The 150th year of college football is something that college programs everywhere have been promoting all season long. Whether it’s jersey patches, logos on the field or ceremonies honoring the past, the 150th year is being well-celebrated. On Tuesday, ESPN did its part.

ESPN has assembled a list of the 150 greatest college football coaches in the history of the game. With a panel of 150 voters that includes the likes of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, CBS writer Dennis Dodd, ESPN personalities like Rece Davis, Chris Fowler, Heather Dinich and countless others.

Paul Bear Bryant tops the list and then the memorable names like Knute Rockne, Joe Paterno and others made the list, as did active coaches like Nick Saban, Dabo Swinney and more.

Then, there’s former Kansas State coach Bill Snyder, who checked in at No. 55 on the list of the top 150 coaches of all-time.

“Snyder rebuilt Kansas State, which had traditionally been one of the sport's most downtrodden programs, not once but twice,” ESPN wrote. “When the Wildcats hired Snyder in 1988, he inherited a program coming off its second consecutive winless season. He guided the Wildcats to a winning record in his third season and to the first of 11 straight bowl games in the fifth. After his retirement in 2006, Kansas State slipped back into mediocrity. He returned and won 79 games in 10 seasons in his second act.”

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No. 55 on the list is certainly an honor to what Snyder did in his time in Manhattan. However, one could probably argue that he could have finished higher on the list. You know the story, but it’s always worth telling again.

Coming to Manhattan from the University of Iowa in 1989 Snyder, then an offensive coordinator for the Hawkeyes, inherited what was the worst college football program of all-time. K-State had lost 26-straight games from one point in the 1986 season, through the 1988 season. Before Snyder arrived, then-coach Stan Parrish went just 2-30-1 with the Wildcats in his three years.

Snyder brought a massive change, though.

The Wildcats went just 1-10 in Snyder’s first season, but the impact of his presence was already being felt. K-State went 5-6, 7-4 and 5-6 in the next three seasons. Before that 1990 season, the last time K-State had won five games or more was 1982.

In 1993, Snyder took K-State to its first bowl game in 11 seasons, as the Wildcats defeated Wyoming in the Copper Bowl. Snyder would take K-State to 11-straight bowl games starting with that Copper Bowl, including wins in the Holiday Bowl (three times), Fiesta Bowl and Cotton Bowl.

Snyder, who retired in December of 2018, ended his career with a record of 215-117. Snyder won two Big 12 Championships at K-State, first in 2003 and the second in 2012, as well as finishing his career with a bowl record of 9-10. He never coached as a head coach anywhere else, despite multiple attempts by other large schools to pull him out of Manhattan.

“Coach Snyder leaves an incredible legacy of success in many parts of college football and the coaching fraternity,” said former Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops, who finished 29th on ESPN’s top 150 list. “He developed a program that hadn’t had much success before he arrived into one that year in and year out was a strong and respected as any out there. He sustained that over a long period of time. And he didn’t do it just once, he did it twice.”