List of Florida Atlantic Owls head football coaches

The Florida Atlantic Owls college football team represents Florida Atlantic University in the East Division of Conference USA (CUSA). The Owls compete as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 3 head coaches since it began play during the 2001 season.

Lane Kiffin the former head coach of the Owls.

The team has played more than 190 games over 15 seasons. In that time, only one Head Coach has led the Owls to postseason bowl games: Howard Schnellenberger. FAU has a 2–0 record in two bowl games in which they have competed: the 2007 New Orleans Bowl[1] and the 2008 Motor City Bowl.[1] The Owls have been Co-Conference Champions once: in 2007 by Schellenberger, during the Owl's time in the Sun Belt Conference.[2]

Schellenberger spent the most seasons (11) as the Owl's head coach and took the program to its only bowl games. The highest winning percentage by any coach is by Brian Wright, who was an interim coach during the 2013 season, who finished the season 4–0, following the resignation of former Head Coach Carl Pelini.

The lowest winning percentage for any coach is Charlie Partridge, who has gone 3–9 (.250) in each of his two seasons; 9–27 (.250) overall.

The current head coach of the Owls is Lane Kiffin, who was hired in December 2016.[3] Kiffin was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Alabama from 2014 to 2016 and was previously the head coach of the Oakland Raiders from 2008 to 2009.

Head coaches

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]

List of head coaches
List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards[A 5]
No. Name Term GC OW OL O% CW CL C% PW PL DC
[A 6]		 CC NC
1 Howard Schnellenberger 2001–2011 132 58 74 0.439 22 23 0.488 2 0 — 1 0
2 Carl Pelini 2012–2013 20 5 15 0.250 3 10 0.230 0 0 0 0 0
3 Brian Wright 2013 4 4 0 1.000 3 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 0
4 Charlie Partridge 2014–2016 36 9 27 0.250 7 17 0.292 0 0 0 0 0
5 Lane Kiffin 2017-2019 39 26 13 0.667 18 6 10.750 1 0 2 2 0

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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 2016 college football season.
  6. Florida Atlantic has competed as a member of the East Division of the CUSA.

References
  1. "Florida Atlantic Owl history". Florida Atlantic University. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
  2. "2007 Florida Atlantic Owls Stats". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
  3. Low, Chris; McMurphy, Brett (December 12, 2016). "Alabama OC Lane Kiffin to be next head coach of Florida Atlantic". ESPN. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  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. "Florida Atlantic Owl coaches". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
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