List of Arkansas Razorbacks head football coaches
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The Arkansas Razorbacks football
program is a college football
team that represents the U.S. University of Arkansas
in the West Division of the Southeastern Conference
(SEC). The Razorbacks compete as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 29 head coaches, and 2 interim head coaches, since it began play during the 1894 season
, and Bobby Petrino
has served as Arkansas' head coach since his hiring in December 2007.
The team has played more than 1,160 games over 117 seasons. In that time, eleven coaches have led the Razorbacks in postseason bowl game
s: Fred Thomsen
, John Barnhill, Bowden Wyatt
, Frank Broyles
, Lou Holtz
, Ken Hatfield
, Jack Crowe
, Danny Ford
, Houston Nutt
, Reggie Herring
and Bobby Petrino
. Five coaches won conference
championships: Thomsen, Wyatt, Broyles, Holtz and Hatfield won a combined ten as a member of the Southwest Conference. Frank Broyles won the Razorbacks' lone national championship
in 1964.
Broyles is the leader in seasons coached and games won, with 144 victories during his 19 years with the program. Hatfield has the highest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with .760. John Tomlin
has the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with .222. Of the 31 different head coaches who have led the Razorbacks, Hugo Bezdek
, Francis Schmidt
, Wyatt, Broyles, and Holtz have been inducted as head coaches into the College Football Hall of Fame
in South Bend
, Indiana
.
Arkansas Razorbacks football
The Arkansas Razorbacks football program is a college football team that represents the University of Arkansas. The team is a member of the Southeastern Conference's Western Division, which is in Division I's Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association...
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 U.S. University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas
The University of Arkansas is a public, co-educational, land-grant, space-grant, research university. It is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with very high research activity. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System and is located in...
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 Razorbacks compete 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 29 head coaches, and 2 interim head coaches, since it began play during the 1894 season
1894 college football season
The 1894 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Penn, Princeton, and Yale as national champions....
, and Bobby Petrino
Bobby Petrino
Bobby Petrino is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at the University of Arkansas, a position he has held since the 2008 season...
has served as Arkansas' head coach since his hiring in December 2007.
The team has played more than 1,160 games over 117 seasons. In that time, eleven coaches have led the Razorbacks 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: Fred Thomsen
Fred Thomsen
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, John Barnhill, Bowden Wyatt
Bowden Wyatt
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, Frank Broyles
Frank Broyles
John Franklin Broyles is a former American football player and coach, athletics administrator, and broadcaster. He served as the head football coach the University of Missouri in 1957 and at the University of Arkansas from 1958 to 1976...
, Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz
Louis Leo "Lou" Holtz is a retired American football coach, and active sportscaster, author, and motivational speaker in the United States...
, Ken Hatfield
Ken Hatfield
Ken Hatfield is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the United States Air Force Academy , the University of Arkansas , Clemson University , and Rice University , compiling a career college football record of 168–140–4.-Playing...
, Jack Crowe
Jack Crowe
Jack Crowe is an American football coach. He is currently the head coach at Jacksonville State University in Alabama, a position he has held since 2000. Crowe served as the head football coach at the University of Arkansas from 1990 until he resigned one game into the 1992 season after an upset...
, Danny Ford
Danny Ford
Danny Lee Ford is a former American football player and coach. He played college football at the University of Alabama from 1967 to 1969. He served as the head football coach at Clemson University in South Carolina from 1978 to 1989 and at the University of Arkansas from 1993 to 1997, compiling...
, Houston Nutt
Houston Nutt
Houston Dale Nutt, Jr. is an American football coach and former player. Most recently he was the head football coach at the University of Mississippi from 2008 to 2011. Previously, he served as the head coach at Murray State University , Boise State University , and the University of Arkansas...
, Reggie Herring
Reggie Herring
-External links:*...
and Bobby Petrino
Bobby Petrino
Bobby Petrino is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at the University of Arkansas, a position he has held since the 2008 season...
. Five coaches 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: Thomsen, Wyatt, Broyles, Holtz and Hatfield won a combined ten as a member of the Southwest Conference. Frank Broyles won the Razorbacks' lone national championship
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...
in 1964.
Broyles is the leader in seasons coached and games won, with 144 victories during his 19 years with the program. Hatfield has the highest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with .760. John Tomlin
John Tomlin (American football)
-External links:...
has the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with .222. Of the 31 different head coaches who have led the Razorbacks, Hugo Bezdek
Hugo Bezdek
Hugo Francis Bezdek was a Czech-American sports figure who played American football and was a coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He was the head football coach at the University of Oregon , the University of Arkansas , Penn State University , and Delaware Valley College...
, Francis Schmidt
Francis Schmidt
Francis Albert Schmidt was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at the University of Tulsa , the University of Arkansas , Texas Christian University , Ohio State University , and the University of Idaho , compiling a...
, Wyatt, Broyles, and Holtz have been inducted as head coaches 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 | 1894–1896 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | ||
| 2 | 1897–1898 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | ||
| 3 | 1899–1900 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | ||
| 4 | 1901–1902 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | ||
| 5 | 1903 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | ||
| 6 | 1904–1905 | 17 | 6 | 11 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | ||
| 7 | 1906–1907 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | ||
| 8 | 1908–1912 | 43 | 29 | 13 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | ||
| 9 | 1913–1914 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | ||
| 10 | 1915–1916 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 11 | 1917–1918 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 12 | 1919 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 13 | 1920–1921 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 14 | 1922–1928 | 65 | 41 | 21 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 15 | 1929–1941 | 127 | 56 | 61 | 10 | 26 | 42 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | — | |||
| 16 | 1942 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 17 | 1943 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 18 | 1944–1945 | 21 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 19 | 1946–1949 | 42 | 22 | 17 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — | |||
| 20 | 1950–1952 | 30 | 9 | 21 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 21 | 1953–1954 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | — | |||
| 22 | 1955–1957 | 30 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 23 | 1958–1976 | 207 | 144 | 58 | 5 | 91 | 36 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 0 | — | 7 | 1 – 1964 | AFCA Coach of the Year AFCA Coach of the Year The AFCA Coach of the Year award is given annually to a college football coach by the American Football Coaches Association . The award has had several different sponors over the years, including Eastman Kodak Corporation, and thus also been named the Kodak Coach of the Year Award.-Football Bowl... (1964) |
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| 24 | 1977–1983 | 83 | 60 | 21 | 2 | 37 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | College Football Coach of the Year (1977) FWAA Coach of the Year Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year The Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year award is given annually to a college football coach by the Football Writers Association of America. The award honors Eddie Robinson, former coach at Grambling State who holds the second best record for most Division I wins with 408 behind only Joe... (1977) Sporting News College Football Coach of the Year Sporting News College Football Coach of the Year The Sporting News College Football Coach of the Year Award is an award that is given annually to NCAA college football's national coach of the year. The Sporting News established the award beginning in 1963... (1977) Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award (1977) |
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| 25 | 1984–1989 | 73 | 55 | 17 | 1 | 36 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | — | |||
| 26 | |
1990–1992 | 24 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | ||
| Int | |
1992 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | ||
| 27 | 1993–1997 | 57 | 26 | 30 | 1 | 16 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| 28 | |
1998–2007 | 123 | 75 | 48 | — | 42 | 38 | — | 2 | 5 | — | 3 | 0 | 0 | AP SEC Coach of the Year (2001, 2006) SEC Coach of the Year (2001, 2006) |
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| Int | |
2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | ||
| 29 | 2008–present | 38 | 23 | 15 | — | 11 | 13 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |