List of college football coaches with 150 NCAA Division I FCS wins

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This is a list of college football coaches with 150 career wins in NCAA Division I FCS , the lower of two levels of NCAA Division I football.

Contents

Historical overview

FCS, short for "Football Championship Subdivision", was created in 1978 when the NCAA split Division I football into two groups. The strongest programs and conferences were placed in Division I-A, known since 2006 as the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Other Division I football programs were placed in Division I-AA, which was renamed as FCS in 2006.

The official NCAA record book contains a list of the 50 winningest FCS coaches. However, it is not truly indicative of the most successful coaches at that level because of the criteria used for its compilation. Inclusion on the list requires a minimum of 10 years as a head coach at the FCS level, but each coach's win total includes all wins at four-year institutions, regardless of whether these schools were FCS at that time. [1]

As of the 2023 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game that ended the 2022 season, a total of 14 head football coaches have won 150 or more games while serving in that role at the FCS level.

Key

*Active at the FCS level in the 2023 season.
†Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach.
††Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player.
†††Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach.

Coaches with 150 career FCS wins

Updated as of Week 2 of the 2023 season.
RankNameSeasons [lower-alpha 1] WinsLossesTiesPct.Teams [lower-alpha 2]
1 Jimmye Laycock 372421792.574 William & Mary (1982–2018) [lower-alpha 3] [3]
2 Roy Kidd †25225782.741 Eastern Kentucky (1978–2002) [lower-alpha 4] [5]
3 Andy Talley †302171361.614 Villanova (1987–2016) [lower-alpha 5] [7]
4 Jerry Moore †24215870.712 Appalachian State (1989–2012) [8] [9]
5 Tim Murphy *32207950.685 Maine (1987–1988), [10] Harvard (1994–present) [lower-alpha 6] [11] [12]
6 Al Bagnoli 301831150.614 Penn (1992–2014), [13] Columbia (2015–2022) [lower-alpha 6] [14] [15]
7 Tubby Raymond †22181811.690 Delaware (1980–2001) [lower-alpha 7] [17]
8 Kevin Callahan *301771310.575 Monmouth (1994–present) [lower-alpha 8] [19]
9 Mark Farley *231741000.635 Northern Iowa (2001–present) [20]
10 K. C. Keeler 20171790.684 Delaware (2002–2012), Sam Houston (2014–2022) [lower-alpha 9] [21]
11 Rob Ash 23171861.665 Drake (1993–2006), [lower-alpha 10] Montana State (2007–2015) [23] [24]
12 Mike Ayers 261711301.568 East Tennessee State (1985–1987), [25] Wofford (1995–2017) [lower-alpha 11] [27]
13 John Stiegelmeier 19157790.665 South Dakota State (2004–2022) [lower-alpha 12] [28]
14 Sean McDonnell 221571040.602 New Hampshire (1999–2021) [lower-alpha 13] [29]


See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Number of seasons served as head coach at the FCS level.
  2. ↑ Teams coached at the FCS level. Seasons listed are restricted to those in which each individual team competed as an FCS member.
  3. ↑ When Laycock became head coach at William & Mary in 1980, W&M was classified as a Division I-A program. W&M was downgraded to Division I-AA after the 1981 season. [2]
  4. ↑ When Kidd became head coach at Eastern Kentucky in 1964, EKU (then Eastern Kentucky State College) was a member of the NCAA College Division. When the NCAA adopted its current three-division system in 1973, EKU was classified as Division II; it became a charter member of Division I-AA in 1978. [4]
  5. ↑ When Talley became head coach at Villanova in 1985, it was classified as an NCAA Division III program. Villanova did not upgrade to Division I-AA until 1987. [6]
  6. 1 2 Neither Bagnoli nor Murphy coached in 2020–21 because all Ivy League schools canceled their 2020–21 football seasons due to COVID-19 concerns.
  7. ↑ When Raymond became head coach at Delaware in 1966, it was a member of the NCAA College Division. When the NCAA adopted its current three-division system in 1973, Delaware was classified as Division II. It did not immediately become a I-AA member upon the Division I split; that would not occur until 1980. [16]
  8. ↑ Monmouth's first football season of 1993, coached by Callahan, was played as an unclassified NCAA program. Monmouth officially joined Division I-AA in 1994. [18]
  9. ↑ Keeler remains head coach at Sam Houston in 2023, but the program started a transition to NCAA Division I FBS in 2022 and has officially been classified as FBS since 2023.
  10. ↑ When Ash became head coach at Drake in 1989, it was a Division I member, but played Division III football. Starting with the 1993 season, the NCAA required that the football programs of all Division I members compete in Division I. At that time, Drake football became a I-AA member. [22]
  11. ↑ When Ayers became head coach at Wofford in 1988, it was classified as an NCAA Division II program. Wofford did not upgrade to Division I-AA until 1995. [26]
  12. ↑ When Stiegelmeier became head coach at South Dakota State in 1997, it was classified as a NCAA Division II program. SDSU upgraded to I-AA/FCS in 2004.
  13. ↑ While McDonnell held the title of head coach for 23 seasons, he only coached in 22 seasons. He took a medical leave in 2019, with Ricky Santos (later his permanent successor) serving as interim head coach during that time.

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