# Mary Hardin–Baylor Crusaders football

The Mary Hardin–Baylor Crusaders football team represents the University of Mary Hardin–Baylor in college football in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the NCAA Division III level. The Crusaders are members of the American Southwest Conference (ASC), fielding its team in the ASC since 1998. The Crusaders play their home games at Crusader Stadium in Belton, Texas.
Their head coach is Larry Harmon, who took over the position for the 2022 season after serving the previous twenty as the team's defensive coordinator under Pete Fredenburg.
Mary Hardin–Baylor has won three NCAA Division III football championships: 2016, 2018, and 2021. The 2016 championship was vacated and 29 wins were vacated due to ineligible players.

## Conference affiliations

* American Southwest Conference (1998–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

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records and conference records :
| No. | Name | Season(s) | GC | OW | OL | O% | CW | CL | C% |
| 1 | Pete Fredenburg | 1998–2021 | 270 | 231 | 39 | 0.856 | 154 | 16 | 0.906 |
| 2 | Larry Harmon | 2022–present | 25 | 18 | 7 | 0.720 | 13 | 1 | 0.929 |

## Year-by-year results

| National champions | Conference champions | Bowl game berth | Playoff berth |
| Season | Year | Head coach | Association | Division | Conference | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Postseason | Final ranking |
| Season | Year | Head coach | Association | Division | Conference | Overall | Overall | Conference | Conference | Conference | | | Postseason | Final ranking |
| Season | Year | Head coach | Association | Division | Conference | Win | Loss | Finish | Win | Loss | Postseason | Final ranking |
| Mary Hardin–Baylor Crusaders |||||||||||||
| 1998 | 1998 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 3 | 7 | T–5th | 2 | 5 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1999 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 4 | 6 | T–4th | 3 | 4 | — | — |
| 2000 | 2000 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 9 | 1 | 2nd | 8 | 1 | — | — |
| 2001 | 2001 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 8 | 2 | 2nd | 7 | 1 | L NCAA Division III First Round | — |
| 2002 | 2002 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 10 | 1 | 1st | 9 | 0 | L NCAA Division III First Round | — |
| 2003 | 2003 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 9 | 1 | T–1st | 8 | 1 | — | 15 |
| 2004 | 2004 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 13 | 2 | 2nd | 8 | 1 | L NCAA Division III Championship | 2 |
| 2005 | 2005 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 9 | 2 | 1st | 7 | 1 | L NCAA Division III Second Round | 11 |
| 2006 | 2006 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 10 | 3 | 1st | 8 | 0 | L NCAA Division III Quarterfinal | 8 |
| 2007 | 2007 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 12 | 2 | 1st | 8 | 0 | L NCAA Division III Semifinal | 3 |
| 2008 | 2008 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 12 | 2 | 1st | 8 | 0 | L NCAA Division III Semifinal | 3 |
| 2009 | 2009 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 10 | 2 | T–1st | 7 | 1 | L NCAA Division III Second Round | 7 |
| 2010 | 2010 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 12 | 1 | 1st | 8 | 0 | L NCAA Division III Quarterfinal | 5 |
| 2011 | 2011 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 12 | 1 | 1st | 8 | 0 | L NCAA Division III Quarterfinal | 5 |
| 2012 | 2012 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 13 | 1 | 1st | 7 | 0 | L NCAA Division III Semifinal | 5 |
| 2013 | 2013 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 13 | 1 | 1st | 6 | 0 | L NCAA Division III Semifinal | 2 |
| 2014 | 2014 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 11 | 1 | 1st | 5 | 0 | L NCAA Division III Second Round | 6 |
| 2015 | 2015 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 11 | 2 | T–1st | 4 | 1 | L NCAA Division III Quarterfinal | 7 |
| 2016 | 2016 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 2 | 0 | 1st | 1 | 0 | W (vacated) NCAA Division III Championship | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 1 | 0 | 1st | 1 | 0 | L (vacated) NCAA Division III Championship | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 15 | 0 | 1st | 9 | 0 | W NCAA Division III Championship | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 12 | 1 | 1st | 9 | 0 | L NCAA Division III Quarterfinal | 6 |
| 2020–21 | 2019 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 5 | 0 | 1st (East) | 4 | 0 | — | — |
| 2021 | 2021 | Pete Fredenburg | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 15 | 0 | 1st | 9 | 0 | W NCAA Division III Championship | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022 | Larry Harmon | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 12 | 2 | 1st | 8 | 0 | L NCAA Division III Semifinal | 3 |
| 2023 | 2023 | Larry Harmon | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 6 | 4 | 2nd | 5 | 1 | — | — |
| 2024 | 2024 | Larry Harmon | NCAA | Division III | ASC | | | | | | — | — |

## Crusader Stadium

Crusader Stadium is a football stadium in Belton, Texas, with a seating capacity of 9,118. It is home to the University of Mary Hardin–Baylor Crusaders football team. The facility opened in 2013 and replaced Tiger Field.
It cost $20 million to build and was designed by Turner Construction who designed the new Yankee Stadium and Target Field. The stadium's construction was a part of the university's $100 million campus improvements which included a new nursing school, banquet hall, and arts complex.
In 2021, the McLane Family gifted funds to replace the stadium's video board with a 1,000 square-foot screen.