List of Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders head football coaches

Rick Stockstill served as head coach of the Blue Raiders from 2006 to 2023.

The Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders college football team represents Middle Tennessee State University in Conference USA (C-USA), as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 16 head coaches since it began play during the 1911 season. Since December 2023, Derek Mason has served as head coach at Middle Tennessee.^[1]

Three coaches have led Middle Tennessee in postseason playoff or bowl games: Charles M. Murphy, Boots Donnelly, and Rick Stockstill. Five coaches have won conference championships: Johnny Floyd won two as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association; Charles M. Murphy won nine as a member of the Volunteer State Athletic Conference; Murphy won seven and Boots Donnelly won four as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference; and Andy McCollum and Stockstill each won one as a member of the Sun Belt Conference.

Murphy is the leader in seasons coached, with 22 years as head coach and in games coached (226) and won (155). Johnny Floyd has the highest winning percentage at 0.782. Donald E. Fuoss has the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with 0.100. Of the 16 different head coaches who have led the Blue Raiders, Donnelly has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

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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	Years(s)^{[A 6]}	Seasons	GC	OW	OL	OT	O%	CW	CL	CT	C%	PW	PL	PT	DC	CC	Awards
1	L. T. "Mutt" Weber	1911–1912	2	2	1	1	0	0.500	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2	Alfred B. Miles	1913–1916 1919–1923	4, 5	54	36	14	4	0.704	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
3	Johnny Floyd	1917 1935–1938	4	39	30	8	1	0.782	12	6	1	0.658	—	—	—	—	2	—
4	Guy Stephenson	1924–1925	2	17	4	11	2	0.294	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
5	Frank Faulkinberry	1926–1932	7	63	33	26	4	0.556	2	3	0	0.400	—	—	—	—	0	—
6	E. M. Waller	1933–1934	2	18	3	14	1	0.194	1	7	0	0.125	—	—	—	—	0	—
7	Ernest Alley	1939	1	8	1	6	1	0.188	1	5	1	0.214	—	—	—	—	0	—
8	Elwin W. Midgett	1940–1942 1946	3, 1	32	18	11	3	0.609	4	7	1	0.375	—	—	—	—	0	—
9	Charles M. Murphy	1947–1968	22	226	155	63	8	0.704	90	19	1	0.823	2	2	0	—	16	OVC Coach of the Year (1965)
10	Donald E. Fuoss	1969	1	10	1	9	0	0.100	1	6	0	0.143	0	0	0	—	0	—
11	Bill Peck	1970–1974	5	54	27	25	2	0.519	17	16	2	0.514	0	0	0	—	0	—
12	Ben Hurt	1975–1978	4	44	12	31	1	0.284	8	19	0	0.296	0	0	0	—	0	—
13	Boots Donnelly^†	1979–1998	20	214	133	80	1	0.624	93	48	0	0.660	7	7	0	—	4	OVC Coach of the Year (1977, 1983, 1985, 1989)
14	Andy McCollum	1999–2005	7	79	34	45	—	0.430	17	16	—	0.515	0	0	—	—	1	—
15	Rick Stockstill	2006–2023	18	224	113	111	—	0.504	82	58	—	0.586	4	6	—	1	1	Sun Belt Coach of the Year (2006, 2009) C-USA Coach of the Year (2018)
16	Derek Mason	2024–present	2	24	6	18	—	0.250	4	12	—	0.250	0	0	—	—	0	—

v t e Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football
Venues	Johnny "Red" Floyd Stadium (1933–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Troy: Battle for the Palladium Western Kentucky: 100 Miles of Hate
Culture & lore	Lightning "MTSU Fight Songs" Band of Blue
People	Head coaches Statistical leaders NFL draftees
Seasons	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

List of Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders head football coaches

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