List of Florida Gators head football coaches
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Florida Gators football
The Florida Gators football team represents the University of Florida in the sport of American football. The Florida Gators compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletics Association and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference...
team that represents the University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
in the sport of American football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
. The Florida Gators currently compete in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association
National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...
(NCAA), and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference
Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference that operates in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama...
(SEC). Twenty-three men have served as the Gators' head coach, including three who served as interim head coach, since the Gators began play in the fall of 1906
1906 Florida Gators football team
The Florida Gators football team represents the University of Florida in the sport of American football. The University of Florida fielded its first official varsity football team in the fall of 1906, and has fielded a team every season since then, with the exception of 1943...
. In December 2010, Will Muschamp
Will Muschamp
William Larry "Will" Muschamp is an American college football coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Florida Gators football team of the University of Florida. He is a native of Georgia and attended the University of Georgia, where he played for the Georgia Bulldogs...
was hired as the Gators' latest head coach and Muschamp assumed full responsibility for the team after his predecessor, Urban Meyer
Urban Meyer
Urban Frank Meyer, III is an American football coach and former player. He is head football coach at Ohio State University, having been hired for the position in November 2011...
, coached the Gators in their January 2011 bowl game.
The Gators have fielded a team every season since 1906, with the exception of 1943, and have played more than 1,000 games during 104 seasons. During that time, eleven coaches have led the Gators in postseason bowl game
Bowl game
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s: George E. Pyle, Bob Woodruff, Ray Graves
Ray Graves
Samuel Ray Graves is a former American college and professional football player and former college football coach. He is a native of Tennessee and an alumnus of the University of Tennessee, where he played college football...
, Doug Dickey
Doug Dickey
Douglas Adair "Doug" Dickey is a former American college football player and coach and college athletics administrator. Dickey is a South Dakota native who was raised in Florida and graduated from the University of Florida, where he played college football...
, Charley Pell
Charley Pell
Charles Byron "Charley" Pell was an American college football player and coach. Pell was an Alabama native and an alumnus of the University of Alabama, where he played college football. He is most notably remembered as the head coach of the Clemson University and the University of Florida...
, Galen Hall
Galen Hall
Galen Samuel Hall is an American college and professional football coach and former player. He is a native of Pennsylvania, and an alumnus of Penn State University, where he played college football...
, Gary Darnell
Gary Darnell
Gary Brent Darnell is a former American college football player and coach. Darnell is native of Arkansas and an alumnus of Oklahoma State University, where he played college football...
, Steve Spurrier
Steve Spurrier
Stephen Orr Spurrier is an American college football coach and player. Spurrier is the current head coach of the University of South Carolina's Gamecocks football team. He is also a former professional player and coach...
, Ron Zook
Ron Zook
Ron Zook is a former American football coach and former player. He served as the head football coach at the University of Florida from 2002 to 2004 and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2005 to 2011. Zook is a native of Ohio and an alumnus of Miami University, where he...
, Charlie Strong
Charlie Strong
Charlie R. Strong is an American college football coach and former player. Strong is a native of Arkansas and graduated from the University of Central Arkansas, where he played college football...
and Urban Meyer
Urban Meyer
Urban Frank Meyer, III is an American football coach and former player. He is head football coach at Ohio State University, having been hired for the position in November 2011...
. Two Gators coaches have also won SEC championships: Spurrier won six, and Meyer won two. During their tenures, Spurrier won one and Meyer won two national championships
NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship
A college football national championship in the highest level of collegiate play in the United States, currently the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision , is a designation awarded annually by various third-party organizations to their selection of the best...
with the Gators.
Spurrier is the leader in seasons coached, games won and winning percentage, with 122 victories and a winning percentage of .817 during his twelve years leading the program. Raymond Wolf
Raymond Wolf
Raymond Bernard "Bear" Wolf was an American football player and coach. Wolf was a native of Illinois and an alumnus of Texas Christian University, where he played college football and baseball...
has the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with .359. Of the twenty-three head coaches who have led the Gators, Charlie Bachman
Charlie Bachman
Charles William "Charlie" Bachman, Jr. was an American college football player and head coach. Bachman was an Illinois native and an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame, where he played college football...
