List of Kansas Jayhawks head football coaches

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The Kansas Jayhawks football program is a college football team that represents the University of Kansas in the Big 12 Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The Jayhawks head coach is Lance Leipold. The team has had 40 head coaches since it started playing organized football in 1890 with the nickname Jayhawks. [1] The team played its first season without an official head coach, however, Will Coleman, starting center on the inaugural team, served as the team's head coach. Edwin Mortimer Hopkins was the Jayhawks first official head coach. He served as the head coach only for the 1891 team finishing the season 7–0–1. Kansas joined the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1907. After several changes, the conference eventually became the Big Eight Conference. The Jayhawks became a charter member of the Big 12 in 1996 when the Big Eight disbanded. [2] Seven coaches have led Kansas to postseason bowl games: George Sauer, Jack Mitchell, Pepper Rodgers, Don Fambrough, Bud Moore, Glen Mason and Mark Mangino. Four coaches have won conference championships with the Jayhawks: A. R. Kennedy, Bill Hargiss, Sauer and Rodgers.

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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 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 leads with a .833 winning percentage, barely edging out Kennedy's winning percentage of .831. David Beaty is, in terms of winning percentage, the worst coach the Jayhawks have had (.125). Of the 39 Kansas coaches, Yost is the only one that has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach. Mangino won several coach of the year accolades after the 2007 season, the only Jayhawks coach to do so.

Key

Key to symbols in coaches list
GeneralOverallConferencePostseason [A 1]
No.Order of coaches [A 2] GCGames coachedCWConference winsPWPostseason wins
DCDivision championshipsOWOverall winsCLConference lossesPLPostseason losses
CCConference championshipsOLOverall lossesCTConference tiesPTPostseason ties
NCNational championshipsOTOverall ties [A 3] C%Conference winning percentage
†Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame O%Overall winning percentage [A 4]

Coaches

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards [A 5]
#NameTermGCWLT %CWCLCTC%BWBLCCAwards and other notes
1 Edwin Mortimer Hopkins 18918701.938
2 A. W. Shepard 1892–18931596.600
3 Hector Cowan [6] †1894–1896231571.674
4 Wylie G. Woodruff 1897–189818153.833
5 Fielding H. Yost [7] †1899101001.000
6 Larry Boynton 19009252.333
7 John H. Outland [8] †190110352.400
8 Arthur Hale Curtis 19021064.600
9 Harrison Weeks 1903963.667
10 A. R. Kennedy 1904–1910655294.831931.7311
11 Ralph W. Sherwin 19118422.625111.500
12 Arthur Mosse 1912–19131697.56344.500
13 H. M. Wheaton 19148521.68822.500
14 Herman Olcott 1915–1917241671.688741.625
15 Jay Bond 1918422.500
16 Leon McCarty 19198323.563111.500
17 Phog Allen 19208521.68832.600
18 Potsy Clark 1921–19253916176.48711156.438
19 Frank Cappon 1926–1927165101.344481.346
20 Bill Hargiss 1928–19324222182.5488111.4251
21 Adrian Lindsey [A 6] 1932–19386123308.44311185.397
22 Gwinn Henry 1939–194236927.250416.200
23 Henry Shenk 1943–19453011163.4174101.300
24 George Sauer 1946–1947211533.786811.85012
25 Jules V. Sikes 1948–1953603525.5831818.500
26 Chuck Mather 1954–19574011263.3137161.313
27 Jack Mitchell 1958–19669142445.48929284.5081
28 Pepper Rodgers 1967–1970422022.4761315.46411
29 Don Fambrough 1971–1974, 1979–19829037485.43920333.3841
30 Bud Moore 1975–19784517211.4498191.3041
31 Mike Gottfried 1983–19853415181.456813.381
32 Bob Valesente 1986–1987224171.205131.036
33 Glen Mason 1988–199610247541.46625381.3982
34 Terry Allen 1997–2001532033.3771030.250
Int Tom Hayes [A 7] 2001312.3332.000
35 Mark Mangino 2002–2009985048.5102341.35931

Big 12 Coach of the Year (2007) [16]
Walter Camp Coach of the Year (2007) [17]
AP National Coach of the Year (2007) [18]
Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (2007) [19]
The Home Depot Coach of the Year Award (2007) [20]
Sporting News College Football Coach of the Year (2007) [21]
Woody Hayes Trophy (2007) [22]
George Munger Award (2007) [23]
AFCA Coach of the Year (2007) [24]
Paul "Bear" Bryant Award (2007) [22]

Resigned following the launch of an investigation of his coaching practices. [25]

36 Turner Gill 2010–201124519.208116.05900—
37 Charlie Weis 2012–201427522.185118.05300Fired four games into the 2014 season
Int Clint Bowen 2014817.12517.12500Interim Head Coach after Charlie Weis was fired
38 David Beaty 2015–201848642.125234.05600Fired after the end of the 2018 season
39 Les Miles 2019–202021318.150116.06300Mutually agreed to part with Kansas after allegations of inappropriate conduct with female students while at LSU.
40 Lance Leipold 2021–present381721.447918.33311

Notes

  1. ↑ 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. [3]
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since. [4]
  4. ↑ When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss. [5]
  5. ↑ Statistics correct as of the end of the 2023 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
  6. ↑ Adrian Lindsey took over for Bill Hargiss midway through the 1932 season.
  7. ↑ Tom Hayes was named the interim head coach after Terry Allen was fired in November 2001. [15]

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