List of Ohio State Buckeyes head football coaches

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Urban Meyer, head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes from 2012 to 2018

The Ohio State Buckeyes college football team represents the Ohio State University in the East Division of the Big Ten Conference. The Buckeyes compete as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 25 coaches since it began play during the 1890 season.[1] The Buckeyes have played over 1,200 games over 125 seasons. In those seasons, nine head coaches have led the Buckeyes to postseason bowl games: John Wilce, Wes Fesler, Woody Hayes, Earle Bruce, John Cooper, Jim Tressel, Luke Fickell, Urban Meyer, and Ryan Day. 13 coaches have won conference championships with the Buckeyes: Albert Herrnstein, John Richards, Wilce, Francis Schmidt, Paul Brown, Carroll Widdoes, Fesler, Hayes, Bruce, Cooper, Tressel, Meyer, and Day. Five coaches led the Buckeyes to national championships: Brown, Hayes, Tressel, Meyer, and Day. Hayes is the all-time leader in games coached and years coached with the Buckeyes, while also leading all coaches in victories (205). Meyer currently holds the highest winning percentage of all Buckeye coaches (.902), with a record of 83–9 through seven seasons. David Edwards holds the lowest winning percentage of any Buckeye head coach (.167), going 1–7–1 in the only season that he coached. Of the 24 Buckeye head coaches, Howard Jones, Wilce, Schmidt, Fesler, Hayes, Bruce, Cooper, Tressel, and Meyer have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. The previous head coach of the Buckeyes was Urban Meyer who was hired in November 2011[2] and then announced December 4, 2018, he would retire following the Rose Bowl. Ryan Day then became the new coach of the Buckeyes.[3]

Coaches

# Name Term GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL CCs DCs NCs National awards
1 Alexander Lilley 1890–1891 8 3 5 0 .375 — — — — — — — — — —
2 Jack Ryder 1892–1895, 1898 46 22 22 1 .500 — — — — — — — — — —
3 Charles Hickey[A 7] 1896 11 5 5 1 .500 — — — — — — — — — —
4 David Edwards 1897 9 1 7 1 .167 — — — — — — — — — —
5 John Eckstorm 1899–1901 29 22 4 3 .810 — — — — — — — — — —
6 Perry Hale 1902–1903 21 14 5 2 .714 5 2 0 .714 — — — — — —
7 Edwin Sweetland 1904–1905 23 14 7 2 .652 4 1 1 .750 — — — — — —
8 Albert Herrnstein 1906–1909 39 28 10 1 .731 17 6 1 .729 — — 1 — — —
9 Howard Jones[8]† 1910 10 6 1 3 .750 5 1 2 .750 — — — — — —
10 Harry Vaughan 1911 10 5 3 2 .600 4 1 2 .714 — — — — — —
11 John Richards 1912 9 6 3 0 .667 5 0 0 1.000 — — 1 — — —
12 John Wilce[9]† 1913–1928 120 78 33 9 .688 37 30 4 .549 0 1 3 — — —
13 Sam Willaman 1929–1933 41 26 10 5 .695 14 8 4 .615 — — — — — —
14 Francis Schmidt[10]† 1934–1940 56 39 16 1 .705 30 9 1 .763 — — 2 — — —
15 Paul Brown 1941–1943 27 18 8 1 .685 9 6 1 .594 — — 1 — 1 – 1942 —
16 Carroll Widdoes 1944–1945 18 16 2 0 .889 11 2 0 .846 — — 1 — — AFCA Coach of the Year (1944)[11]
17 Paul Bixler 1946 9 4 3 2 .556 2 3 1 .417 — — — — — —
18 Wes Fesler[12]† 1947–1950 37 21 13 3 .608 13 10 2 .560 1 0 1 — — —
19 Woody Hayes[13]† 1951–1978 276 205 61 10 .761 152 37 7 .793 5 6 13 — 5 – 1954, 1957, 1961, 1968, 1970 AFCA Coach of the Year (1957)[11]
Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (1957, 1968, 1975)[14]
Walter Camp Coach of the Year (1968)[15]
20 Earle Bruce[16]† 1979–1987 108 81 26 1 .755 57 17 0 .770 5 3 4 — — AFCA Coach of the Year (1979)[11]
Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (1979)[14]
Woody Hayes Trophy (1979)[17]
21 John Cooper[18]† 1988–2000 158 111 43 4 .715 70 30 4 .692 3 8 3 — — —
22 Jim Tressel[19][A 8] 2001–2010 128 94 22 — .810 59 14 — .808 5 4 6 — 1 – 2002 AFCA Coach of the Year (2002)[11]
Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (2002)[14]
Paul "Bear" Bryant Award (2002)[21]
Woody Hayes Trophy (2002)[17]
Int Luke Fickell[A 9] 2011 13 6 7 — .462 3 5 — .375 0 1 — — — —
23 Urban Meyer 2012–2018 92 83 9 — .902 54 4 — .931 5 2 3 7 1 – 2014 Woody Hayes Trophy (2012)[17]
24 Ryan Day[A 10] 2019–present 94 82 12 — .872 54 5 — .915 4 4 2 3 1 — 2024 —

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