List of Fresno State Bulldogs head football coaches
The Fresno State Bulldogs college football team represent California State University, Fresno in the Mountain West Conference. The Bulldogs competed in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) College Division in the years 1921–1968. In 1969, the team moved to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I.
The program has had 20 different head coaches in its 102 seasons of existence (through 2023), including four who had multiple tenures as head coach.
Coaches
[edit]| No. | Coach | Tenure | Seasons | Win | Loss | Tie | Pct. | Bowls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arthur W. Jones | 1921–1928 | 8 | 36 | 26 | 7 | .572 | 0 |
| 2 | Stanley Borleske | 1929–1932 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 2 | .486 | 0 |
| 3 | Leo Harris | 1933–1935 | 3 | 18 | 9 | 1 | .661 | 0 |
| 4 | James Bradshaw | 1936–1942 | 8 | 59 | 18 | 5 | .750 | 1 |
| 5 | Earl Wight | 1944 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| 6 | Alvin Pierson | 1945 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 2 | .348 | 1 |
| 7 | James Bradshaw (totals included on line 4) |
1946 | ||||||
| 8 | Ken Gleason | 1947–1948 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 3 | .357 | 0 |
| 9 | Alvin Pierson (totals included on line 6) |
1949 | ||||||
| 10 | Duke Jacobs | 1950–1951 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 12 | .395 | 0 |
| 11 | Clark Van Galder | 1952–1958 | 7 | 46 | 22 | 2 | .671 | 0 |
| 12 | Cecil Coleman | 1959–1963 | 5 | 37 | 13 | 0 | .740 | 1 |
| 13 | Phil Krueger | 1964–1965 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 0 | .500 | 0 |
| 14 | Darryl Rogers | 1966–1972 | 7 | 43 | 32 | 1 | .573 | 2 |
| 15 | J. R. Boone | 1973–1975 | 3 | 10 | 24 | 0 | .294 | 0 |
| 16 | Jim Sweeney (totals included on line 18) |
1976–1977 | ||||||
| 17 | Bob Padilla | 1978–1979 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 0 | .318 | 1 |
| 18 | Jim Sweeney | 1980–1996 | 19 | 143 | 75 | 3 | .654 | 7 |
| 19 | Pat Hill | 1997–2011 | 15 | 112 | 80 | 0 | .583 | 11 |
| 20 | Tim DeRuyter | 2012–2016 | 5 | 30 | 30 | 0 | .500 | 3 |
| 21 | Eric Kiesau | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| 22 | Jeff Tedford | 2017–2019 | 5 | 45 | 22 | 0 | .671 | 3 |
| 23 | Kalen DeBoer | 2020–2021 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 0 | .667 | 0 |
| 24 | Jeff Tedford (totals included on line 22) |
2022-PRESENT | ||||||
| Totals | 1921–2019 | 99 | 613 | 431 | 28 | .585 | 25 |
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