List of Kansas Jayhawks head football coaches
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Kansas Jayhawks football
The Kansas Jayhawks football program is the intercollegiate football program of the University of Kansas Jayhawks. The program is classified in the NCAA's Division I, and the team competes in the Big 12 Conference....
program is a college football
College football
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team that represents the University of Kansas
University of Kansas
The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The...
in the North Division of the Big 12 Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association
National Collegiate Athletic Association
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. The team has had 36 head coaches and one interim head coach since it started playing organized football in 1890 with the nickname Jayhawks. They played their first season without a head coach. Kansas joined the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1907. After several changes, the conference eventually became the Big Eight Conference
Big Eight Conference football
The Big Eight Conference is a defunct college athletic conference that was formerly affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I-A...
. The Jayhawks became a charter member of the Big 12 in 1996 when the Big Eight disbanded. The Jayhawks have played in 1,179 games during their 120 seasons. In those seasons, seven coaches have led Kansas to postseason bowl game
Bowl game
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s: George Sauer
George Sauer
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, Jack Mitchell
Jack Mitchell (coach)
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, Pepper Rodgers
Pepper Rodgers
Franklin C. "Pepper" Rodgers is a former American football player and coach in the United States. He served as the head coach at the University of Kansas , University of California, Los Angeles , and the Georgia Institute of Technology , compiling a career college football record of...
, Don Fambrough
Don Fambrough
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, Bud Moore, Glen Mason
Glen Mason
Glen O. Mason is an American football coach. Mason previously served as the head football coach at Kent State University, the University of Kansas, and the University of Minnesota, compiling a career college football record of 123–121–1.-Playing career:Mason played college football at...
and Mark Mangino
Mark Mangino
Mark Thomas Mangino is an American football coach. He was most recently the head coach of the Kansas Jayhawks college football team from 2002 to 2009. In 2007, Mangino received several National Coach of the Year honors after leading the Jayhawks to their first 12-win season in school history...
. Four coaches have won conference
Athletic conference
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championships with the Jayhawks: A. R. Kennedy
A. R. Kennedy
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, Bill Hargiss
Homer Woodson Hargiss
Homer Woodson "Bill" Hargiss was an American football and basketball player, and track and field athlete, and coach in Kansas and Oregon...
, Sauer and Rodgers.
Mason is the all-time leader in games coached (102) and is tied with Mitchell for most years coached with nine. Kennedy is the all-time leader in total wins with 52. Fielding H. Yost has the highest 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...
of any Jayhawk coach with a 10–0 record (1.000) his only year. Of coaches who served more than one season, Wylie G. Woodruff
Wylie G. Woodruff
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leads with a .833 winning percentage. Bob Valesente
Bob Valesente
Bob Valesente is a former American football player and coach. He played college football at Ithaca College and spent more than 35 years as a football coach...
is, in terms of winning percentage, the worst coach the Jayhawks have had (.205). Of the 36 Kansas coaches, Yost is the only one that has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame
College Football Hall of Fame
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. Mangino won several coach of the year accolades after the 2007 season, the only Jayhawks coach to do so. The current coach is Turner Gill, who was hired in December 2009.
Key
| # | A running total of the number of coaches |
| CCs | Conference 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 |
Coaches
- Statistics correct as of the end of the 2009–10 college football season2009 NCAA Division I FBS football seasonThe 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...
| # | Name | Term | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | CCs | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |||
| 2 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |||
| 3 | † | 23 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | ||
| 4 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |||
| 5 | † | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | ||
| 6 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |||
| 7 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |||
| 8 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |||
| 9 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |||
| 10 | 65 | 52 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0— | 0— | 1 | 0— | ||||
| 11 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 12 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 13 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 14 | 24 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 15 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |||
| 16 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 17 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 18 | 39 | 16 | 17 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 19 | 16 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 20 | 42 | 22 | 18 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 0— | 0— | 1 | 0— | ||||
| 21 | 61 | 23 | 30 | 8 | 11 | 18 | 5 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 22 | 36 | 9 | 27 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 23 | 30 | 11 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 24 | 21 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0— | ||||
| 25 | 60 | 35 | 25 | 0 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 26 | 40 | 11 | 26 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 1 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 27 | 91 | 44 | 42 | 5 | 29 | 28 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 28 | 42 | 20 | 22 | 0 | 13 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0— | ||||
| 29 | 90 | 37 | 48 | 5 | 20 | 33 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 30 | 45 | 17 | 21 | 1 | 8 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 31 | 34 | 15 | 18 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 32 | 22 | 4 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 33 | 102 | 47 | 54 | 1 | 25 | 38 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 34 | 53 | 20 | 33 | 0 | 10 | 30 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0— | ||||
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0— | |||||
| 35 | 98 | 50 | 48 | 0 | 23 | 41 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | (2007) (2007) (2007) (2007) (2007) (2007) (2007) (2007) (2007) (2007) |