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List of Florida Gators head football coaches


This list of Florida Gators head football coaches includes those coaches who have led the Florida Gators football team that represents the University of Florida in the sport of American football.  The Florida Gators currently compete in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).  Twenty-six men have served as the Gators' head coach, including four who served as interim head coach, since the Gators began play in the fall of 1906.[1]  In December 2017, Dan Mullen was hired as the Gators' latest head coach.
The Gators have fielded a team every season since 1906, with the exception of 1943 wi, and have played more than 1,000 games during 110 seasons.[1]  During that time, fourteen  coaches have led the Gators in postseason bowl games: George E. Pyle, Bob Woodruff, Ray Graves, Doug Dickey, Charley Pell, Galen Hall, Gary Darnell, Steve Spurrier, Ron Zook, Charlie Strong, Urban Meyer, Will Muschamp, DJ Durkin and Jim McElwain[1]  Two Gators coaches have also won SEC championships: Spurrier won six, and Meyer won two.[1]  During their tenures, Spurrier won one and Meyer won two national championships with the Gators.[1][2]
Spurrier is the leader in seasons coached, games won and winning percentage, with 122 victories and a winning percentage of .817 during his twelve years leading the program.[1] Raymond Wolf has the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with .359.[1]  Of the twenty-seven head coaches who have led the Gators, Charlie Bachman, Graves, Dickey, and Spurrier have been inducted as head coaches into the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia.[3][4][5]
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See also

Florida Gators
History of the University of Florida
List of College Football Hall of Fame inductees (coaches)
List of Florida Gators football players in the NFL
List of Florida Gators football seasons
List of University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame members
University Athletic Association

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 – Win-loss records of Florida Gators head coaches at College Football Data Warehouse