List of Syracuse Orange head football coaches

The Syracuse Orange college football team represents the Syracuse University in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The Orange compete as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 31 head coaches since it began play during the 1887 season. Fran Brown the current head coach was hired in December of 2023.[1]

Ben Schwartzwalder coaching on a sideline.
Ben Schwartzwalder has the most wins as head coach at Syracuse.

Seven coaches have led Syracuse in postseason bowl games: Ben Schwartzwalder, Frank Maloney, Dick MacPherson, Paul Pasqualoni, Doug Marrone, Scott Shafer, and Babers. Two of those coaches also won conference championships: Pasqualoni captured four and Marrone one as a member of the Big East Conference.

Schwartzwalder is the leader in overall wins and seasons coached with 153 wins during his 25 years as head coach. Pete Reynolds has the highest winning percentage at 0.800. Jordan C. Wells has the lowest winning percentage at 0.056. Of the 30 different head coaches who have led the Orange, Frank "Buck" O'Neill, Howard Jones, Tad Jones, Bill Hollenback, Vic Hanson, Clarence Munn, Schwartzwalder, and MacPherson has 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

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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 Robert Winston 1890 11 7 4 0 0.636
2 William Galbraith 1891 10 4 6 0 0.400
3 Jordan C. Wells 1892 9 0 8 1 0.056
4 George H. Bond 1894 11 6 5 0 0.545
5 George O. Redington 1895–1896 20 11 5 4 0.650
6 Frank E. Wade 1897–1899 28 17 9 2 0.643
7 Edwin Sweetland 1900–1902 27 20 5 2 0.778
8 Jason B. Parrish 1903 9 5 4 0 0.556
9 Ancil D. Brown 1903 9 5 4 0 0.556
10 Charles P. Hutchins 1904–1905 10 14 6 0 0.700
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Frank "Buck" O'Neill 1906–1907
1913–1915
1917–1919
77 52 19 6 0.714
12 Howard Jones 1908 10 6 3 1 0.650
13 Tad Jones 1909–1910 20 9 9 2 0.500
14 C. DeForest Cummings 1911–1912 19 9 8 2 0.526
16 Bill Hollenback 1916 9 5 4 0 0.556
18 Chick Meehan 1920–1924 47 35 8 4 0.787
19 Pete Reynolds 1925–1926 20 15 3 2 0.800
20 Lew Andreas 1927–1929 28 15 10 3 0.589
21 Vic Hanson 1930–1936 59 33 21 5 0.602
22 Ossie Solem 1937–1942
1944–1945
63 30 27 6 0.524
23 Clarence Munn 1946 9 4 5 0 0.444
24 Reaves Baysinger 1947–1948 18 4 14 0 0.222
25 Ben Schwartzwalder 1949–1973 247 153 91 3 0.626 2 5 0 1 AFCA COY (1959)
FWAA COY (1959)
26 Frank Maloney 1974–1980 78 32 46 0 0.410 1 0 0 0
27 Dick MacPherson 1981–1990 116 66 46 4 0.586 3 1 1 0 AFCA COY (1987)
Paul "Bear" Bryant Award (1987)
Bobby Dodd COY (1987)
FWAA COY (1987)
Sporting News COY (1987)
Walter Camp COY (1987)
28 Paul Pasqualoni 1991–2004 167 107 59 1 0.644 73 34 0 0.682 6 3 0 4 0
29 Greg Robinson
[A 8]
2005–2008 42 5 37 0.119 2 25 0.074 0 0 0 0
30 Doug Marrone 2009–2012 50 25 25 0.500 11 17 0.393 2 0 1 0
31 Scott Shafer 2013–2015 37 14 23 0.378 7 17 0.292 1 0 0 0
32 Dino Babers 2016–2023 96 41 55 0.427 20 45 0.308 1 1 0 0
33 Fran Brown 2024–present 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Notes

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  1. ^ Although the first Rose Bowl Game was played in 1902, it has been continuously played since the 1916 game, and is recognized as the oldest bowl game by the NCAA. "—" indicates any season prior to 1916 when postseason games were not played.[2]
  2. ^ A running total of the number of head coaches, with coaches who served separate tenures being counted only once. Interim head coaches are represented with "Int" and are not counted in the running total. "—" indicates the team played but either without a coach or no coach is on record. "X" indicates an interim year without play.
  3. ^ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[3]
  4. ^ When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss.[4]
  5. ^ Statistics correct as of the end of the 2023 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
  6. ^ Syracuse did not have a head coach for the 1889 and 1893 seasons.[5]
  7. ^ Syracuse did not field a team for the 1943 season.
  8. ^ Due to NCAA sanctions, Syracuse had all wins from the 2005 and 2006 seasons vacated, one from 2005 and four from 2006. Originally, Syracuse was 1–10 (0–8 Big East) in 2005 and 4–8 (1–7 Big East) in 2006.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Fran Brown - Football Coach". Syracuse University Athletics. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2011). Bowl/All-Star Game Records (PDF). Indianapolis, Indiana: NCAA. pp. 5–10. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
  3. ^ Whiteside, Kelly (August 25, 2006). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today. McLean, Virginia. Archived from the original on September 6, 2010. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
  4. ^ Finder, Chuck (September 6, 1987). "Big plays help Paterno to 200th". The New York Times. New York City. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
  5. ^ "All-Time Syracuse Football Coaching Staffs". Syracuse University Athletics. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
  6. ^ Mink, Nate (March 7, 2015). "NCAA report: Syracuse football placed on 5-year probation, self-vacates 11 wins". Syracuse Post-Standard. Retrieved January 28, 2023.