- Peyton Manning
Peyton Williams Manning (born March 24, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American football quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts NFL franchise. He is the son of former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning and Olivia Manning. He is the older brother of current New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning and the younger brother of former Ole Miss receiver Cooper Manning, whose college career was cut short by spinal stenosis.
- Vince Young
Vincent Paul Young, Jr. (born May 18, 1983 in Houston, Texas), commonly Vince Young, or "VY", is an American football player. He is a dual-threat quarterback, and the current starting quarterback for the National Football League Tennessee Titans. Young was drafted by the Tennessee Titans as the #3 overall pick in the 2006 NFL Draft on April 29, 2006.
- Les Miles
Les Miles (born November 10, 1953) is an American college football coach and the current head coach of the LSU Tigers. Prior to holding that position, he was head coach at Oklahoma State. He was formerly an assistant at Oklahoma State University as well as with the University of Michigan, the University of Colorado and the Dallas Cowboys.
- Nick Saban
Nick Lou Saban (born October 31, 1951 in Fairmont, West Virginia) is an American college football coach and the current head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide. Saban took the Alabama position after coaching the Miami Dolphins for two years and previously coaching Alabama's SEC Western division rival, LSU. Saban's eight-year contract for a total of $32 million made him the highest paid college football coach in the United States.
- Joe Paterno
Joseph Vincent Paterno (born December 21, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York), nicknamed JoePa, is the head coach of Pennsylvania State University's college football team, a position he has held since 1966.
- Steve Spurrier
Stephen Orr Spurrier (born April 20, 1945 in Miami Beach, Florida) is a former American football player and currently the head coach of the University of South Carolina football team. He was a two-time All-American and is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame as a player.
- Bobby Bowden
Robert Cleckler Bowden (born November 8, 1929 in Birmingham, Alabama), better known as "Bobby Bowden", is the winningest coach in NCAA Division I football history with 366 career wins. Bowden is currently the head coach at the Florida State University, where he has been since 1976.
- Rex Grossman
Rex Grossman is a quarterback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. An Indiana native, Grossman graduated from Bloomington High School South and attended the University of Florida on an athletic scholarship. He led the Florida Gators to two championship games, and was the runner-up for the 2001 Heisman Trophy. Grossman began his professional career with the Chicago Bears as the twenty-second overall selection in the 2003 NFL Draft, …
- Lloyd Carr
Lloyd H. Carr (born July 30, 1945) has served as head coach of the University of Michigan football team since 1995. Through the end of the 2006 season, Carr has a record of 113-36. Under Carr, the Wolverines have won or shared five Big Ten titles (in 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003, and 2004), and his 1997 squad was declared the Associated Press national champion.
- Mack Brown
William Mack Brown (born August 27, 1951) is head coach of the University of Texas Longhorn football team. During the 2005 season, Coach Brown led the Longhorns to a Rose Bowl victory and a National Championship. With the 2006 season, Brown led his team to win 10 games or more for six straight years, which is the best current ten-win streak in the NCAA. Prior to coaching at Texas, Brown coached at Appalachian State, Tulane, and North Carolina.
- Steve Smith
Steve Smith (born May 6, 1985 in Alaska) is a college football wide receiver. Sometimes he is referred to as Steven Smith to avoid confusion with the NFL Player who plays with the Carolina Panthers.
- Ricky Williams
Errick Lynne Williams, Jr. (born May 21, 1977 in San Diego, California) is an American football running back whose NFL rights are held by the Miami Dolphins. He was originally drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the first round (fifth overall) of the 1999 NFL Draft. He played collegiately at Texas.
- Erin Andrews
Erin Andrews (born on May 4, 1978 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a television sports reporter. Andrews joined ESPN in May 2004 as a reporter for the network's National Hockey League coverage. Since the 2004 season, Andrews has served as a reporter for the ESPN College Football Saturday telecast, the Saturday Primetime college basketball game and Big Ten college basketball coverage. In 2005, she added Major League Baseball sideling reporting to her duties.
- Bear Bryant
Paul William "Bear" Bryant was an American college football coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team, and is the namesake of the Paul W. Bryant Museum.
