Glenn Schumann joined a very exclusive club on Monday night.

The Georgia co-defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach picked up his sixth national championship ring after the Bulldogs pounded TCU 65-7 in the College Football Playoff title game in Los Angeles. Schumann also won a ring at Georgia last season, and did so four times at Alabama — in 2009 as a student assistant coach, in 2011 and 2012 as a graduate assistant and in 2015 as director of player personnel.

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Schumann, who is 32, is one of 11 men who have been a part of at least six national championship teams as a player, coach or athletic director. Numerous big-name coaches have won five rings over the years, including Woody Hayes, Tom Osborne, Robert Neyland and Ed Orgeron, as well as lesser-known names such as Burton Burns, Bill Oliver and Ken Donahue.

But six seems to be a pretty heavy line of demarcation. Only a select few have won “one for the thumb” (or more), as it were.

(A quick caveat: national championships were a somewhat nebulous thing before the poll era began in the 1930s, and only got slightly more definable until the BCS era began in 1998. But if a school claims a national championship for a given year, we’re crediting the applicable player or coach with one).

That disclaimer out of the way, here are 10 other men on the list, along with Schumann:

6 national championships

Howard Jones, Yale/Iowa/USC

Jones won nearly 200 games in a 33-year career at six different schools. His teams were credited with national championships at Yale in 1909, Iowa in 1921 and 1928 and USC in 1931, 1932 and 1939. (He was also athletics director at Iowa).

Frank Leahy, Notre Dame

Another coaching legend, Leahy went 107-13-9 in 15 seasons at Boston College and Notre Dame. He won a pair of national titles as a tackle for Knute Rockne’s Fighting Irish in 1920 and 1930, and coached his alma mater to titles in 1943, 1946, 1947 and 1949. He served as AD during the final two title runs.

Kirby Smart, Alabama/Georgia

Like Schumann, Smart joined the “6-timers club” on Monday. He was defensive coordinator in Alabama’s 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015 teams, then won titles as head coach at Georgia in 2021 and 2022. At just 47 years old, there’s no telling how many rings he’ll have before he’s done.

Bud Wilkinson, Minnesota/Oklahoma

Wilkinson was part of two of college football’s great dynasties, Minnesota in the 1930s and Oklahoma in the 1950s. He quarterbacked the Golden Gophers to titles in 1934, 1935 and 1936 (the latter the first year of the Associated Press poll) and was head coach and AD for the Sooners during championship seasons in 1950, 1955 and 1956. Had he not stepped down in 1963 at age 47 to run for the U.S. Senate, he might have added even more.

Fielding “Hurry Up” Yost, Michigan

One of the first great college football coaches outside the Ivy League, Yost’s Michigan teams dominated Midwestern football for the first two decades of the 20th century. His Wolverines were credited with four straight national championships from 1901-04, then added titles in 1918 and 1923. He stepped down from coaching in 1926, but remained on as AD for another 14 years.

Paul “Bear” Bryant, Alabama

The man synonymous with college football in the state of Alabama in the 20th century was a starting end on Alabama’s 1934 national championship team. He returned to his alma mater as head coach and athletic director in 1958, and won national titles in 1961, 1964, 1965, 1973, 1978 and 1979. He narrowly missed out on two or three others as well.

Edwin “Moose” Krause, Notre Dame

An All-American in both football and basketball, Krause just missed out being part of the Rockne dynasty during his playing days at Notre Dame. However, he was an assistant for Leahy on the 1943, 1946 and 1947 national championship teams. He ascended to athletics director two years later, with the Fighting Irish adding titles in 1949, 1966 and 1973 and 1977.

Nick Saban, LSU/Alabama

Saban has the most national championships in college football history exclusively as a head coach, winning the title at LSU in 2003 and at Alabama in 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2020. He’s narrowly missed a few other times, and might have a few more championship runs in him despite turning 72 later this year.

8 national championships

Scott Cochran, LSU/Alabama/Georgia

Cochran surpassed his old boss Saban on Monday night, winning his second straight championship as Georgia’s special teams coordinator. He also won titles as a strength & conditioning assistant at LSU in 2003 and as head strength coach at Alabama in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2017 before leaving to join Smart with the Bulldogs. He’s just 43, so he could add several to this number in the coming years.

10 national championships

Mal Moore, Alabama

Moore stands alone with one national championship ring for each finger, having won his first championship as a player at Alabama in 1961. He added five titles as a Crimson Tide assistant under Bryant in 1964, 1965, 1973, 1978 and 1992, plus a sixth as Gene Stallings’ quarterbacks coach in 1992. He became athletics director in 1999 (famously hiring Saban in 2007), and added rings in 2009, 2011 and 2012. He was still AD when died in 2013 at age 73.

NOTE: We did our best to make this list as comprehensive as possible, but did we miss anyone? Let us know at [email protected].

Creg Stephenson has worked for AL.com since 2010 and has covered college football for a variety of publications since 1994. Contact him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter at @CregStephenson.