Eliah Drinkwitz, current head coach of the University of Missouri Tigers.
Eliah Drinkwitz, current head coach of the University of Missouri Tigers.

The Missouri Tigers football program is a college football team that represents the University of Missouri in the East Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The team has had 31 head coaches since it started playing organized football in 1890 with the nickname Tigers.[1] Missouri joined the Western Interstate University Football Association in December 1891, later winning the conference championship three years in a row. The conference disbanded after the 1897 season and Missouri remained independent until joining the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1907. After several changes, the conference eventually became the Big Eight Conference. The Tigers became a charter member of the Big 12 in 1996 when the Big Eight disbanded.[2] Missouri subsequently left the Big 12 following the 2011 season and joined as the 14th member of the SEC effective for the 2012 season.[3] The Tigers have played 1,180 games during their 119 seasons. In those seasons, seven coaches have led Missouri to postseason bowl games: Don Faurot, Chauncey Simpson, Dan Devine, Al Onofrio, Warren Powers, Larry Smith, and Gary Pinkel. Nine coaches have also won conference championships with the Tigers: Harry Orman Robinson, C. D. Bliss, Bill Roper, Chester Brewer, John F. Miller, Gwinn Henry, Faurot, Simpson and Devine.

Faurot is the all-time leader in games coached (190) and years coached (19). Gary Pinkel is the all-time leader in wins (119). Roper has the highest winning percentage of any coach, with a percentage of .938 during his one year. Of coaches who served more than one season, James Phelan leads with a .813 winning percentage. Frank Carideo is, in terms of winning percentage, the worst coach the Tigers have had (.111). Onofrio and Smith have both been awarded coach of the year honors in their conference by the Associated Press. Of the 31 Tigers coaches, six have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: Roper, Phelan, Faurot, Frank Broyles, Devine, and Pinkel. The current head coach is Eliah Drinkwitz.

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
dagger 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) GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL CC
[A 6] 		Awards
1 A. L. McRae 1890 3 2 1 0 .667 — — — — — — — —
2 Hal Reid 1891 4 3 1 0 .750 — — — — — — — —
3 E. H. Jones 1892 3 1 2 0 .333 1 2 0 0.333 — — — —
4 Harry Orman Robinson 1893–1894 14 8 6 0 .571 4 2 0 0.667 — — 2 —
5 C. D. Bliss 1895 8 7 1 0 .875 2 1 0 0.667 — — 1 —
6 Frank Patterson 1896 12 7 5 0 .583 0 3 0 .000 — — — —
7 Charles Young 1897 11 5 6 0 .455 0 2 0 .000 — — — —
8 Dave Fultz 1898–1899 17 10 6 1 .618 — — — — — — — —
9 Fred W. Murphy 1900–1901 18 6 10 2 .389 — — — — — — — —
10 Pat O'Dea 1902 8 5 3 0 .625 — — — — — — — —
11 John McLean 1903–1905 27 9 17 1 .352 — — — — — — — —
12 W. J. Monilaw 1906–1908 25 18 6 1 .740 4 4 0 0.500 — — — —
13 Bill Roper[7]dagger 1909 8 7 0 1 .938 4 0 1 0.900 — — 1 —
14 Bill Hollenback 1910 8 4 2 2 .625 2 1 1 0.625 — — — —
15 Chester Brewer 1911–1913 24 14 8 2 .625 6 5 2 0.538 — — 1 —
16 Henry Schulte 1914–1917 32 16 14 2 .531 10 9 2 0.524 — — — —
17 John F. Miller 1919 8 5 1 2 .750 4 0 1 0.900 — — 1 —
18 James Phelan[8]dagger 1920–1921 16 13 3 0 .813 9 3 0 0.750 — — — —
19 Thomas Kelley 1922 8 5 3 0 .625 4 3 0 0.571 — — — —
20 Gwinn Henry 1923–1931 77 40 28 9 .578 27 16 6 0.612 — — 3 —
21 Frank Carideo 1932–1934 27 2 23 2 .111 1 13 1 0.100 — — — —
22 Don Faurot[9]dagger 1935–1942, 1946–1956 190 101 79 10 .558 61 34 9 0.630 0 4 3 —
23 Chauncey Simpson 1943–1945 28 12 14 2 .464 10 3 2 0.733 0 1 1 —
24 Frank Broyles[10]dagger 1957 10 5 4 1 .550 3 3 0 0.500 — — — —
25 Dan Devine[11]dagger 1958–1970 137 93 37 7 .704 62 23 3 0.722 4 2 2 —
26 Al Onofrio 1971–1977 79 38 41 0 .481 21 28 0 0.429 1 1 — Big Eight AP Coach of the Year (1972)[12]
27 Warren Powers 1978–1984 82 46 33 3 .579 24 22 3 0.520 3 2 — —
28 Woody Widenhofer 1985–1988 44 12 31 1 .284 7 14 0 0.333 — — — —
29 Bob Stull 1989–1993 55 15 38 2 .291 8 27 0 0.229 — — — —
30 Larry Smith 1994–2000 80 33 46 1 .419 19 25 0 0.432 1 1 — Big 12 AP Coach of the Year (1997)[13]
31 Gary Pinkel[14]dagger 2001–2015 188 117 71 — .622 64 55 — 0.538 6 4 — National Coach of the Year (2007)
32 Barry Odom 2016–2019 50 25 25 — .500 13 19 — 0.406 0 2 — —
33 Eliah Drinkwitz 2020–Present 36 17 19 — 0.472 11 15 — 0.423 0 2 — —

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.[4]
  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.[5]
  4. ^ When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss.[6]
  5. ^ Statistics correct as of the end of the 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
  6. ^ Missouri was not in an athletic conference from 1890 through 1891 and 1898 through 1907.

References

General
  • "Year-by-Year Results" (PDF). University of Missouri Athletics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-11-12. Retrieved 2010-02-04.
  • "Missouri Coaching Records". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on 2010-02-16. Retrieved 2010-02-04.
  • "Historical Standings for Big 12 members – prior to 1996–97" (PDF). Big 12 Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2010-02-26.
  • Wernig, Darin (2009). Hear the Roar!: The Resurgence of Mizzou Football. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1865-0. Retrieved 2010-03-24.
Specific
  1. ^ "Mascot & Football Traditions". MUTigers.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2010-03-04.
  2. ^ "Missouri Historical Date". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on 2010-01-03. Retrieved 2010-03-04.
  3. ^ "SEC accepts Missouri for 2012–13". ESPN.com. The Associated Press. 2011-11-07. Retrieved 2012-08-05.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Bill Roper at the College Football Hall of Fame
  8. ^ Jim Phelan at the College Football Hall of Fame
  9. ^ Don Faurot at the College Football Hall of Fame
  10. ^ Frank Broyles at the College Football Hall of Fame
  11. ^ Dan Devine at the College Football Hall of Fame
  12. ^ "Former Missouri football coach Onofrio dies". USA Today. The Associated Press. 2004-11-05. Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2010-03-01. Onofrio, the Associated Press Big Eight coach of the year in 1972...
  13. ^ "Missouri Cans Football Coach". CBS News. The Associated Press. 2000-11-19. Archived from the original on 2010-10-31. Retrieved 2010-03-01. In 1997, after 13 consecutive losing seasons at Missouri, Smith guided the Tigers to a 7–5 record and the Holiday Bowl, and was honored as Big 12 coach of the year by The Associated Press.
  14. ^ "Gary Pinkel Named to Hall of Fame Class of 2022".

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