By: Larry Burton
It’s enough that Saban dominates all active coaches with most all of his records, but to out do every coach in the record back dating back to the beginning, well that’s something else indeed.
With three first round picks yesterday, Nick Saban passed the past leader, Joe Paterno, and now has the all time lead with 34 first round picks. Here’s the list in case you want to see how others rate:
Joe Paterno — 33
Bobby Bowden — 32
Woody Hayes — 27
Mack Bown — 21
Lou Holtz — 20
Tom Osborne — 19
Paul “Bear” Bryant 18
John McKay — 18
Note that no active coach even makes the list.