List of Georgia Bulldogs head football coaches

The Georgia Bulldogs college football team represents the University of Georgia in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The Bulldogs compete as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The school has had 26 head coaches since it began play during the 1892 season.^[1] Kirby Smart is the current head coach of the bulldogs.

The team has played more than 1,300 games over 132 seasons of Georgia football.^[2] Six coaches have led the Bulldogs to postseason bowl games: Wally Butts, Vince Dooley, Ray Goff, Jim Donnan, Mark Richt, and Kirby Smart.^[2] Five coaches also won conference championships: Herman Stegeman won one as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association; Butts, Dooley, Richt, and Smart won a combined 15 as a member of the SEC.^[2] During their tenures, Butts and Dooley each won one and Smart won two national championship with the Bulldogs.^[2]^[3]

Dooley is the leader in seasons coached and games won, with 201 victories during his 25 years with the Bulldogs.^[1]^[2] Smart has the highest winning percentage with a record of 105–19 (.847), and Charles A. Barnard has the lowest winning percentage at 1–5 (.167).^[2] Five of the team's coaches—Pop Warner, Butts, Dooley, Donnan, and Richt—have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

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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 ^{[A 6]}	Season(s)	GC	OW	OL	OT	O%	CW	CL	CT	C%	PW	PL	PT	DC ^{[A 7]}	CC	NC	Awards
1	Charles Herty	1892	1	2	1	1	0	0.500	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	—
2	Ernest Brown	1893	1	5	2	2	1	0.500	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	—
3	Robert Winston	1894	1	6	5	1	0	0.833	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	—
4	Pop Warner^†	1895–1896	2	11	7	4	0	0.636	5	4	0	0.556	—	—	—	—	0	0	—
5	Charles McCarthy	1897–1898	2	9	6	3	0	0.667	5	2	0	0.714	—	—	—	—	0	0	—
6	Gordon Saussy	1899	1	6	2	3	1	0.417	2	3	1	0.417	—	—	—	—	0	0	—
7	E. E. Jones	1900	1	6	2	4	0	0.333	1	3	0	0.250	—	—	—	—	0	0	—
8	William A. Reynolds	1901–1902	2	15	5	7	3	0.433	4	7	3	0.393	—	—	—	—	0	0	—
9	Marvin D. Dickinson	1903, 1905	1, 1	13	4	9	0	0.308	3	7	0	0.300	—	—	—	—	0	0	—
10	Charles A. Barnard	1904	1	6	1	5	0	0.167	0	4	0	.000	—	—	—	—	0	0	—
11	George S. Whitney	1906–1907	2	15	6	7	2	0.467	3	6	2	0.364	—	—	—	—	0	0	—
12	Branch Bocock	1908	1	8	5	2	1	0.688	3	2	1	0.583	—	—	—	—	0	0	—
13	Joseph Coulter ^{[A 8]}	1909	1	7	1	4	2	0.286	1	4	1	0.250	—	—	—	—	0	0	—
14	Frank Dobson ^{[A 8]}	1909	1	7	1	4	2	0.286	1	4	1	0.250	—	—	—	—	0	0	—
15	W. A. Cunningham	1910–1916, 1919	7, 1	70	43	18	9	0.679	37	17	9	0.659	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
16	Herman Stegeman	1920–1922	3	29	20	6	3	0.741	15	3	3	0.786	0	0	0	—	1	0	—
17	George Cecil Woodruff	1923–1927	5	47	30	16	1	0.649	21	10	0	0.677	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
18	Harry Mehre	1928–1937	10	99	59	34	6	0.626	29	25	5	0.500	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
19	Joel Hunt	1938	1	10	5	4	1	0.550	1	2	1	0.375	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
20	Wally Butts^†	1939–1960	22	235	140	86	9	0.615	66	60	5	0.523	5	2	1	—	4	1 – 1942	AP SEC Coach of the Year (1946)^[13] SEC Coach of the Year (1942, 1946, 1959)^[13]
21	Johnny Griffith	1961–1963	3	30	10	16	4	0.400	6	12	1	0.342	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
22	Vince Dooley^†	1964–1988	25	288	201	77	10	0.715	108	41	4	0.719	8	10	2	—	6	1 – 1980	Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award (1976)^[14] AFCA Coach of the Year (1980)^[15] FWAA Coach of the Year (1980)^[13] Sporting News College Football Coach of the Year (1980)^[16] Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award (1980)^[17] AP SEC Coach of the Year (1966, 1968, 1976, 1980)^[13] UPI SEC Coach of the Year (1966, 1968, 1976)^[13] SEC Coach of the Year (1966, 1968, 1976, 1978, 1980)^[13]
23	Ray Goff	1989–1995	7	81	46	34	1	0.574	24	28	1	0.462	2	2	0	0	0	0	—
24	Jim Donnan^†	1996–2000	5	59	40	19	—	0.678	25	15	—	0.625	4	0	—	0	0	0	SEC Coach of the Year (1997)^[13]
25	Mark Richt^†	2001–2015	15	196	145	51	—	0.740	83	37	—	0.692	9	5	—	5	2	0	AP SEC Coach of the Year (2002)^[13] SEC Coach of the Year (2002, 2005)^[13]
26	Kirby Smart	2016–present	10	138	117	21	—	0.848	69	12	—	0.852	9	4	—	4	5	2 – 2021, 2022	AP SEC Coach of the Year (2017) SEC Coach of the Year (2017, 2021, 2022)

v t e Georgia Bulldogs football
Venues	Herty Field (1892–1910) Sanford Field (1911–1928) Sanford Stadium (1929–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Alabama Auburn: Deep South's Oldest Rivalry Clemson Florida Georgia Tech: Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate South Carolina Tennessee Vanderbilt
Culture & lore	History Hairy Dawg Uga "Glory, Glory" Georgia Redcoat Marching Band First forward pass 1927 Yale game Prayer at Jordan–Hare 2024 Georgia Tech game
People	Head coaches Steadman V. Sanford Georgia Joker Larry Munson Morgan Blake NFL draftees Starting quarterbacks Statistical leaders
Seasons	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
National championship seasons in bold

List of Georgia Bulldogs head football coaches

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