List of Alabama Crimson Tide football head coaches
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The Alabama Crimson Tide football
program is a college football
team that represents the University of Alabama
in the West Division of the Southeastern Conference
(SEC). The Crimson Tide competes as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 27 head coaches, and 1 interim head coach, since it began play during the 1892 season
. Since January 2007, Nick Saban
has served as Alabama's head coach.
Adopting the nickname of the Crimson Tide after the 1907 season, the team has played more than 1,100 games over 116 seasons. In that time, 12 coaches have led the Crimson Tide in postseason bowl game
s: Wallace Wade, Frank Thomas, Harold Drew
, Paul "Bear" Bryant
, Ray Perkins, Bill Curry
, Gene Stallings
, Mike DuBose
, Dennis Franchione
, Mike Shula
, Joe Kines
, and Saban. Eight of those coaches also won conference
championships: Wade captured four as a member of the Southern Conference
and Thomas, Drew, Bryant, Curry, Stallings, DuBose, and Saban won a combined 22 as a member of the SEC. During their tenures, Wade, Thomas, Bryant, Stallings, and Saban each won national championships
with the Crimson Tide.
Bryant is the leader in seasons coached and games won, with 232 victories during his 25 years with the program. Bryant also has the highest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with .824. Jennings B. Whitworth
has the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with .067. Mike Price
, who was hired in 2003, was fired prior to coaching a game. Of the 28 different head coaches who have led the Crimson Tide, Wade, Thomas, Bryant, and Stallings have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame
in South Bend
, Indiana
.
Alabama Crimson Tide football
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program is a college football
College football
College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...
team that represents the University of Alabama
University of Alabama
The University of Alabama is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States....
in the West 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). The Crimson Tide competes as part 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) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 27 head coaches, and 1 interim head coach, since it began play during the 1892 season
1892 college football season
The 1892 college football season had a clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Yale as national champions....
. Since January 2007, Nick Saban
Nick Saban
Nicholas Lou "Nick" Saban is the head coach of the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide football team. Saban has previously served as head coach of the National Football League's Miami Dolphins and three other NCAA universities: LSU, Michigan State and Toledo...
has served as Alabama's head coach.
Adopting the nickname of the Crimson Tide after the 1907 season, the team has played more than 1,100 games over 116 seasons. In that time, 12 coaches have led the Crimson Tide in postseason bowl game
Bowl game
In North America, a bowl game is commonly considered to refer to one of a number of post-season college football games. Prior to 2002, bowl game statistics were not included in players' career totals and the games were mostly considered to be exhibition games involving a payout to participating...
s: Wallace Wade, Frank Thomas, Harold Drew
Harold Drew
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, Paul "Bear" Bryant
Bear Bryant
Paul William "Bear" Bryant was an American college football player and coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team. During his 25-year tenure as Alabama's head coach, he amassed six national championships and thirteen conference championships...
, Ray Perkins, Bill Curry
Bill Curry
William Alexander "Bill" Curry is an American football coach and former player. He is the current head coach at Georgia State University, which began competing in college football in 2010...
, Gene Stallings
Gene Stallings
Eugene Clifton Stallings, Jr. is a former American football player and coach. He played college football at Texas A&M University , where he was one of the "Junction Boys", and later served as the head coach at his alma mater from 1965 to 1971. Stallings was also the head coach of the St...
, Mike DuBose
Mike DuBose
Mike DuBose is a former University of Alabama football player and the current defensive line coach for the Memphis Tigers. DuBose came to Memphis from Millsaps College, where he was the Majors' head coach from 2006 to 2009. He resurrected the school's struggling football program by winning...
, Dennis Franchione
Dennis Franchione
Dennis Wayne Franchione , also known as Coach Fran, is an American football coach. He is currently the head football coach at Texas State University, a position he held from 1990 to 1991, when the school was known as Southwest Texas State University, and resumed in 2011...
, Mike Shula
Mike Shula
Mike Shula is an American football quarterback coach for the Carolina Panthers, an NFL team. Between 2003 and 2006, he was the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide football program.- Early life :...
, Joe Kines
Joe Kines
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, and Saban. Eight of those coaches also won conference
Athletic conference
An athletic conference is a collection of sports teams, playing competitively against each other at the professional, collegiate, or high school level. In many cases conferences are subdivided into smaller and smaller divisions, with the best teams competing at successively higher levels...
championships: Wade captured four as a member of the Southern Conference
Southern Conference
The Southern Conference is a Division I college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Southern Conference football teams compete in the Football Championship Subdivision . Member institutions are located in the states of Alabama, Georgia, North...
and Thomas, Drew, Bryant, Curry, Stallings, DuBose, and Saban won a combined 22 as a member of the SEC. During their tenures, Wade, Thomas, Bryant, Stallings, and Saban each won 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 Crimson Tide.
Bryant is the leader in seasons coached and games won, with 232 victories during his 25 years with the program. Bryant also has the highest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with .824. Jennings B. Whitworth
Jennings B. Whitworth
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has the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with .067. Mike Price
Mike Price
Mike Price is an American football coach. He is currently the head coach at the University of Texas at El Paso , a position he has held since 2004...
