List of BYU Cougars head football coaches

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LaVell Edwards served as head coach of the BYU Cougars from 1972 to 2000 and is the winningest coach in program history.

The BYU Cougars college football team represents Brigham Young University (BYU) in the Big 12 Conference (Big 12). The Cougars competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 14 head coaches since it began play during the 1922 season. Since December 2015, Kalani Sitake has served as head coach at BYU.[1]

Five coaches have led BYU in postseason bowl games: Tommy Hudspeth, LaVell Edwards, Gary Crowton, Bronco Mendenhall, and Kalani Sitake. Four of those coaches also won conference championships: Hudspeth captured one and Edwards 18 as a member of the Western Athletic Conference; and Edwards and Crowton captured one and Mendenhall two as a member of the Mountain West Conference.

Edwards is the leader in seasons coached, games won, and winning percentage, with 257 victories (0.716 winning percentage) during his 29 years with the program. Hal Mitchell has the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with 0.267. Of the 14 different head coaches who have led the Cougars, Edwards has 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
1 Alvin Twitchell 1922–1924 19 5 13 1 0.289 3 13 1 0.206 0 0 0 0 0
2 Charles J. Hart 1925–1927 20 6 12 2 0.350 6 11 1 0.361 0 0 0 0 0
3 G. Ott Romney 1928–1936 81 44 31 6 0.580 31 26 2 0.542 0 0 0 0 0
4 & 6 Eddie Kimball 1937–1941
1946–1948		 74 34 32 8 0.514 20 20 7 0.500 0 0 0 0 0
5 Floyd Millet 1942 7 2 5 0 0.286 1 4 0 0.200 0 0 0 0 0
7 Chick Atkinson 1949–1955 70 18 49 3 0.279 8 33 3 0.216 0 0 0 0 0
8 Hal Kopp 1956–1958 30 13 14 3 0.483 11 8 2 0.571 0 0 0 0 0
9 Tally Stevens 1959–1960 21 6 15 0 0.286 4 10 0 0.286 0 0 0 0 0
10 Hal Mitchell 1961–1963 30 8 22 0 0.267 4 10 0 0.286 0 0 0 0 0
11 Tommy Hudspeth 1964–1971 82 39 42 1 0.482 19 27 0 0.413 0 0 0 1 0
12 LaVell Edwards† 1972–2000 361 257 101 3 0.716 175 42 2 0.804 7 14 1 19 1
13 Gary Crowton 2001–2004 49 26 23 — 0.531 16 12 — 0.571 0 1 — 1 0
14 Bronco Mendenhall 2005–2015 142 99 43 — 0.697 39 9 — 0.813 6 5 — 2 0
15 Kalani Sitake 2016–present 129 84 45 — 0.651 17 10 — 0.630 6 2 — 0 0

Awards

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References

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