, and Dickey have been inducted as head coaches into the College Football Hall of Fame
College Football Hall of Fame
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in South Bend, Indiana
South Bend, Indiana
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.
Key
| # | Order of coaches |
| DCs | Division championships |
| CCs | Conference championships |
| NCs | National Championships |
| Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame College Football Hall of Fame The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football. Located in South Bend, Indiana, it is connected to a convention center and situated in the city's renovated downtown district, two miles south of the University of Notre Dame campus. It is slated to move... |
| GC | Games coached |
| OW | Wins |
| OL | Losses |
| OT | Ties |
| O% | Winning percentage Winning percentage In sports, a winning percentage is the fraction of games or matches a team or individual has won. It is defined as wins divided by wins plus losses . Ties count as a ½ loss and a ½ win... |
| CW | Wins |
| CL | Losses |
| CT | Ties |
| C% | Winning percentage |
| PW | Wins |
| PL | Losses |
| PT | Ties |
Coaches
- The statistics below are correct and complete through the end of the 2010 college football season2010 NCAA Division I FBS football seasonThe 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season, or the college football season, began on Thursday, September 2, 2010. The season progressed through the regular season and bowl season, and concluded with the Tostitos BCS National Championship Game on Monday, January 10, 2011.-Rule changes for...
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| # | Name | Term | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | PT | DCs | CCs | NCs | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1906–1908 | 22 | 14 | 6 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | ||
| 2 | 1909–1913 | 36 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 3 | 1914–1916 | 19 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 4 | 1917–1919 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 5 | 1920–1922 | 29 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 6 | 1923–1924 | 19 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 7 | 1925–1927 | 30 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 8 | 1928–1932 | 48 | 27 | 18 | 3 | 19 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 9 | 1933–1935 | 29 | 14 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 10 | 1936–1939 | 43 | 17 | 24 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 11 | 1940–1942 1944–1945 |
47 | 20 | 26 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 12 | 1946–1949 | 39 | 13 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 13 | 1950–1959 | 101 | 53 | 42 | 6 | 29 | 32 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 14 | 1960–1969 | 105 | 70 | 31 | 4 | 38 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 15 | 1970–1978 | 103 | 58 | 43 | 2 | 28 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 16 | 1979–1984 | 62 | 33 | 26 | 3 | 14 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 17 | 1984–1989 | 59 | 40 | 18 | 1 | 21 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 18 | 1989 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 19 | 1990–2001 | 150 | 122 | 27 | 1 | 87 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 1 – 1996 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season The 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Florida Gators crowned National Champions, but not as unanimously as the Bowl Alliance would have hoped.... |
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| 20 | 2002–2004 | 37 | 23 | 14 | — | 16 | 8 | — | 0 | 2 | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 21 | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 22 | 2005–2010 | 80 | 65 | 15 | — | 36 | 13 | — | 5 | 1 | — | 3 | 2 | 2 – 2006, 2008 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season The 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season, or the college football season, began on August 28, 2008, progressing through the regular season and bowl season, and concluded with the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game in Miami Gardens, Florida on January 8, 2009, where the #2... |
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| 23 | 2011–present | 3 | 5 | 4 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | |||
See also
- Florida GatorsFlorida GatorsThe Florida Gators are the intercollegiate sports teams that represent the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida. The "Lady Gators" is an alternative nickname sometimes used by the Gators women's teams...
- History of the University of FloridaHistory of the University of FloridaThe history of the University of Florida is firmly tied to the history of public education in the state of Florida. The University of Florida, colloquially known as "Florida" or "UF," originated as several distinct institutions that were merged to create a single state-supported university by the...
- List of College Football Hall of Fame inductees (coaches)
- List of Florida Gators football players
- List of University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame members
- University Athletic AssociationUniversity of Florida Athletic AssociationThe University Athletic Association, Inc. is a non-profit corporation that is responsible for maintaining the Florida Gators intercollegiate sports program of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida...
External links
- Florida Coaching Records – Win-loss records of Florida Gators head coaches at College Football Data Warehouse