, who was hired in 2003, was fired prior to coaching a game. Of the 28 different head coaches who have led the Crimson Tide, Wade, Thomas, Bryant, and Stallings have been inducted into 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...
in South Bend
South Bend, Indiana
The city of South Bend is the county seat of St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States, on the St. Joseph River near its southernmost bend, from which it derives its name. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a total of 101,168 residents; its Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 316,663...
, Indiana
Indiana
Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
.
Coaches
| # | Name | Season(s) |
GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | PT | DCs |
CCs | NCs | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1892 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | ||
| 2 | 1892–1895, 1902 | 20 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 3 | 1896 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 4 | 1897 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — | ||
| 5 | 1899 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 6 | 1900 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 7 | 1901 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 8 | 1903–1904 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 9 | 1905 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0— | |||
| 10 | 1906–1909 | 30 | 21 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 5 | 4 | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 11 | 1910 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 12 | 1911–1914 | 36 | 21 | 12 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 3 | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 13 | 1915–1917 | 25 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 14 | 1919–1922 | 41 | 29 | 9 | 3 | 23 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 15 | 1923–1930 | 78 | 61 | 13 | 4 | 45 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 3 – 1925 1925 college football season The 1925 college football season ended with the University of Alabama's recognition as a football powerhouse. The Rose Bowl was closer to a national championship than had been seen previously, providing an intersectional matchup between two unbeaten teams, the Washington Huskies and the Alabama... , 1926 1926 college football season The 1926 college football season was the first to attempt recognition of a national champion. Stanford University, coached by Glenn "Pop" Warner, was the #1 team in the nation under the Dickinson System, and awarded the Rissman Trophy. Unbeaten Stanford faced unbeaten Alabama in the Rose Bowl... , 1930 1930 college football season The 1930 college football season saw Notre Dame repeat as national champion under the Dickinson system, and a post-season Rose Bowl matchup between two unbeaten teams, Washington State and Alabama, ranked #2 and #3, respectively... |
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| 16 | 1931–1946 | 146 | 115 | 24 | 7 | 71 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | — | 4 | 2 – 1934 1934 college football season The 1934 college football season saw the addition of not one, but two New Year's Day football games to rival the venerable Rose Bowl. On February 15, Warren V. Miller and Joseph M. Cousins had organized the New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Association and by October, the group had enough funds to... , 1941 1941 college football season The 1941 college football regular season ended with the Golden Gophers of the University of Minnesota repeating as the AP Poll national champion. This was Minnesota's fifth national championship in eight years... |
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| 17 | 1947–1954 | 89 | 54 | 28 | 7 | 33 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 18 | 1955–1957 | 30 | 4 | 24 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 19 | 1958–1982 | 287 | 232 | 46 | 9 | 146 | 22 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 2 | — | 13 | 6 – 1961 1961 college football season During the 20th century, the NCAA had no playoff for the college football teams that would later be described as "Division I-A". The NCAA did recognize a national champion based upon the final results of "wire service" polls. The extent of that recognition came in the form of acknowledgment in... , 1964, 1965 1965 college football season During the 20th Century, the NCAA had no playoff for the college football teams that would later be described as "Division I-A". The NCAA did recognize a national champion based upon the final results of "wire service" polls. The "writers' poll" by Associated Press was the most popular,... , 1973 1973 college football season The 1973 college football season was the first for the NCAA's current three-division structure. Effective with the 1973–74 academic year, schools formerly in the NCAA "University Division" were classified as Division I... , 1978 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season The 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first season of Division I-A football; Division I-A was created in 1978 from the splitting of Division I for football only. The season came down to a rare #1 vs. #2 post-season meeting as #1 Penn State and #2 Alabama met in the New Year's Day Sugar... , 1979 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season The 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season saw the Alabama Crimson Tide bring home a national title with a perfect 12-0 season. The title was Alabama's 11th claimed, though the number is disputed. It was their 6th Associated Press awarded title.... |
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| 20 | 1983–1986 | 48 | 32 | 15 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 21 | 1987–1989 | 36 | 26 | 10 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | |
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1990–1996 | 87 | 62 | 25 | 0 | 38 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 – 1992 1992 NCAA Division I-A football season The 1992 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first year of the Bowl Coalition, and ended with Alabama's first national championship in thirteen years—their first since the departure of Bear Bryant... |
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| 23 | 1997–2000 | 47 | 24 | 23 | — | 16 | 16 | — | 0 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
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| 24 | 2001–2002 | 25 | 17 | 8 | — | 10 | 6 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 25 | |
2003 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 26 | |
2003–2006 | 49 | 10 | 23 | — | 5 | 19 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | ||
| Int | |
2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | |
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2007–present | 54 | 38 | 11 | — | 20 | 7 | — | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | 1 – 2009 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season The 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, or the college football season, began on September 2, 2009, progressed through the regular season and bowl season, and concluded with the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game in Pasadena, California on January 7, 2010, featuring the... |