List of Notre Dame Fighting Irish head football coaches

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program is the college football team of the University of Notre Dame, located in South Bend, Indiana. The team competes as an Independent at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Notre Dame has produced more All-Americans than any other Football Bowl Subdivision school. Additionally, seven Fighting Irish football players have won the Heisman Trophy. Notre Dame is one of only two Catholic universities that field a team in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the other being Boston College, and one of a handful of programs independent of a football conference. The team plays its home games on Notre Dame's campus at Notre Dame Stadium, also known as the "House that Rockne Built", which has a capacity of 80,795. The current head coach is Brian Kelly.

Key
# Number of coaches[1]
GC Games Coached
W Wins
L Loses
T Ties
W–L % Win–Loss percentage

Coaches
Tenure Coach Years Record Pct. National Titles (outright & shared)[2]
1887–89, 92–93None57–4–1.625
1894James L. Morrison13–1–1.700
1895H. G. Hadden13–1–0.750
1896–98Frank E. Hering312–6–1.658
1899James McWeeney16–3–1.650
1900–01Pat O'Dea214–4–2.750
1902–03James F. Faragher214–2–2.843
1904Red Salmon15–3–0.625
1905Henry J. McGlew15–4–0.556
1906–07Thomas A. Barry212–1–1.893
1908Victor M. Place18–1–0.889
1909–10Frank Longman211–1–2.857
1911–12John L. Marks213–0–2.933
1913–17Jesse Harper534–5–1.863
1918–30Knute Rockne13105–12–5.8811924, 1929, 1930
1931–33Hunk Anderson316–9–2.630
1934–40Elmer Layden747–13–3.770
1941–43, 46–53Frank Leahy1187–11–9.8551943, 1946, 1947, 1949
1944Edward McKeever18–2–0.800
1945, 63Hugh Devore29–9–1.500
1954–58Terry Brennan532–18–0.640
1959–62Joe Kuharich417–23–0.425
1964–74Ara Parseghian1195–17–4.8361966, 1973
1975–80Dan Devine653–16–1.7641977
1981–85Gerry Faust530–26–1.535
1986–96Lou Holtz11100–30–2.7651988
1997–2001Bob Davie535–25.583
2001*George O'Leary00–0.000
2002–2004Tyrone Willingham321–15.583
2004**Kent Baer10–1.000
2005–2009Charlie Weis535–27.565
2010–presentBrian Kelly11100–37.730
Totals 31 coaches 126 seasons 909–324–42 .729
* George O'Leary did not coach a single practice or game, being fired five days after being hired; he had misrepresented his academic credentials.
** Kent Baer served as interim head coach for one game at the 2004 Insight Bowl, after Tyrone Willingham was fired.

References
  1. A running total of the number of coaches of the Fighting Irish.
  2. "2016 Media Guide Notre Dame Football" (PDF). University of Notre Dame. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
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