As part of the 150th anniversary of college football, we’re seeing a lot of “all-time” lists. Sporting News joined the fun on Tuesday, sharing their “Top 10 college football coaches of all time.”

Here is how Sporting News ranked the Top 10 coaches:

  1. Nick Saban
  2. Paul “Bear” Bryant
  3. Tom Osborne
  4. Woody Hayes
  5. Bud Wilkinson
  6. Joe Paterno
  7. Eddie Robinson
  8. Urban Meyer
  9. Glenn “Pop” Warner
  10. Frank Leahy

Three of the coaches coached in the SEC at Alabama (Bryant, Saban), Florida (Meyer), Kentucky (Bryant) and LSU (Saban). Warner coached at Georgia (1895-96) before the Bulldogs joined the SEC (1933). Bryant also coached at Texas A&M (1954-57) while the Aggies were in the Southwest Conference.

Here is what author Mike Decourcy writes of Saban at No. 1:

One of the curiosities of Saban’s dominance is that, despite his seven championships, he has enjoyed only a single undefeated season, in 2009, when the Tide averaged nearly a three-touchdown winning margin and wrecked Texas in the BCS championship game. But he also has never endured a losing season and rung up double-digit victories for 11 (soon to be 12) consecutive years. Throughout that stretch, every one of those teams reached the No. 1 poll ranking during the season, and five finished on top. Saban is leader of a new breed of college coaches: more business-like (he holds a degree in business from Kent State) and less colorful (except when he appears as himself in “The Blind Side” or makes a humorous commercial for AFLAC) than many past legends. His facility at attracting elite talent and developing those prospects who choose to play for Alabama has not only led to team success, but also to 18 NFL first-round picks.

Decourcy’s full article with summaries of Bryant, Meyer, Warner and the rest of the top 10 can be read here.