Quiz Replacing Legends

Answer: Claude Thornhill

After making the Rose Bowl in his first three seasons, Thornhill suffered through four consecutive losing seasons and lost his job.

18. What year was Billy Dean Snyder born?

From Quiz Kansas State - Bill Snyder

Answer: 1939

He was born in 1939 in St. Joseph, Missouri to Tom and Marionetta Snyder.

19. Cignetti was fired after two years and I was retained by Don Nehlen, but left to replace Pete Carroll as defensive backfield coach under Earl Bruce at _________ ?

From Quiz College Football Coach Nick Saban

Answer: Ohio State

Saban stayed at Ohio State for two season before leaving for the Naval Academy where he stayed for one year.

20. Where did Bobbie Johnson, Art Guepe and James Franklin coach?

From Quiz SEC Coaches

Answer: Vanderbilt University

All three coaches led Vanderbilt to a bowl game. Johnson led Vanderbilt to the 2008 Music City Bowl, Franklin led Vanderbilt to the 2011 Liberty Bowl and Guepe led Vanderbilt to the 1955 Gator Bowl.

21. Who was the closest to getting a Heisman Trophy under coach Snyder?

From Quiz Kansas State - Bill Snyder

Answer: Michael Bishop

Bishop finished second to Longhorn Rickey Williams in 1998.

22. After leaving Ohio State and a short stay at the Naval Academy I become defensive coordinator and defensive backfield coach for a team I would later return to as head coach. Which college team?

From Quiz College Football Coach Nick Saban

Answer: Michigan State

As MSU head coach, Saban replaced Georges Perles and led a probation inflicted Michigan State team back to prominence in his five years there. Michigan State finished 9-2 in Saban's final year and beat Florida 37-34 in the Citrus Bowl.

23. Where did Sylvester Croom, Jackie Sherrill and Emory Bellard coach?

From Quiz SEC Coaches

Answer: Mississippi State University

All three coaches won bowl games while at Mississippi State University. Croom won the 2007 Peach Bowl, Sherrill won the 1999 Peach Bow and Bellard won the 1981 Hall of Fame Classic. Sylvester Croom (2004-2008) was the first African-American head football coach in SEC history.

24. Long before Rice became the laughingstock of college football, Jess Neely guided the Owls to appearances in the Cotton Bowl, Orange Bowl, and Sugar Bowl. Who replaced Jess Neely at Rice when he retired after the 1966 season?

From Quiz Replacing Legends

Answer: Harold "Bo" Hagan

Hagan took over in 1967 on Neely's retirement. He went 12-27-1 in four seasons.

25. What team did Kansas State lose to in the 1998 Big 12 title?

From Quiz Kansas State - Bill Snyder

Answer: Texas A&M

Kansas State was on the verge of going to the National Title while ahead of A&M in the 3rd quarter. But after a big and devestating comeback, the Aggies won in double overtime and crushed the Wildcats hopes of winning a title.

26. Where did Sparky Woods, Jim Carlen and Joe Morrison coach?

From Quiz SEC Coaches

Answer: University of South Carolina

The USC Gamecocks joined the SEC in 1992. Sparky Woods was the South Carolina coach in 1992. The Gamecocks had previosuly left the Atlantic Coast Conference to become an independent in 1971. 1975-1981 : Jim Carlen 1983-1988 : Joe Morrison 1989-1993 : Sparky Woods

27. Central Michigan, unlike most MAC schools, was able to maintain coaching stability thanks to Herb Deromedi. He won 110 games in 16 seasons in Mount Pleasant. Who replaced Deromedi at Central Michigan for the 1994 season?

From Quiz Replacing Legends

Answer: Dick Flynn

Deromedi himself replaced Roy Kramer, a legend in his own right. Kramer left CMU to become the Athletic Director at Vanderbilt before becoming SEC commissioner.

28. What was the only year Bill won National Coach of the Year?

From Quiz Kansas State - Bill Snyder

Answer: 1998

After a perfect regular season, Bill was given the highest award to a coach possible.

29. Who was the only Heisman Trophy winner Coach Bryant recruited and coached?

From Quiz Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

Answer: John David Crow

John David Crow arrived in College Station, Texas, in the summer of 1954. Freshmen weren't allowed to play varsity football during that era and thus Crowe didn't make the Junction trip of '54. He later won the Heisman Trophy in 1957.

30. Where did Frank Broyles, Bobby Petrino and Ken Hatfield coach?

From Quiz SEC Coaches

Answer: University of Arkansas

All three coaches led the Razorbacks to the Cotton Bowl Classic during their tenure. The Razorbacks were part of the the Southwest Conference before joining the SEC in 1992. 1958-1976 : Frank Broyles 1984-1989 : Ken Hatfield 2008- : Bobby Petrino

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