List of Florida Gators head football coaches

Steve Spurrier is Florida's coaching wins leader with 122 victories from 1990 to 2001.

The Florida Gators football program is a college football team that represents the University of Florida in the sport of American football. The Florida Gators compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Twenty-nine men have served as the Gators' head coach since the university first fielded a team in 1906, including five who served as interim coach for a portion of a season. Of these, Charlie Bachman, Ray Graves, Doug Dickey, and Steve Spurrier have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Florida's head coach has been named as the SEC's coach of the year on eight occasions.

Two Gators coaches have led the team to SEC championships: Steve Spurrier won six conference titles while Urban Meyer won two. They also led the Gators to their three national championships; one under Spurrier (in 1996) and two under Meyer (2006 and 2008). Spurrier is Florida's all-time leader in seasons coached (12), conference wins (87), overall wins (122), and winning percentage for coaches serving for two or more seasons (.817).

Coaches

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards
No. Name Term GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL PT DC
CC NC Notes / Awards
1 Jack Forsythe 1906–1908 22 14 6 2 0.682 0
2 George E. Pyle 1909–1913 36 26 7 3 0.764 3 5 0 0.375 1 0 0 0 0
3 C. J. McCoy 1914–1916 19 9 10 0 0.474 4 9 0 0.308 0 0 0 0 0
4 Alfred L. Buser 1917–1919 15 7 8 0 0.467 3 7 0 0.300 0 0 0 0 0
5 William G. Kline 1920–1922 29 19 8 2 0.690 7 4 2 0.615 0 0 0 0 0
6 James Van Fleet 1923–1924 19 12 3 4 0.737 3 0 3 0.750 0 0 0 0 0
7 Harold Sebring 1925–1927 30 17 11 2 0.600 9 7 1 0.559 0 0 0 0 0
8 Charlie Bachman 1928–1932 48 27 18 3 0.594 19 14 3 0.569 0 0 0 0 0
9 Dennis K. Stanley 1933–1935 29 14 13 2 0.517 5 11 1 0.324 0 0 0 0 0
10 Josh Cody 1936–1939 43 17 24 2 0.419 6 14 2 0.318 0 0 0 0 0
11 Tom Lieb 1940–1942
1944–1945
47 20 26 1 0.436 5 15 1 0.262 0 0 0 0 0
12 Raymond Wolf 1946–1949 39 13 24 2 0.359 2 17 2 0.143 0 0 0 0 0
13 Bob Woodruff 1950–1959 101 53 42 6 0.554 29 32 4 0.477 1 1 0 0 0
14 Ray Graves 1960–1969 105 70 31 4 0.686 38 19 3 0.658 4 1 0 0 0 SEC Coach of the Year (1960)
15 Doug Dickey 1970–1978 103 58 43 2 0.573 28 28 1 0.500 0 4 0 0 0
16 Charley Pell 1979–1984 62 33 26 3 0.556 14 16 1 0.468 2 2 0 0 0 SEC Coach of the Year (1980)
17 Galen Hall 1984–1989 59 40 18 1 0.686 21 12 0 0.636 1 1 0 0 0 SEC Coach of the Year (1984)
18 Gary Darnell 1989 7 3 4 0 0.429 2 2 0 0.500 0 1 0 0 0 interim
19 Steve Spurrier 1990–2001 150 122 27 1 0.817 87 12 0 0.879 6 5 0 7 6 11996 SEC Coach of the Year
(1990, 1995, 1996)
20 Ron Zook 2002–2004 37 23 14 0.622 16 8 0.667 0 2 1 0 0
21 Charlie Strong 2004 1 0 1 .000 0 0 .000 0 1 0 0 0 interim
22 Urban Meyer 2005–2010 80 65 15 0.813 36 13 0.735 5 1 3 2 22006, 2008 National Coach of the Decade (2009)
23 Will Muschamp 2011–2014 49 28 21 0.571 17 15 0.531 1 1 1 0 0 SEC Coach of the Year (2012)
24 D. J. Durkin 2014 1 1 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 interim
25 Jim McElwain 2015–2017 34 22 12 0.647 16 6 0.727 1 1 2 0 0 SEC Coach of the Year (2015)
26 Randy Shannon 2017 4 1 3 0.250 0 2 .000 0 0 0 0 0 interim
27 Dan Mullen 2018–2021 49 34 15 0.694 21 13 0.618 2 1 1 0 0
28 Greg Knox 2021 1 1 0 1.000 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 interim
29 Billy Napier 2022–present 13 6 7 0.462 3 5 .375 0 1 0 0 0


Key

Key to symbols in coaches list
General Overall Conference Postseason
No. Order of coaches GC Games coached CW Conference wins PW Postseason wins
DC Division championships OW Overall wins CL Conference losses PL Postseason losses
CC Conference championships OL Overall losses CT Conference ties PT Postseason ties
NC National championships OT Overall ties C% Conference winning percentage
Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame O% Overall winning percentage

See also


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