List of Utah State Aggies head football coaches

Dick Romney coached in the most seasons and won the most games during his tenure at Utah State.

The Utah State Aggies college football team represents Utah State University in the Mountain West Conference (MWC), as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 28 head coaches, and 2 interim head coaches, since it began play during the 1892 season. Since December 2024, Bronco Mendenhall has served as head coach of the Aggies.^[1]

Nine coaches have led Utah State in postseason bowl games: Dick Romney, John Ralston, Charlie Weatherbie, John L. Smith, Gary Andersen, Matt Wells, Frank Maile, Blake Anderson, and Mendenhall. Seven coaches also won conference championships: Romney captured three as a member of the Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic Conference; Romney captured one and Ralston two as a member of the Skyline Conference; Snyder captured two as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association; Weatherbie captured one and Smith two as a member of the Big West Conference; Andersen captured one as a member of the Western Athletic Conference; Anderson captured one as a member of the MWC.

Romney is the leader in seasons coached, with 29 years as head coach and games coached (235), won (128). Mysterious Walker has the highest winning percentage at .909. Brent Guy has the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with .191. Of the 27 different head coaches who have led the Aggies, Romney and Ralston 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	Year(s)	Season(s)	GC	OW	OL	OT	O%	CW	CL	CT	C%	PW	PL	PT	DC	CC	Awards
1	J. Walter Mayo	1896	1	1	0	1	0	.000	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2	Samuel Dunning	1898	1	1	0	1	0	.000	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
3	Willard Langton	1899–1900	2	3	1	2	0	0.333	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4	Dick Richards	1901	1	5	3	2	0	0.600	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
5	George P. Campbell	1902–1906	5	30	12	16	2	0.433	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
6	Mysterious Walker	1907–1908	2	11	10	1	0	0.909	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
7	Clayton Teetzel	1909–1915	7	44	24	18	2	0.568	0	6	0	.000	—	—	—	—	0	—
8	Jack Watson	1916–1917	2	15	8	5	2	0.600	4	3	1	0.563	—	—	—	—	0	—
9	Dick Romney^†	1918–1942 1944–1948	25, 5	235	128	91	16	0.579	88	71	12	0.550	0	2	0	—	4	—
10	George Melinkovich	1949–1950	2	21	5	16	0	0.238	1	8	0	0.111	0	0	0	—	0	—
11	John Roning	1951–1954	4	41	18	21	2	0.463	14	15	1	0.483	0	0	0	—	0	—
12	Ev Faunce	1955–1958	4	40	15	24	1	0.388	10	17	1	0.375	0	0	0	—	0	—
13	John Ralston^†	1959–1962	4	43	31	11	1	0.733	13	6	1	0.675	0	2	0	—	2	—
14	Tony Knap	1963–1966	4	40	25	14	1	0.638	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	—	—	—
15	Chuck Mills	1967–1972	6	62	38	23	1	0.621	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	—	—	—
16	Phil Krueger	1973–1975	3	33	21	12	0	0.636	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	—	—	—
17	Bruce Snyder	1976–1982	7	77	38	37	2	0.506	18	6	1	0.740	0	0	0	—	2	—
18	Chris Pella	1983–1985	3	33	9	24	0	0.273	7	12	0	0.368	0	0	0	—	0	—
19	Chuck Shelton	1986–1991	5	66	26	39	1	0.402	25	16	1	0.607	0	0	0	—	0	—
20	Charlie Weatherbie	1992–1994	3	34	15	19	0	0.441	11	7	0	0.611	1	0	0	—	1	—
21	John L. Smith	1995–1997	3	34	16	18	0	0.471	12	4	0	0.750	0	1	0	—	2	—
22	Dave Arslanian	1998–1999	2	22	7	15	—	0.318	5	6	—	0.455	0	0	—	—	0	—
23	Mick Dennehy	2000–2004	5	56	19	37	—	0.339	9	9	—	0.500	0	0	—	—	0	—
24	Brent Guy	2005–2008	4	47	9	38	—	0.191	8	24	—	0.250	0	0	—	—	0	—
25	Gary Andersen	2009–2012 2019–2020	4, 2	66	33	33	—	0.500	22	18	—	0.550	1	2	—	0	1	—
26	Matt Wells	2013–2018	6	78	44	34	—	0.564	30	18	—	0.625	2	2	—	1	0	—
Int	Frank Maile ^{[A 6]}	2018 2020	1, 1	4	2	2	—	0.500	1	2	—	0.333	1	0	—	0	0	—
27	Blake Anderson	2021–2023	3	40	23	17	—	0.575	15	9	—	0.625	1	2	—	1	1	—
Int	Nate Dreiling ^{[A 7]}	2024	1	12	4	8	—	0.333	3	4	—	0.429	0	0	—	0	0	—
28	Bronco Mendenhall	2025–present	1	13	6	7	—	0.462	4	4	—	0.500	0	1	—	0	0	—

v t e Utah State Aggies football
Venues	Romney Stadium (I) (1927–1967) Maverik Stadium (1968–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games BYU Utah: Battle of the Brothers Wyoming Beehive Boot (BYU, Utah)
Culture & lore	Big Blue "Hail the Utah Aggies" The Scotsman The Hurd Marching band
People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	1892 1893–1895 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 Utah State Aggies head football coaches

Coaches

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