List of Arizona State Sun Devils head football coaches

The Arizona State Sun Devils college football team represents Arizona State University in the Big 12 Conference. The Sun Devils compete as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 24 head coaches and two interim head coaches since it began play during the 1897 season. Since November 2022, Kenny Dillingham has served as head coach at Arizona State.^[1]

Eleven coaches have led Arizona State in postseason bowl games: Dixie Howell, Ed Doherty, Frank Kush, Darryl Rogers, John Cooper, Bruce Snyder, Dirk Koetter, Dennis Erickson, Todd Graham, Herm Edwards, and Dillingham. Eight of those coaches also won conference championships: Ted Shipkey, Clyde B. Smith, and Dan Devine each captured one and Kush two as a member of the Border Conference; Kush captured seven as a member of the Western Athletic Conference; Cooper and Snyder each captured one as a member of the Pacific-10; and Dillingham captured one as a member of the Big 12.

Kush is the leader in seasons coached and games won, with 176 victories during his 22 years with the program. Devine has the highest winning percentage at 0.887. George E. Cooper has the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with 0.000. Of the 24 different head coaches who have led the Sun Devils, Howell, Devine, Kush, Cooper, and Erickson have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Key to symbols in coaches list
General		Overall		Conference		Postseason^{[A 1]}
No.	Order of coaches^{[A 2]}	GC	Games coached	CW	Conference wins	PW	Postseason wins
DC	Division championships	OW	Overall wins	CL	Conference losses	PL	Postseason losses
CC	Conference championships	OL	Overall losses	CT	Conference ties	PT	Postseason ties
NC	National championships	OT	Overall 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]}
No.	Name	Season(s) ^{[A 6]}	GC	OW	OL	OT	O%	CW	CL	CT	C%	PW	PL	PT	CC	NC	Awards
1	Frederick M. Irish	1897 1899–1900 1902–1906	20	12	8	0	0.600	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2	George Schaeffer	1914–1916	15	7	8	0	0.467	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
3	George E. Cooper	1919	2	0	2	0	.000	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4	Ernest C. Wills	1922	4	0	3	1	0.125	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
5	Aaron McCreary	1923–1929	46	25	17	4	0.587	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
6	Ted Shipkey	1930–1932	25	13	10	2	0.560	5	2	0	0.714	—	—	—	1	—	—
7	Rudy Lavik	1933–1937	42	13	26	3	0.345	8	15	2	0.360	—	—	—	0	—	—
8	Dixie Howell^†	1938–1941	42	23	15	4	0.595	11	11	2	0.500	0	1	1	0	—	—
9	Hilman Walker	1942	10	2	8	0	0.200	2	5	0	0.286	0	0	0	0	—	—
10	Steve Coutchie	1946	11	2	7	2	0.273	1	4	1	0.250	0	0	0	0	—	—
11	Ed Doherty	1947–1950	42	25	17	0	0.595	14	8	0	0.636	0	2	0	0	—	—
12	Larry Siemering	1951	10	6	3	1	0.650	4	1	0	0.800	0	0	0	0	—	—
13	Clyde B. Smith	1952–1954	29	15	13	1	0.534	8	4	0	0.667	0	0	0	1	—	—
14	Dan Devine^†	1955–1957	31	27	3	1	0.887	11	2	0	0.846	0	0	0	1	—	—
15	Frank Kush^†	1958–1979	231	176	54	1	0.764	92	25	0	0.786	6	1	0	9	—	AFCA Coach of the Year (1975) Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award (1975)
Int.	Bob Owens	1979	7	3	4	0	0.429	1	3	0	0.250	0	0	0	0	—	—
16	Darryl Rogers	1980–1984	56	37	18	1	0.670	21	14	1	0.597	1	0	0	0	—	—
17	John Cooper^†	1985–1987	36	25	9	2	0.722	13	6	2	0.667	2	1	0	1	—	Sporting News College Football COY (1986)
18	Larry Marmie	1988–1991	44	22	21	1	0.511	12	16	1	0.431	0	0	0	0	—	—
19	Bruce Snyder	1992–2000	103	58	45	0	0.563	40	32	0	0.556	1	3	0	1	—	AFCA Coach of the Year (1996) Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (1996) George Munger Award (1996) Paul "Bear" Bryant Award (1996) Sporting News College Football COY (1996) Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award (1996)
20	Dirk Koetter	2001–2006	74	40	34	—	0.541	21	28	—	0.429	2	2	—	0	—	—
21	Dennis Erickson^†	2007–2011	62	31	31	—	0.500	21	24	—	0.467	0	2	—	1	—	—
22	Todd Graham	2012–2017	78	46	32	—	0.590	31	23	—	0.574	2	3	—	0	—	—
23	Herm Edwards	2018–2022	46	26	20	—	0.565	17	14	—	0.548	1	2	—	0	—	—
Int.	Shaun Aguano	2022	9	2	7	—	0.222	2	7	—	0.222	0	0	—	0	—	—
24	Kenny Dillingham	2023–present	39	22	17	—	0.564	15	12	—	0.556	0	2	—	1	—	—

v t e Arizona State Sun Devils football
Venues	Normal Field (1897–1926) Irish Field (1927–1935) Goodwin Stadium (1936–1957) Mountain America Stadium (1958–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Arizona
Culture & lore	Sparky the Sun Devil "Maroon & Gold" Marching band Stomp the Bus
People	Head coaches Players NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907–1913 1914 1915 1916 1917–1918 1919 1920–1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943–1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

List of Arizona State Sun Devils head football coaches

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