List of Fresno State Bulldogs head football coaches

The Fresno State Bulldogs college football team represent California State University, Fresno in the Mountain West Conference. The Bulldogs competed in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) College Division in the years 1921–1968. In 1969, the team moved to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I.

The program has had 18 different head coaches in its 96 seasons of existence (through 2016), including three who had multiple tenures as coach.

Coaches

No.	Coach	Tenure	Seasons	Win	Loss	Tie	Pct.	Bowls
1	Arthur W. Jones	1921–1928	8	36	26	7	.572	0
2	Stanley Borleske	1929–1932	4	16	17	2	.486	0
3	Leo Harris	1933–1935	3	18	9	1	.661	0
4	James Bradshaw	1936–1942	8	59	18	5	.750	1
5	Earl Wight	1944	1	0	6	0	.000	0
6	Alvin Pierson	1945	2	7	14	2	.348	1
7	James Bradshaw (totals included on line 4)	1946
8	Ken Gleason	1947–1948	2	6	12	3	.357	0
9	Alvin Pierson (totals included on line 6)	1949
10	Duke Jacobs	1950–1951	2	7	11	12	.395	0
11	Clark Van Galder	1952–1958	7	46	22	2	.671	0
12	Cecil Coleman	1959–1963	5	37	13	0	.740	1
13	Phil Krueger	1964–1965	2	10	10	0	.500	0
14	Darryl Rogers	1966–1972	7	43	32	1	.573	2
15	J. R. Boone	1973–1975	3	10	24	0	.294	0
16	Jim Sweeney (totals included on line 18)	1976–1977
17	Bob Padilla	1978–1979	2	7	15	0	.318	1
18	Jim Sweeney	1980–1996	19	143	75	3	.654	7
19	Pat Hill	1997–2011	15	112	80	0	.583	11
20	Tim DeRuyter	2012–2016	5	30	30	0	.500	3
21	Eric Kiesau	2016	1	0	4	0	.000	0
22	Jeff Tedford	2017–2019	3	26	14	0	.650	2
23	Ryan Grubb	2019	1	0	0	0	.000	0
	Totals	1921–2019	99	613	431	28	.585	25

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