List of Fresno State Bulldogs head football coaches

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The program has had 20 different head coaches in its 102 seasons of existence (through 2023), including four who had multiple tenures as head coach.

Coaches

No.	Coach	Tenure	Seasons	Win	Loss	Tie	Pct.	Bowls
1	Arthur W. Jones	1921–1928	8	36	26	7	.572	0
2	Stanley Borleske	1929–1932	4	16	17	2	.486	0
3	Leo Harris	1933–1935	3	18	9	1	.661	0
4	James Bradshaw	1936–1942	8	59	18	5	.750	1
5	Earl Wight	1944	1	0	6	0	.000	0
6	Alvin Pierson	1945	2	7	14	2	.348	1
7	James Bradshaw (totals included on line 4)	1946
8	Ken Gleason	1947–1948	2	6	12	3	.357	0
9	Alvin Pierson (totals included on line 6)	1949
10	Duke Jacobs	1950–1951	2	7	11	12	.395	0
11	Clark Van Galder	1952–1958	7	46	22	2	.671	0
12	Cecil Coleman	1959–1963	5	37	13	0	.740	1
13	Phil Krueger	1964–1965	2	10	10	0	.500	0
14	Darryl Rogers	1966–1972	7	43	32	1	.573	2
15	J. R. Boone	1973–1975	3	10	24	0	.294	0
16	Jim Sweeney (totals included on line 18)	1976–1977
17	Bob Padilla	1978–1979	2	7	15	0	.318	1
18	Jim Sweeney	1980–1996	19	143	75	3	.654	7
19	Pat Hill	1997–2011	15	112	80	0	.583	11
20	Tim DeRuyter	2012–2016	5	30	30	0	.500	3
21	Eric Kiesau	2016	1	0	4	0	.000	0
22	Jeff Tedford	2017–2019	5	45	22	0	.671	3
23	Kalen DeBoer	2020–2021	2	12	6	0	.667	0
24	Jeff Tedford (totals included on line 22)	2022-PRESENT
	Totals	1921–2019	99	613	431	28	.585	25

v t e Fresno State Bulldogs football
Venues	Ratcliffe Stadium (1926–1979) Valley Children's Stadium (1980–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Boise State Hawaii San Diego State San Jose State
Culture & lore	Timeout Bulldog Marching Band
People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

v t e Head football coaches of the Mountain West Conference
Troy Calhoun (Air Force) Boise State ) Colorado State ) Jeff Tedford (Fresno State) Timmy Chang (Hawaii) Nevada ) New Mexico ) Sean Lewis (San Diego State) Ken Niumatalolo (San Jose State) Barry Odom (UNLV) Utah State ) Wyoming )
# denotes interim head coach