List of Cincinnati Bearcats head football coaches

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The Cincinnati Bearcats football team represents the University of Cincinnati in the Big 12 Conference, competing as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The program has had 39 head coaches and three interim coaches during its existence, as well as one stint with no coach and two periods with the program on hiatus. The Bearcats have been participating in college football since the 1885 season and were one of the first schools currently in the FBS to sponsor a football program. [1] Scott Satterfield is the current head coach; [2] he replaced Luke Fickell (and Kerry Coombs - 1 game as interim), after Fickell took the head coaching job at Wisconsin after the 2022 season. [3]

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The program's current nickname, "Bearcats", was first used in 1914 and was formally adopted in 1919. Prior to then, common terms like "Varsity" or "Red and Black" (the team's colors) had been used to refer to the football team. [4] [5] The Bearcats have played in more than 1200 games during the program's 129 seasons (through the 2017 regular season). In that time, nine coaches have led the Bearcats in a post-season bowl game, eight have won a conference championship, and four have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. [6] [7]

Rick Minter currently holds several records among Cincinnati coaches, including most games coached (117), seasons coached (10), games won (53), games lost (63), conference wins (23), and conference losses (30). Minter also holds, along with Tuberville and Brian Kelly, the record for most bowl games coached (3). [A 1] [A 2] Sid Gillman guided the Bearcats to three Mid-American Conference (MAC) championships, the most of any Cincinnati coach in any conference. Gillman also has the best conference win percentage of any coach (.929); Tom Fennell's .864 is the best regular season percentage, while Kelly's .850 leads among multi-season coaches. Only one interim coach, Steve Stripling, has won a game in that position. [6] [7]

Key

Key to symbols in coaches list
GeneralOverallConferencePostseason [A 3]
No.Order of coaches [A 4] GCGames coachedCWConference winsPWPostseason wins
DCDivision championshipsOWOverall winsCLConference lossesPLPostseason losses
CCConference championshipsOLOverall lossesCTConference tiesPTPostseason ties
NCNational championshipsOTOverall ties [A 5] C%Conference winning percentage
†Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame O%Overall winning percentage [A 6]

Coaches

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records [A 7] , postseason records, championships and selected awards [A 8]
No.NameSeason(s)GCOWOLOTO%CWCLCTC%PWPLPTDCCCNCAwards
1885–9329131240.5170
W. Durant Berry 1894–95126600.5000
William A. Reynolds 189684310.5630
Tom Fennell 1897119110.8640
Frank Cavanaugh † [13] 189896120.7780
Daniel A. Reed 1899–1900168710.5310
Henry S. Pratt 190161410.2500
Anthony Chez 1902–031751020.3530
Amos Foster 1904–051612400.7500
William Foley 190690720.1110
1907
Ralph Inott 190861410.2500
Robert Burch 1909–112616820.6544210.64300
Lowell Dana 1912–13178720.5294520.45500
George Little † [16] 1914–151810800.5567500.58300
Ion Cortright 191690810.0560610.07100000
Frank Marty 19176060.000040.00000000
Boyd Chambers [A 10] 1918–2130121530.4684930.34400000
George McLaren † [18] 1922–2645162630.38981520.36000000
George Babcock 1927–3036122130.37521520.15800000
Dana M. King 1931–3436251010.7089410.67900020
Russ Cohen [A 11] 1935–372281130.4322200.50000000
Wade Woodworth [A 11] 19376060.0000000
Joseph A. Meyer 1938–4246271630.6200000
1943–44
Ray Nolting 1945–4839231510.6036200.75010010
Sid Gillman † [21] 1949–5464501310.78913100.92911030
George Blackburn 1955–6058252760.4833930.30000000
Charles Studley 1961–6660273300.45013900.59100020
Homer Rice 1967–681981010.4475400.55600000
Ray Callahan 1969–7243202300.4652300.40000000
Tony Mason 1973–7644261800.5910000
Ralph Staub 1977–8044142820.3410000
Mike Gottfried 1981–8222121000.5450000
Watson Brown 1983114610.4090000
Dave Currey 1984–8855193600.3450000
Timothy Murphy 1989–9355173710.3180000
Rick Minter 1994–2003117536310.457233000.43412010
Mark Dantonio [A 1] 2004–063618170.51411110.5001000
Brian Kelly [A 1] [A 2] 2006–09403460.8501740.8102120 Home Depot Coach of the Year Award (2009) [26]
Big East Coach of the Year (2007, 2008, 2009) [27]
Jeff Quinn [A 2] 2009101.0000100
Butch Jones [A 13] 2010–123723140.6221470.6671020 Big East Coach of the Year (2011) [27]
Steve Stripling [A 13] 20121101.0001000
Tommy Tuberville 2013–165129220.56918140.56303010
Luke Fickell 2017–20227557180.76035110.76122120 Home Depot Coach of the Year Award (2021) [30]
Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award (2021) [31]
Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (2021) [32]
Sporting News Coach of the Year (2021) [33]
AAC Coach of the Year (2018, 2020–2021)
Kerry Coombs 2022100–0000
Scott Satterfield 2023–Present12390.250180.1110000

