# List of Florida Atlantic Owls head football coaches

The Florida Atlantic Owls football team represents Florida Atlantic University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level as a member of the American Athletic Conference (AAC). The program has had seven head coaches, and three interim head coaches, since it began play during the 2001 season. The current head coach of the Owls is Zach Kittley, who was hired in December 2024.
Through the 2024 season, Florida Atlantic has played 289 games over 24 seasons. Four head coaches have led the Owls in postseason bowl games: Howard Schnellenberger, Lane Kiffin, Glenn Spencer, and Willie Taggart. Florida Atlantic has a 4–1 record in bowl games. The Owls have won three conference championships. Schellenberger's 2007 team shared the Sun Belt Conference titles. Kiffin's 2017 team and 2019 team won C-USA titles.
Schellenberger spent the most seasons (11) as the Owl's head coach and has the most wins (58) and most losses (74) in program history. Kiffin, who led the Florida Atlantic to a record of 27–13 from 2017 to 2019, has the highest winning percentage (.675) of any non-interim coach. The lowest winning percentage for any Florida Atlantic coach is Charlie Partridge, who compiled a record of 9–27 (.250) from 2014 to 2016.
Kiffin led the Owls to two bowl appearances, the first a 50–3 win over Arkon in the 2017 Boca Raton Bowl. Kiffin's 2019 team was invited to the 2019 Boca Raton Bowl. Led by interim head coach Glenn Spencer, the Owls won a 52–28 win over SMU. Kiffin left to become the head coach of Ole Miss before the 2019 bowl game.

## 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 | | | | |

## List of head coaches

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards :
| No. | Name | Term | GC | OW | OL | O% | CW | CL | C% | PW | PL | DC | 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 |
| Int. | Brian Wright | 2013 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1.000 | 3 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Charlie Partridge | 2014–2016 | 36 | 9 | 27 | 0.250 | 7 | 17 | 0.292 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Lane Kiffin | 2017–2019 | 40 | 27 | 13 | 0.675 | 18 | 6 | 0.750 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Int. | Glenn Spencer | 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Willie Taggart | 2020–2022 | 33 | 15 | 18 | 0.455 | 11 | 11 | 0.500 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Tom Herman | 2023–2024 | 22 | 6 | 16 | 0.273 | 3 | 9 | 0.250 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Int. | Chad Lunsford | 2024 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Zach Kittley | 2025–present | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |