List of Oregon State Beavers head football coaches

The Oregon State Beavers college football team represents Oregon State University in the Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12). The Beavers compete as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 33 head coaches and three interim head coaches since it began play during the 1893 season. Since November 2025, JaMarcus Shephard has served as head coach of the Beavers.^[1]

Five coaches have led Oregon State in postseason bowl games: Lon Stiner, Tommy Prothro, Dennis Erickson, Mike Riley, and Jonathan Smith. Three of those coaches also won conference championships: Stiner captured one and Prothro two as a member of the Pacific Coast Conference; Prothro captured one as a member of the Athletic Association of Western Universities; and Erickson captured one as a member of the Pacific-10.

Stiner and Riley are tied as leader in seasons coached with 14 years as head coach of the program. Riley has the most all-time wins with 93 and Will Bloss has the highest winning percentage at 0.909. Cory Hall has the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with 0.000. Of the 33 different head coaches who have led the Beavers, Prothro and Erickson have 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 ^{[A 6]}	Season(s) ^{[A 7]}	GC	OW	OL	OT	O%	CW	CL	CT	C%	PW	PL	PT	CC	NC	Awards
1 5	Will Bloss	1893 1897	11	10	1	0	0.909	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2	Guy Kennedy	1894	3	2	1	0	0.667	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
3	Paul Downing	1895	3	0	2	1	0.167	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4	Tommy Code	1896	3	1	2	0	0.333	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
6	Hiland Orlando Stickney	1899	5	3	2	0	0.600	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
7	Fred Herbold	1902	6	4	1	1	0.750	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
8	Thomas L. McFadden	1903	7	2	4	1	0.357	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
9	Allen Steckle	1904–1905	15	10	5	0	0.667	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
10	Fred Norcross	1906–1908	21	14	4	3	0.738	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
11	Sol Metzger	1909	7	4	2	1	0.643	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
12	George Schildmiller	1910	6	3	2	1	0.583	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
13	Sam Dolan	1911–1912	14	8	6	0	0.571	3	4	0	0.429	—	—	—	0	—	—
14	E. J. Stewart	1913–1915	21	15	5	5	0.700	7	3	3	0.654	—	—	—	0	—	—
15	Joseph Pipal	1916–1917	16	8	7	1	0.531	1	4	1	0.250	—	—	—	0	—	—
16	Homer Woodson Hargiss	1918–1919	15	6	8	1	0.433	1	5	0	0.167	—	—	—	0	—	—
17	Dick Rutherford	1920–1923	33	13	14	6	0.485	6	10	3	0.395	—	—	—	0	—	—
18	Paul J. Schissler	1924–1932	80	48	30	2	0.613	22	27	1	0.450	—	—	—	0	—	—
19	Lon Stiner	1933–1942 1945–1948	140	74	49	17	0.589	49	42	13	0.534	3	0	0	1	—	—
20	Kip Taylor	1949–1954	56	20	36	0	0.357	15	30	0	0.333	0	0	0	0	—	—
21	Tommy Prothro^†	1955–1964	102	63	37	2	0.627	25	9	1	0.729	1	2	0	3	—	—
22	Dee Andros	1965–1975	116	51	64	1	0.444	30	37	1	0.449	0	0	0	0	—	—
23	Craig Fertig	1976–1979	45	10	34	1	0.233	5	26	0	0.161	0	0	0	0	—	—
24	Joe Avezzano	1980–1984	55	6	47	2	0.127	2	35	2	0.077	0	0	0	0	—	—
25	Dave Kragthorpe	1985–1990	67	17	48	2	0.269	10	33	2	0.244	0	0	0	0	—	Pac-10 Coach of the Year (1989)^[5]
26	Jerry Pettibone	1991–1996	66	13	52	1	0.205	6	41	1	0.135	0	0	0	0	—	—
27 29	Mike Riley	1997–1998 2003–2014	173	93	80	—	0.538	58	63	—	0.479	6	2	—	0	—	Pac-10 Coach of the Year (2008)^[5]
28	Dennis Erickson^†	1999–2002	48	31	17	—	0.646	18	14	—	0.563	1	2	—	1	—	TSN College COY (2000)^[6] Pac-10 Coach of the Year (2000)^[5]
30	Gary Andersen	2015–2017	30	7	23	—	0.233	3	18	—	0.143	0	0	—	0	—	—
Int.	Cory Hall	2017	6	0	6	—	.000	0	6	—	.000	0	0	—	0	—	—
31	Jonathan Smith	2018–2023	69	34	35	—	0.493	23	29	—	0.442	1	1	—	0	—	Pac-12 Coach of the Year (2022)^[7]
Int.	Kefense Hynson	2023	1	0	1	—	.000	0	0	—	–	0	1	—	0	—	—
32	Trent Bray	2024–2025^[8]	19	5	14	—	0.263	1	0	—	1.000	0	0	—	0	—	—
Int.	Robb Akey ^{[A 8]}	2025	5	2	3	—	0.400	0	0	—	–	0	0	—	0	—	—
33	JaMarcus Shephard	2026–present	0	0	0	—	–	0	0	—	–	0	0	—	0	—	—

v t e Oregon State Beavers football
Venues	Bell Field (1909–1952) Reser Stadium (1953–present) Multnomah Stadium (alternate)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Oregon Platypus Trophy Northwest Championship
Culture & lore	History Benny Beaver "Hail to Old OSU" Marching band Pyramid Play "The Toilet Bowl" 1985 Washington game
People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	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

List of Oregon State Beavers head football coaches

Coaches

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