- Doug Flutie
Douglas Richard "Doug" Flutie (born October 23, 1962) is an American former professional gridiron football player in the National Football League (American football) and Canadian Football League (Canadian football). Within the United States, he is perhaps best known for his career at Boston College and for the Boston College v. Miami game on November 23, 1984, in which his "Hail Mary" pass won the game for BC 47-45.
- Jason Campbell
Jason Campbell (born December 31, 1981 in Laurel, Mississippi, USA) is an American football quarterback of the Washington Redskins. A 2000 graduate of Taylorsville High School in Taylorsville, Mississippi, Campbell went on to play college football at Auburn where he led the Tigers to an undefeated season in 2004 and was named the SEC Player of the Year and MVP of the SEC Championship Game. Campbell currently holds the longest touchdown completion in Auburn football history, …
- Frank Beamer
Frank Beamer (b. October 18, 1946 in Mount Airy, North Carolina) is the current head coach of the Virginia Tech college football program. Beamer grew up in Hillsville, Virginia where he earned 11 varsity letters in high school as a three-sport athlete in football, basketball, and baseball. He then attended Virginia Tech and was a starting cornerback for three years on the football team, playing in the 1966 and 1968 Liberty Bowls.
- Jimmy Johnson
James William Johnson (born August 14, 1943) is an American football coach and broadcaster. He was the first football coach whose teams won both a NCAA Division 1A National Championship and a Super Bowl. In 1987, Johnson wrote "Turning The Thing Around: My Life in Football" (ghostwritten by Ed Hinton). Johnson currently lives in Islamorada in the Florida Keys where he spends most of his time fishing.
- Tommy Tuberville
Thomas H. Tuberville, (born September 18, 1954) is an American college football coach and current head coach of the Auburn Tigers football team.
- Jimmy Johnson
James Earl Johnson (born March 31, 1938 in Dallas, Texas) was an American football cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers. In 1994, he was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He played both offense and defense as a college football player at the UCLA. His brother is Rafer Johnson, an Olympic Decathlon Gold Medalist.
- O. J. Simpson
Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson (born July 9, 1947) (also known by his nickname, The Juice) is a retired American football player who achieved stardom at the collegiate and professional levels, and was the first NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season. He later worked as an actor, spokesperson and broadcaster. Simpson is infamous for having been tried for the murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994.
- Mark Schlabach
Mark Schlabach is an author and columnist for ESPN.com. Schlabach joined ESPN.com in July of 2006 as a college football and college basketball columnist. Schlabach graduated from the University of Georgia. He spent nine years at the "Atlanta Journal-Constitution", covering University of Georgia, the Southeastern Conference, the NFL, and NASCAR. Later, Schlabach spent two years at the "Washington Post" covering college football, college basketball, and boxing.
- Mike Williams
Michael "Mike" Williams (born January 4, 1984 in Tampa, Florida) is an American football wide receiver who currently plays for the Oakland Raiders. As a star in college he set USC freshman records for touchdowns and yards as a wide receiver. Williams declared for the 2004 NFL Draft, but he was declined by a federal judge. He could not return to college afterwards because he had already hired an agent.
- Kirk Herbstreit
Kirk Herbstreit (born August 19, 1969, Centerville, Ohio) is an analyst for ESPN's "College GameDay", a television program covering college football and a provider of color commentary during college football games on ESPN and ABC. He appears annually as a commentator in EA Sports' NCAA Football.
- Karl Dorrell
Karl Dorrell (b. December 18, 1963 in Alameda, California) is the first black head coach in the history of the UCLA Bruins college football team, a position he took on December 18, 2002. He attended Helix High School in La Mesa, California, where he was a two-time all-league selection and a honorable mention All-America as a senior. He led Helix to the CIF San Diego Section title in 1980 and to second place in 1981. He is married and has two children.
- Colt McCoy
Daniel "Colt" McCoy (born September 5, 1986 in Hobbs, New Mexico) is a quarterback for the Texas Longhorn college football team. As a redshirt freshman in 2006, he was the starting quarterback for the 2006 Longhorn team. On November 4 2006, McCoy threw his 27th touchdown pass in a win against Oklahoma State, to take sole possession of the UT school record for most touchdowns ever thrown by a quarterback in a single season.