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Mark Dantonio coached the Bearcats for the 2006 regular season before leaving to take the head coach position at Michigan State. Brian Kelly was hired to replace Dantonio and lead Cincinnati in the 2007 International Bowl, to finish out the season. [22] [23]
  2. 1 2 3 Brian Kelly coached Cincinnati through the 2009 regular season and left to take over Notre Dame before the 2010 Sugar Bowl. Assistant coach Jeff Quinn was promoted to interim head coach for the bowl game. [24] [25]
  3. ↑ Although the first Rose Bowl Game was played in 1902, it has been continuously played since the 1916 game, and is recognized as the oldest bowl game by the NCAA. "—" indicates any season prior to 1916 when postseason games were not played. [8]
  4. ↑ A running total of the number of head coaches, with coaches who served separate tenures being counted only once. Interim head coaches are represented with "Int" and are not counted in the running total. "—" indicates the team played but either without a coach or no coach is on record. "X" indicates an interim year without play.
  5. ↑ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since. [9]
  6. ↑ When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss. [10]
  7. ↑ From 1885 through 1909, Cincinnati competed as an independent. Between 1910 and 1924, the program was a member of the Ohio Athletic Conference. It then competed in the Buckeye Conference from 1925 through 1935, which was followed by another period of independence. The Bearcats joined the Mid-American Conference in 1946, which they left for the Missouri Valley Conference in 1957. Between 1970 and 1995, Cincinnati again competed as an independent. The Bearcats have competed within conferences since 1996; the first was Conference USA, which they left for the Big East Conference, and then transitioned into the Big East's successor, the American Athletic Conference, starting in 2013. [11] The American Athletic Conference began divisional play in 2015 following the addition of the Navy Midshipmen, which brought the total number of teams in the conference to twelve. [12] Cincinnati had not been a member of a conference division at any time prior to this.
  8. ↑ Statistics correct as of the end of the 2023 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
  9. ↑ Cincinnati athletic records state that no football games were played in 1907. [14] However, the College Football Data Warehouse records the Bearcats as having played two games that year, both of which were loses, under the leadership of a "Coach Clancey". [15]
  10. ↑ The College Football Data Warehouse includes an additional game and win for Chambers in the 1921 season, which is not recorded in Cincinnati's records. [17]
  11. 1 2 Russ Cohen voluntarily resigned on October 14, 1937, after losing the first four games of the 1937 season. Offensive line coach Wade Woodworth was hired to succeed him, at Cohen's suggestion. [19]
  12. ↑ Cincinnati did not field a team during the 1943 or 1944 seasons due to World War II. [20]
  13. 1 2 Butch Jones coached the Bearcats through the 2012 regular season before leaving to take the head coach position at Tennessee. Assistant coach Steve Stripling was promoted to interim head coach for the 2012 Belk Bowl. [28] [29]

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