List of Bucknell Bison head football coaches

The Bucknell Bison football program is a college football team that represents Bucknell University in the Patriot League, a part of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The team has had 29 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1883. The current coach is Jeff Behrman, who took the position prior to the 2026 season.^[1]

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]}

No.	Name	Term	GC	OW	OL	OT	O%
—	No coach	1883–1892	34	13	18	3	.426
1	Will Young	1893–1896	30	19	10	1	.650
2	George Jennings	1897–1898	18	7	7	4	.500
3	George W. Hoskins	1899–1906, 1909	81	40	37	4	.519
4	James H. Costello	1907	11	4	7	0	.364
5	Paul G. Smith	1908	10	3	5	2	.400
6	Byron W. Dickson	1910–1913	38	20	16	2	.553
7	George Cockill	1914	9	4	4	1	.500
8	George Johnson	1915–1917	32	8	20	4	.313
9	Edgar Wingard	1918	6	6	0	0	1.000
10	Pete Reynolds	1919–1923	48	27	18	3	.594
11	Charley Moran	1924–1926	31	19	10	2	.645
12	Carl Snavely	1927–1933	66	42	16	8	.697
13	Edward Mylin	1934–1936	29	17	9	3	.638
14	Al Humphreys	1937–1942, 1946	59	30	24	5	.551
15	John Sitarsky	1943	10	6	4	0	.600
16	J. Ellwood Ludwig	1944–1945	17	9	7	1	.559
17	Harry Lawrence	1947–1957	97	45	51	1	.469
18	Bob Odell	1958–1964	63	37	26	0	.587
19	Carroll Huntress	1965–1968	38	19	19	0	.500
20	Fred Prender	1969–1974	57	23	31	3	.430
21	Bob Curtis	1975–1985	107	48	56	3	.463
22	George Landis	1986–1988	30	10	19	1	.350
23	Lou Maranzana	1989–1994	64	26	38	0	.406
24	Tom Gadd	1995–2001	76	48	28	0	.632
25	Dave Kotulski	2002	11	2	9	0	.182
26	Tim Landis	2003–2009	78	32	46	0	.410
27	Joe Susan	2010–2018	99	38	61	0	.384
28	Dave Cecchini^[5]	2019–2025	72	24	48	0	.333
29	Jeff Behrman	2026–present	0	0	0	0	–

v t e Bucknell Bison football
Venues	Christy Mathewson–Memorial Stadium (1924–present)
Bowls & rivalries	1935 Orange Bowl
Culture & lore	"Ray Bucknell" 2021 Patriot League Football Championship Game
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1881 1882 1883 1884–1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 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 1944 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 2026

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