- Phillip Fulmer
Phillip Fulmer (born September 1, 1950 in Winchester, Tennessee), is the head football coach at the University of Tennessee, where he has been since 1992. Fulmer is the 20th head football coach in the history of the school.
- Mark Thomas Mangino
Mark Thomas Mangino popularly known as Mark Mangino is the head coach of the Kansas Jayhawks College football team. He had been the coach of the football team since 2002. Before he was the coach to the Jayhawks team he had worked at Kansas State and Oklahoma as an assistant coach. He had been a remarkable coach in 2007 and leaded the Jayhawks team to their 11-win season making a history in their school.
- Stewart Mandel
Stewart Mandel is a sports writer for SI.com, focusing on college football. He currently writes the "College Football Mailbag" (The Mailbag) column, numerous individual features, and a College Football Blog. He also writes about men's college basketball. He is an AP voter in the NCAA Football AP poll. Stewart was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, attending Sycamore High School, and is a graduate of Northwestern University (1998) with a degree in Journalism.
- Kellen Clemens
Roy Kellen Clemens (born June 6, 1983 in Burns, Oregon) is a current American football quarterback for the New York Jets. He was drafted in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played high school football for the Burns Hilanders and led them to the Oregon state 3A championship game in 1999. Clemens played college football at the University of Oregon. He was a senior during the 2005 season, …
- Bo Schembechler
Glenn Edward "Bo" Schembechler (April 1 1929 - November 17 2006) was an American college football coach best known as the head coach at the University of Michigan, where he coached the Wolverines from 1969 until 1989. Schembechler won a total of 234 games; only Joe Paterno and Tom Osborne have recorded 200 victories in fewer games. A consummate "coach's coach", Schembechler combined superb technical command of the game with a fiery disposition.
- Jim Zorn
HOFJames Arthur Zorn (born May 10, 1953 in Whittier, California, USA) was an American football quarterback, best known for starting for the Seattle Seahawks National Football League franchise their first seven seasons, until being replaced by Dave Krieg midway through the 1983 season, the Seahawks' first playoff campaign. The left-handed passing Zorn is closely associated with his favorite target, …
- Andre Johnson
Andre T. Johnson (born August 25, 1973 in Southhampton, New York) was an American football offensive lineman in the NFL for the Washington Redskins and the Detroit Lions. He played college football for Penn State University.
- Larry Coker
Larry Coker (born June 23, 1948 in Okemah, Oklahoma) is the former head coach at the University of Miami from 2001 to 2006. He was fired by the University of Miami on November 24, 2006 following a 6-loss season.
- Dennis Erickson
Dennis Erickson (born March 24, 1947, in Everett, Washington) is the head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils football team. He has been the head coach of six college football programs and two NFL franchises.
- Mark Sanchez
Mark Sanchez (born on November 11 1986) is a Latino college football quarterback attending the University of Southern California (USC). He is of Mexican ethnicity.
- Kirk Ferentz
Kirk Ferentz (born August 1, 1955, in Royal Oak, Michigan) is an American college football head coach of the University of Iowa Hawkeyes.
- Woody Hayes
Wayne Woodrow “Woody” Hayes was a college football coach who is best remembered for his 28-year tenure at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, from 1951-1978.
- Brian Davis
Brian Wesley Davis (born August 31, 1963 in Phoenix, Arizona) was an American football cornerback in the NFL for the Washington Redskins, the Seattle Seahawks, the San Diego Chargers, and the Minnesota Vikings. He played college football for the University of Nebraska.
- James Laurinaitis
James Laurinaitis (born December 3, 1986) is an American football linebacker for the Ohio State Buckeyes. Laurinaitis, who grew up in Hamel, Minnesota, is currently the starting middle linebacker at Ohio State and is listed at 6'3", 244 lb (1.91 m, 111 kg). Considered one of the top linebackers in college football during the 2006 season, he was awarded the 2006 Nagurski Trophy, named a finalist for the 2006 Butkus Award for top college linebacker, …