List of college football coaches with 150 NCAA Division I FCS wins

This is a list of college football coaches with 150 career wins in NCAA Division I FCS, the lower of two levels of NCAA Division I football.

Historical overview

FCS, short for "Football Championship Subdivision", was created in 1978 when the NCAA split Division I football into two groups. The strongest programs and conferences were placed in Division I-A, known since 2006 as the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Other Division I football programs were placed in Division I-AA, which was renamed as FCS in 2006.

The official NCAA record book contains a list of the 50 winningest FCS coaches. However, it is not truly indicative of the most successful coaches at that level because of the criteria used for its compilation. Inclusion on the list requires a minimum of 10 years as a head coach at the FCS level, but each coach's win total includes all wins at four-year institutions, regardless of whether these schools were FCS at that time.

As of the 2023 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game that ended the 2022 season, a total of 14 head football coaches have won 150 or more games while serving in that role at the FCS level.

Key

* Active at the FCS level in the 2023 season.
† Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach.
†† Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player.
††† Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach.

Coaches with 150 career FCS wins

Updated as of Week 2 of the 2023 season.
Rank Name Seasons Wins Losses Ties Pct. Teams
1 Jimmye Laycock 37 242 179 2 .574 William & Mary (1982–2018)
2 Roy Kidd† 25 225 78 2 .741 Eastern Kentucky (1978–2002)
3 Andy Talley† 30 217 136 1 .614 Villanova (1987–2016)
4 Jerry Moore† 24 215 87 0 .712 Appalachian State (1989–2012)
5 Tim Murphy* 32 207 95 0 .685 Maine (1987–1988), Harvard (1994–present)
6 Al Bagnoli 30 183 115 0 .614 Penn (1992–2014), Columbia (2015–2022)
7 Tubby Raymond† 22 181 81 1 .690 Delaware (1980–2001)
8 Kevin Callahan* 30 177 131 0 .575 Monmouth (1994–present)
9 Mark Farley* 23 174 100 0 .635 Northern Iowa (2001–present)
10 K. C. Keeler 20 171 79 0 .684 Delaware (2002–2012), Sam Houston (2014–2022)
11 Rob Ash 23 171 86 1 .665 Drake (1993–2006), Montana State (2007–2015)
12 Mike Ayers 26 171 130 1 .568 East Tennessee State (1985–1987), Wofford (1995–2017)
13 John Stiegelmeier 19 157 79 0 .665 South Dakota State (2004–2022)
14 Sean McDonnell 22 157 104 0 .602 New Hampshire (1999–2021)


See also