# Misericordia Cougars football

The Misericordia Cougars football team represents Misericordia University in college football at the NCAA Division III level. The Cougars are members of the Middle Atlantic Conferences (MAC), fielding its team in the MAC since 2012. The Cougars play their home games at the Mangelsdorf Field in Dallas, Pennsylvania.
Their head coach is John Davis, who took over the position for the 2021 season.

## Conference affiliations

* Middle Atlantic Conferences (2012–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, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards :
| No. | Name | Season(s) | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | PT | DC | CC | NC | Awards |
| 1 | Mark Ross | 2012–2020 | 81 | 18 | 63 | 0 | 0.222 | 17 | 53 | 0 | 0.243 | — | — | — | — | — | — | MAC Coach of the Year (2018) |
| 2 | John Davis | 2021–present | 19 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 0.316 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0.294 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |

## 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 | 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 |
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| 2012 | 2012 | Mark Ross | NCAA | Division III | MAC | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10th | 0 | 9 | 0 | — | — |
| 2013 | 2013 | Mark Ross | NCAA | Division III | MAC | 1 | 9 | 0 | 9th | 1 | 8 | 0 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2014 | Mark Ross | NCAA | Division III | MAC | 1 | 9 | 0 | 9th | 1 | 8 | 0 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2015 | Mark Ross | NCAA | Division III | MAC | 1 | 9 | 0 | 10th | 1 | 8 | 0 | — | — |
| 2016 | 2016 | Mark Ross | NCAA | Division III | MAC | 1 | 9 | 0 | 10th | 1 | 8 | 0 | — | — |
| 2017 | 2017 | Mark Ross | NCAA | Division III | MAC | 1 | 9 | 0 | 9th | 1 | 8 | 0 | — | — |
| 2018 | 2018 | Mark Ross | NCAA | Division III | MAC | 8 | 3 | 0 | T–2nd | 7 | 1 | 0 | — | — |
| 2019 | 2019 | Mark Ross | NCAA | Division III | MAC | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4th | 5 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| No team due to COVID-19 |||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2021 | John Davis | NCAA | Division III | MAC | 3 | 6 | 0 | 9th | 2 | 6 | 0 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2022 | John Davis | NCAA | Division III | MAC | 3 | 7 | 0 | T–8th | 3 | 6 | 0 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2023 | John Davis | NCAA | Division III | MAC | | | | | | | | — | — |