Joshua Kenneth Heupel is an American college football coach and former player who is the head football coach at the University of Tennessee. Previously he was head coach at the University of Central Florida, where he compiled a 28–8 record.
The North Dakota State Bison football program represents North Dakota State University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision level and competes in the Missouri Valley Football Conference. The Bison play in the 19,000-seat Fargodome located in Fargo. The Bison have won 17 national championships and 37 conference championships. They have won nine NCAA Division I AA FCS National Championships between 2011 and 2021. The Bison hold the record for most overall NCAA national championships and the record for the most consecutive championships with five titles between 2011 and 2015 for Division I FCS.
Darrell E. Mudra Sr., nicknamed "Dr. Victory", was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Adams State College (1959–1962), North Dakota State University (1963–1965), the University of Arizona (1967–1968), Western Illinois University (1969–1973), Florida State University (1974–1975), Eastern Illinois University (1978–1982), and the University of Northern Iowa (1983–1987), compiling a career college football record of 200–81–4. Mudra was also the head coach of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL) for one season in 1966. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2000.
Dal Shealy is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Mars Hill College—now known as Mars Hill University—in 1969, Carson–Newman College—now known as Carson–Newman University—from 1970 to 1973, and at the University of Richmond from 1980 to 1988, compiling a career college football record of 79–74. Shealy also served as an assistant coach at Baylor University, the University of Tennessee, Auburn University, and Iowa State University. He grew up in Batesburg, South Carolina, now Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina and attended Batesburg-Leesville High School and Carson–Newman College—now known as Carson–Newman University. Shealy's son, Vic Shealy, is currently the head football coach at Houston Baptist University.
Lester Cort Belding was an American athlete and coach in football, basketball, and track and field. He was the first football player from the University of Iowa to be named a consensus All-American. He was inducted into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in 1963.
Gregory A. Lansing is a current special assistant to the head coach at Arizona State. An assistant and head coach at the high school and college levels since 1990, he was most recently the head men's basketball coach at Indiana State University from 2010 to 2021, having twice previously been an assistant coach at Indiana State.
Ervin Mondt is a former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa from 1983 to 1988 and South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota from 1990 to 1994, compiling a career college football coaching record of 30–80–1. Mondt also coached high school football over a span of four decades in the states of Colorado and New Mexico. He retired from coaching in 2002.
Bob Nielson is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach at the University of South Dakota, a position he had held since the 2016 season. Nielson was the head football coach at Ripon College (1989–1990), Wartburg College (1991–1995), the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (1996–1998), University of Minnesota–Duluth, and Western Illinois University (2013–2015). His Minnesota–Duluth Bulldogs won the NCAA Division II Football Championship in 2008 and 2010.
Dennis Creehan is an American gridiron football coach. He was most recently the athletic director at Alderson Broaddus University from 2011 to 2019.
The Dakota State Trojans are the athletic teams that represent Dakota State University (DSU), located in Madison, South Dakota. The Trojans compete at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) level as a member of the North Star Athletic Association. The Trojans previously competed in the South Dakota Intercollegiate Conference (SDIC) from 1917–18 to 1999–2000, then in the Dakota Athletic Conference (DAC) from 2000–01 to 2010–11. During the 2025–26 academic year, Dakota State will be joining the Frontier Conference. Dakota State's main rivalry is with the Dakota Wesleyan Tigers.
Christopher Paul Klieman is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach at Kansas State University, a position he has held since the 2019 season. Klieman served as the head football coach at North Dakota State University from 2014 to 2018. He succeeded the retiring Bill Snyder at Kansas State after leading the North Dakota State Bison to four NCAA Division I Football Championship titles in five seasons.
Ervin Ralph Pitts was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as a head coach at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, South Dakota in football and basketball. Pitts then served in a similar capacity at Peru State College in Peru, Nebraska, first as a head football coach and then as head men's basketball coach (1973).
Tom Mueller is a former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Nebraska Omaha from 1990 to 1993, compiling a record of 12–31. A native of Elkader, Iowa, Mueller played college football as a defensive back at Upper Iowa University. He coached high school football in Iowa and was the defensive coordinator at Morningside College from 1981 to 1982, before coming to Nebraska–Omaha as an assistant in 1983.
Matthew John Entz is an American college football coach. He is the linebackers coach and assistant head coach for defense at the University of Southern California. He was the head football coach at North Dakota State University from 2019 to 2023. Entz took over from the departing Chris Klieman after Klieman led the 2018 North Dakota State Bison football team to the program's seventh NCAA Division I Football Championship in eight seasons. Entz was the defensive coordinator for the Bison from 2014 until his promotion following the 2018 season.
Courtney Messingham is an American football coach and former player. Messingham served as the head football coach at Upper Iowa University from 2003 to 2004, compiling a record of 3–17. He played college football at the University of Northern Iowa.
Kalita Elton Leighton was an American attorney, a judge, and college football player and coach.
Robert Riley was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Montana Technological University from 1970 to 1971 and at Peru State College in Peru, Nebraska in 1974. After one year at Peru State, he left college coaching and served as the head coach at Kelly Walsh High School in Casper, Wyoming from 1975 to 1978.
John Wilson Stewart was an American football, basketball, and track coach, college athletics administrator, and educator. He served as the head football coach at the University of South Dakota from 1918 to 1919, and the University of Montana from 1922 to 1923, compiling a career college football coaching record of 10–16. Stewart was the head basketball coach at South Dakota from 1918 to 1922 and Montana from 1922 and 1932, tallying a career college basketball coaching mark of 104–125. He was also the head track coach at Montana from 1923 to 1925 and the school's athletic director from 1924 to 1932.
Stan Rettew is a former American football, baseball, and softball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Mayville State University in Mayville, North Dakota in from 1996 to 2001 and Huron University—in Huron, South Dakota from 2002 to 2004, compiling a career college football record of 18–58. Rettew was also the head baseball coach at Iowa Wesleyan College—now known as Iowa Wesleyan University—in Mount Pleasant, Iowa from 1985 to 1986, tallying a mark of 26–27, and the head softball coach at Mayville State from 1994 to 1998.
The 1990 Peru State Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Peru State College and won the national championship during the 1990 NAIA Division II football season. In their fifth season under head coach Tom Shea, the Bobcats compiled a 12–0–1 record. They participated in the NAIA Division II playoffs, defeating Dickinson State (38–34) in the quarterfinals, Baker (27–3) in the semifinals and Westminster (PA) (17–7) in the NAIA Division II Championship Game. The team was led by quarterback Nate Bradley who passed for a school-record 3,806 yards.
