List of Florida Gators head football coaches



This list of Florida Gators head football coaches includes those coaches who have led the Florida Gators football team that represents the University of Florida in the sport of American football. The Florida Gators currently compete in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Twenty-three men have served as the Gators' head coach, including three who served as interim head coach, since the Gators began play in the fall of 1906. In December 2010, Will Muschamp was hired as the Gators' latest head coach and Muschamp assumed full responsibility for the team after his predecessor, Urban Meyer, coached the Gators in their January 2011 bowl game.

The Gators have fielded a team every season since 1906, with the exception of 1943, and have played more than 1,000 games during 105 seasons. During that time, twelve coaches have led the Gators in postseason bowl games: George E. Pyle, Bob Woodruff, Ray Graves, Doug Dickey, Charley Pell, Galen Hall, Gary Darnell, Steve Spurrier, Ron Zook, Charlie Strong, Urban Meyer, and Will Muschamp. Two Gators coaches have also won SEC championships: Spurrier won six, and Meyer won two. During their tenures, Spurrier won one and Meyer won two national championships with the Gators.

Spurrier is the leader in seasons coached, games won and winning percentage, with 122 victories and a winning percentage of .817 during his twelve years leading the program. Raymond Wolf has the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with .359. Of the twenty-three head coaches who have led the Gators, Charlie Bachman, Graves and Dickey have been inducted as head coaches into the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Indiana.