List of Old Dominion Monarchs head football coaches

The Old Dominion Monarchs college football team represents Old Dominion University in the East Division of Conference USA (C-USA). The Monarchs compete as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 2 head coaches, since it began play during the 1930 season; the Monarchs played from 1930-1940 and then disbanded, only to field a team over sixty years later in 2009.

Old Dominion has played 178 games over 19 seasons, appearing in 1 bowl game (December 23, 2016) and winning no national championships.[1] They competed in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision from the team's reincarnation in 2009 to 2013, appearing in the playoffs twice and finishing the 2012 season ranked #6 in the FCS, their peak final ranking in school history. to the As of December 8, 2016, the team's overall record is 108–66–4. The team's 100th win came in the 2016 season opener against Hampton, which ODU won 54–21. The Monarchs reached the first bowl game in school history when they finished the 2016 regular season 9-3 and accepted a bid to play Eastern Michigan in the Bahamas Bowl.

Key

Key to symbols in coaches list
General Overall Conference Postseason[A 1]
No. Order of coaches[A 2] 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[A 3] C% Conference winning percentage
† Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame O% Overall winning percentage[A 4]

Coaches

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards[A 5]
No. Name Season(s) GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL PT DC CC NC Awards
1 Tommy Scott 1930–1940 82 41 35 5 0.537 — — — — — — — — — 0
2 Bobby Wilder 2009–2019 133 77 56 — 0.579 32 32 — 0.500 3 2 — 1 0 0
3 Ricky Rahne 2020–present 50 20 30 — 0.400 16 16 — 0.500 0 2 — 1 0 0

Notes

  1. ^ Although the first Rose Bowl Game was played in 1902, it has been continuously played since the 1916 game, and is recognized as the oldest bowl game by the NCAA. "—" indicates any season prior to 1916 when postseason games were not played.[2]
  2. ^ A running total of the number of head coaches, with coaches who served separate tenures being counted only once. Interim head coaches are represented with "Int" and are not counted in the running total. "—" indicates the team played but either without a coach or no coach is on record. "X" indicates an interim year without play.
  3. ^ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[3]
  4. ^ When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss.[4]
  5. ^ Statistics correct as of the end of the 2023 NCAA Division I FBS football season.

References

  1. ^ "Old Dominion Historical Data". Archived from the original on March 12, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2011). Bowl/All-Star Game Records (PDF). Indianapolis, Indiana: NCAA. pp. 5–10. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
  3. ^ Whiteside, Kelly (August 25, 2006). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today. McLean, Virginia. Archived from the original on September 6, 2010. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
  4. ^ Finder, Chuck (September 6, 1987). "Big plays help Paterno to 200th". The New York Times. New York City. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2009.