List of Washington State Cougars head football coaches

The Washington State Cougars college football team represents the Washington State University in the North Division of the Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12). The Cougars compete as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 32 head coaches since it began play during the 1894 season.

On November 30, 2011, Mike Leach agreed to terms and became head coach.

Head coaching history

Tenure	Coach	Years	Record	Pct.
1894	William Goodyear	1	1–1	.500
1895	Fred Waite	1	2–0	1.000
1896	David A. Brodie	1	2–0–1	.833
1897	Robert Gailey	1	2–0	1.000
1898–99	Frank Shively	2	1–1–1	.500
1900, 1902	William L. Allen	2	6–3–1	.650
1901	William Namack	1	4–1	.800
1903	James N. Ashmore	1	3–3–2	.500
1904–1905	Everett Sweeley	2	6–6	.500
1906–1907, 1912–1914	John R. Bender	5	21–12	.636
1908	Walter Rheinschild	1	4–0–2	.833
1909	Willis Kienholz	1	4–1	.800
1910–1911	Oscar Osthoff	2	5–6	.455
1915–1917	William Henry Dietz	3	17–2–1	.875
1918	Emory Alvord	1	1–1	.500
1919–1922	Gus Welch	4	16–10–1	.611
1923–1925	Albert Exendine	3	6–13–4	.348
1926–1942	Babe Hollingbery	15	93–53–14	.625
1943–1944	World War II – no teams
1945–1949	Phil Sarboe	5	17–26–3	.402
1950–1951	Forest Evashevski	2	11–6–2	.632
1952–1955	Al Kircher	4	13–25–2	.350
1956–1963	Jim Sutherland	8	37–39–4	.488
1964–1967	Bert Clark	4	15–24–1	.388
1968–1975	Jim Sweeney	8	26–59–1	.308
1976	Jackie Sherrill	1	3–8	.273
1977	Warren Powers	1	6–5	.545
1978–1986	Jim Walden	9	44–52–4	.460
1987–1988	Dennis Erickson	2	12–10–1	.543
1989–2002	Mike Price	14	83–78	.516
2003–2007	Bill Doba	5	30–29	.508
2008–2011	Paul Wulff	4	9–40	.184
2012–present	Mike Leach	7	49-40	.551
Totals	33 coaches	117 seasons	505–528–45	.489