# Montana State–Northern Lights football

The Montana State–Northern Lights football team represents Montana State University–Northern in college football in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The Lights are members of the Frontier Conference, fielding its team in the Frontier Conference since 1999. The Lights play their home games at Tilleman Field in Havre, Montana.
The school's head coach is Jerome Souers, who took over the position for the 2022 season.

## Conference affiliations

* Frontier Conference (1999–present)

## List of head coaches
### Key

Key to symbols in coaches list :
| General | General | Overall | Overall | Conference | Conference | Postseason | Postseason |
| No. | Order of coaches | 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 | C% | Conference winning percentage | | |
| † | Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame | O% | Overall winning percentage | | | | |

### Coaches since 1999

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records and conference records :
| No. | Name | Season(s) | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% |
| 1 | Walt Currie | 1999–2003 | 52 | 10 | 42 | 0 | 0.192 | 7 | 33 | 0 | 0.175 |
| 2 | Mark Samson | 2004–2013 | 104 | 45 | 59 | 0 | 0.433 | 40 | 56 | 0 | 0.417 |
| 3 | Jake Eldridge | 2014, 2017 | 14 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0.214 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0.154 |
| 4 | Aaron Christensen | 2015–2017 | 32 | 2 | 27 | 0 | 0.069 | 1 | 26 | 0 | 0.037 |
| 5 | Andrew Rolin | 2018–2021 | 37 | 3 | 34 | 0 | 0.081 | 1 | 33 | 0 | 0.029 |
| 6 | Jerome Souers | 2022–present | 20 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 0.050 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 0.050 |

## Year-by-year results since 1999

| National champions | Conference champions | Bowl game berth | Playoff berth |
| Season | Year | Head coach | Association | Division | Conference | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Postseason | Final ranking |
| Season | Year | Head coach | Association | Division | Conference | Overall | Overall | Overall | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | | | Postseason | Final ranking |
| Season | Year | Head coach | Association | Division | Conference | Win | Loss | Tie | Finish | Win | Loss | Tie | Postseason | Final ranking |
| Montana State–Northern Lights |||||||||||||||
| 1999 | 1999 | Walt Currie | NAIA | — | Frontier | 3 | 8 | 0 | T–4th | 1 | 7 | 0 | — | — |
| 2000 | 2000 | Walt Currie | NAIA | — | Frontier | 2 | 8 | 0 | 4th | 2 | 6 | 0 | — | — |
| 2001 | 2001 | Walt Currie | NAIA | — | Frontier | 3 | 8 | 0 | T–3rd | 2 | 6 | 0 | — | — |
| 2002 | 2002 | Walt Currie | NAIA | — | Frontier | 1 | 9 | 0 | 5th | 1 | 7 | 0 | — | — |
| 2003 | 2003 | Walt Currie | NAIA | — | Frontier | 1 | 9 | 0 | 5th | 1 | 7 | 0 | — | — |
| 2004 | 2004 | Mark Samson | NAIA | — | Frontier | 1 | 10 | 0 | T–4th | 1 | 7 | 0 | — | — |
| 2005 | 2005 | Mark Samson | NAIA | — | Frontier | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3rd | 3 | 5 | 0 | — | — |
| 2006 | 2006 | Mark Samson | NAIA | — | Frontier | 9 | 2 | 0 | 2nd | 8 | 2 | 0 | NAIA First Round | 11 |
| 2007 | 2007 | Mark Samson | NAIA | — | Frontier | 6 | 5 | 0 | T–3rd | 5 | 5 | 0 | — | — |
| 2008 | 2008 | Mark Samson | NAIA | — | Frontier | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2nd | 7 | 3 | 0 | — | 21 |
| 2009 | 2009 | Mark Samson | NAIA | — | Frontier | 2 | 9 | 0 | T–5th | 1 | 9 | 0 | — | — |
| 2010 | 2010 | Mark Samson | NAIA | — | Frontier | 3 | 7 | 0 | 5th | 3 | 7 | 0 | — | — |
| 2011 | 2011 | Mark Samson | NAIA | — | Frontier | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3rd | 5 | 5 | 0 | — | — |
| 2012 | 2012 | Mark Samson | NAIA | — | Frontier | 3 | 7 | 0 | 7th | 3 | 7 | 0 | — | — |
| 2013 | 2013 | Mark Samson | NAIA | — | Frontier | 4 | 6 | 0 | T–5th | 4 | 6 | 0 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2014 | Jake Eldridge | NAIA | — | Frontier | 3 | 8 | 0 | 7th | 2 | 8 | 0 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2015 | Aaron Christensen | NAIA | — | Frontier | 0 | 11 | 0 | 8th | 0 | 10 | 0 | — | — |
| 2016 | 2016 | Aaron Christensen | NAIA | — | Frontier | 1 | 9 | 0 | 8th | 1 | 9 | 0 | — | — |
| 2017 | 2017 | Aaron Christensen / Jake Eldridge (interim, last 3 games) | NAIA | — | Frontier | 1 | 10 | 0 | 8th | 0 | 10 | 0 | — | — |
| 2018 | 2018 | Andrew Rolin | NAIA | — | Frontier | 1 | 10 | 0 | 8th | 0 | 10 | 0 | — | — |
| 2019 | 2019 | Andrew Rolin | NAIA | — | Frontier | 1 | 10 | 0 | 8th | 0 | 10 | 0 | — | — |
| 2020 | 2020 | Andrew Rolin | NAIA | — | Frontier | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5th | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | — |
| 2021 | 2021 | Andrew Rolin | NAIA | — | Frontier | 1 | 10 | 0 | 8th | 1 | 9 | 0 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2022 | Jerome Souers | NAIA | — | Frontier | 0 | 10 | 0 | 8th | 0 | 10 | 0 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2023 | Jerome Souers | NAIA | — | Frontier | 1 | 9 | 0 | 8th | 0 | 8 | 0 | — | — |