Dan Devine in a hat and coaches shirt.
Dan Devine served as head coach of the Sun Devils from 1955 to 1957 and has the highest winning percentage in program history.

The Arizona State Sun Devils college football team represents Arizona State University in the Pacific 12 Conference (Pac-12). The Sun Devils compete as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 24 head coaches and two interim head coaches since it began play during the 1897 season. Since November 2022, Kenny Dillingham has served as head coach at Arizona State.[1]

Ten coaches have led Arizona State in postseason bowl games: Dixie Howell, Ed Doherty, Frank Kush, Darryl Rogers, John Cooper, Bruce Snyder, Dirk Koetter, Dennis Erickson, Todd Graham, and Herm Edwards. Seven of those coaches also won conference championships: Ted Shipkey, Clyde B. Smith, and Dan Devine each captured one and Kush two as a member of the Border Conference; Kush captured seven as a member of the Western Athletic Conference; and Cooper and Snyder each captured one as a member of the Pacific-10.

Kush is the leader in seasons coached and games won, with 176 victories during his 22 years with the program. Devine has the highest winning percentage at 0.887. George E. Cooper has the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with 0.000. Of the 24 different head coaches who have led the Sun Devils, Howell, Devine, Kush, Cooper, and Erickson have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Key

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 Season(s)
[A 6] 		GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL PT CC NC Awards
1 Frederick M. Irish 1897
1899–1900
1902–1906 		20 12 8 0 0.600 — — — — — — — — — —
2 George Schaeffer 1914–1916 15 7 8 0 0.467 — — — — — — — — — —
3 George E. Cooper 1919 2 0 2 0 .000 — — — — — — — — — —
4 Ernest C. Wills 1922 4 0 3 1 0.125 — — — — — — — — — —
5 Aaron McCreary 1923–1929 46 25 17 4 0.587 — — — — — — — — — —
6 Ted Shipkey 1930–1932 25 13 10 2 0.560 5 3 1 0.611 — — — 1 — —
7 Rudy Lavik 1933–1937 42 13 26 3 0.345 8 17 2 0.333 — — — 0 — —
8 Dixie Howell† 1938–1941 42 23 15 4 0.595 11 11 2 0.500 0 1 1 0 — —
9 Hilman Walker 1942 10 2 8 0 0.200 2 5 0 0.286 0 0 0 0 — —
10 Steve Coutchie 1946 11 2 7 2 0.273 1 4 1 0.250 0 0 0 0 — —
11 Ed Doherty 1947–1950 42 25 17 0 0.595 14 8 0 0.636 0 2 0 0 — —
12 Larry Siemering 1951 10 6 3 1 0.650 4 1 0 0.800 0 0 0 0 — —
13 Clyde B. Smith 1952–1954 29 15 13 1 0.534 8 4 0 0.667 0 0 0 1 — —
14 Dan Devine† 1955–1957 31 27 3 1 0.887 11 2 0 0.846 0 0 0 1 — —
15 Frank Kush† 1958–1979 231 176 54 1 0.764 92 25 0 0.786 6 1 0 9 — AFCA Coach of the Year (1975)
Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award (1975)
Int. Bob Owens 1979 7 3 4 0 0.429 1 3 0 0.250 0 0 0 0 — —
16 Darryl Rogers 1980–1984 56 37 18 1 0.670 21 14 1 0.597 1 0 0 0 — —
17 John Cooper† 1985–1987 36 25 9 2 0.722 13 6 2 0.667 2 1 0 1 — Sporting News College Football COY (1986)
18 Larry Marmie 1988–1991 44 22 21 1 0.511 12 16 1 0.431 0 0 0 0 — —
19 Bruce Snyder 1992–2000 103 58 45 0 0.563 40 32 0 0.556 1 3 0 1 — AFCA Coach of the Year (1996)
Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (1996)
George Munger Award (1996)
Paul "Bear" Bryant Award (1996)
Sporting News College Football COY (1996)
Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award (1996)
20 Dirk Koetter 2001–2006 74 40 34 — 0.541 21 28 — 0.429 2 2 — 0 — —
21 Dennis Erickson† 2007–2011 62 31 31 — 0.500 21 24 — 0.467 0 2 — 1 — —
22 Todd Graham 2012–2017 78 46 32 — 0.590 31 23 — 0.574 2 3 — 0 — —
23 Herm Edwards 2018–2022 46 26 20 — 0.565 17 14 — 0.548 1 2 — 0 — —
Int. Shaun Aguano 2022 9 2 7 — 0.222 2 7 — 0.222 0 0 — 0 — —
24 Kenny Dillingham 2023–present 12 3 9 — 0.250 2 7 — 0.222 0 0 — 0 — —

Notes

  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 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
  6. ^ Arizona State did not field teams for the 1898, 1901, 1907–1913, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, and 1943–1945 seasons.

References

  1. ^ Thamel, Pete (November 26, 2022). "Arizona State hires Oregon's Kenny Dillingham as head coach". ESPN.com. Retrieved January 22, 2023.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2011). Bowl/All-Star Game Records (PDF). Indianapolis, Indiana: NCAA. pp. 5–10. Archived from the original on August 22, 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 November 24, 2009. 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 October 22, 2009. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
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