List of Baylor Bears head football coaches

The Baylor Bears football program is a college football team that represents Baylor University in the Big 12 Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The team has had 25 head coaches since it started playing organized football in 1899. Baylor was a charter member of the Southwest Conference (SWC), joining in 1915.[1] They later became a charter member of the Big 12 in 1996 when the SWC disbanded. After playing without a nickname for 15 years, the school chose Bears as the team nickname in 1914.[2] There were three seasons where Baylor did not field a team. In 1906, the university banned football due to the violent nature of the sport. However, student protests persuaded school officials to reinstate it the next year.[3] In 1943 and 1944, the school canceled the football program due to World War II. The Bears have played in 1,099 games during their 108 seasons. In those seasons, seven coaches have led Baylor to postseason bowl games: Bob Woodruff, George Sauer, Sam Boyd, John D. Bridgers, Grant Teaff, Chuck Reedy, and Art Briles. Five coaches have won conference championships with the Bears: Charles P. Mosley, Frank Bridges, Teaff, Reedy and Briles.

Ralph Glaze, the ninth coach of the Bears

Teaff is the all-time leader in years coached (21), games coached (239), and wins (128). R. H. Hamilton has the highest winning percentage of any Baylor coach, with a 5–1–1 record (.786) during his two-year tenure. Bill Beall is, in terms of winning percentage, the worst coach the Bears have had, winning only 3 of his 31 games (.097). Of the 25 Baylor coaches, 2 have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: Teaff and Morley Jennings. Teaff is also the only coach to have received any coach of the year accolades, winning two national coach of the year award in 1974 and the conference coach of the year award twice. The current coach is Matt Rhule, who was hired on December 6, 2016.

Key

Coaches
Statistics correct as of the end of the 2019–20 college football season.
# Name Term GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL CCs Awards
1 R. H. Hamilton 1899–1900 7 5 1 1 .786 — — — — — — — —
2 W. J. Ritchie 1901 8 5 3 0 .625 — — — — — — — —
3 J. C. Ewing 1902 9 3 4 2 .444 — — — — — — — —
4 R. N. Watts 1903 8 4 3 1 .563 — — — — — — — —
5 Sol Metzger 1904 8 2 5 1 .313 — — — — — — — —
6 Archie Webb 1905 7 1 6 0 .143 — — — — — — — —
7 Luther Burleson 1907 8 4 3 1 .563 — — — — — — — —
8 E. J. Mills 1908–1909 16 8 8 0 .500 — — — — — — — —
9 Ralph Glaze 1910–1912 25 12 10 3 .540 — — — — — — — —
10 Norman Paine 1913 10 3 4 3 .450 — — — — — — — —
11 Charles P. Mosley 1914–1919 52 30 18 4 .615 8 7 1 .531 — — 1 —
12 Frank Bridges 1920–1925 59 35 18 6 .644 13 8 6 .593 — — 2 —
13 Morley Jennings†[6] 1926–1940 149 83 60 6 .577 40 50 7 .448 — — — —
14 Frank Kimbrough 1941–1942, 1945–1946[A 4] 41 15 23 3 .402 6 16 2 .292 — — — —
15 Bob Woodruff 1947–1949 31 19 10 2 .645 8 9 1 .472 1 0 — —
16 George Sauer† 1950–1955 62 38 21 3 .637 19 14 3 .569 0 2 — —
17 Sam Boyd 1956–1958 31 15 15 1 .500 5 12 1 .306 1 0 — —
18 John D. Bridgers 1959–1968 103 49 53 1 .481 31 37 1 .457 2 1 — —
19 Bill Beall 1969–1971 31 3 28 0 .097 1 20 0 .048 — — — —
20 Grant Teaff†[8] 1972–1992 239 128 105 6 .548 83 74 4 .528 4 4 2 AFCA Coach of the Year (1974)
Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (1974)
SWC Coach of the Year (1974, 1980)
21 Chuck Reedy 1993–1996 55 23 22 0 .511 13 16 0 .448 0 1 1 —
22 Dave Roberts 1997–1998 22 4 18 — .182 2 17 — .125 — — — —
23 Kevin Steele 1999–2002 45 8 36 — .200 1 31 — .031 — — — —
24 Guy Morriss 2003–2007 58 18 40 — .310 7 33 — .175 — — — —
25 Art Briles 2008–2015 102 65 37 — .637 39 30 — .565 3 3 2[A 5] Big 12 Coach of the Year (2013)
AP College Football Coach of the Year (2013)
26 Jim Grobe ‡ 2016 12 6 6 — .500 3 6 — .333 — — — —
27 Matt Rhule 2017–2019 37 19 18 0 .514 13 14 0 .481 1 0 0 Big 12 Coach of the Year (2019)
28 Dave Aranda 2020– 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 –

Notes
  1. Baylor did not join a conference until 1915.
  2. Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[4]
  3. When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss.[5]
  4. Baylor did not field a team in 1943 and 1944 due to World War II.[7]
  5. In 2014, Baylor was co-Big 12 champions with TCU.[9]

References
General
  • "2009 Baylor Football Media Almanac" (PDF). BaylorBears.com. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-03-04. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
  • "Baylor Coaching Records". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on 2009-11-20. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
Specific
  1. "Southwest Athletic Conference: An Inventory of Its Records, 1914–1996 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library". Texas Archival Resources Online. Archived from the original on 2009-12-08. Retrieved 2009-12-08.
  2. Wolff Jr., Henry (2002-09-13). "There is more to Baylor bears than football". Victoria Advocate. Victoria, Texas. p. 5A. Retrieved 2010-03-05.
  3. Rielly, Edward (2009). Football: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. University of Nebraska Press. p. 298. ISBN 9780803290129. Retrieved 2010-03-05.
  4. Whiteside, Kelly (2006-08-25). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today. Archived from the original on 2009-11-24. Retrieved 2009-09-25.
  5. Finder, Chuck (1987-09-06). "Big plays help Paterno to 200th". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2009-10-22. Retrieved 2009-10-22.
  6. "Morley "Jopsey" Jennings". College Football Hall of Fame. Football Foundation. Retrieved 2010-03-05.
  7. "Baylor Planning Return to Football". The Milwaukee Journal. The Associated Press. 1945-04-05. p. 2. Retrieved 2010-03-05.
  8. "Grant Teaff". College Football Hall of Fame. Football Foundation. Retrieved 2010-03-05.
  9. Staples, Andy (2014-12-07). "Big 12 crowns two champions but can't pick one top playoff contender". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on 2017-09-29. Retrieved 2019-09-06.

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