Coaching History
TCU Football Coaches
Season-by-season coaching records, tenure arcs, and linked CFBTrack profiles for TCU.
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Coaches
26
Indexed Record
682-556-50
Best Win %
Francis Schmidt 86.8%
All-time coaching ledger
Records use fallback-adjusted coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are not included in the table totals.
| Coach | Years | Record | Win % | Best SRS | Best Finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonny Dykes | 2022-2025 • 4 seasons | 36-17 | 67.9% | 16.7 | #2 |
| Gary Patterson | 2000-2021 • 22 seasons | 181-79 | 69.6% | 26.8 | #2 |
| Jerry Kill | 2021-2021 • 1 seasons | 2-2 | 50.0% | -2.8 | — |
| Dennis Franchione | 1998-2000 • 3 seasons | 25-10 | 71.4% | 15.0 | #21 |
| Pat Sullivan | 1992-1997 • 6 seasons | 24-42-1 | 36.6% | 0.0 | — |
| Jim Wacker | 1983-1991 • 9 seasons | 40-58-2 | 41.0% | 5.6 | — |
| F Dry | 1977-1982 • 6 seasons | 12-51-3 | 20.4% | 2.1 | — |
| Jim Shofner | 1974-1976 • 3 seasons | 2-31 | 6.1% | -4.8 | — |
| Billy Tohill | 1971-1973 • 3 seasons | 11-15 | 42.3% | 4.5 | — |
| Jim Pittman | 1971-1971 • 1 seasons | 3-3-1 | 50.0% | -0.4 | — |
| Fred Taylor | 1967-1970 • 4 seasons | 15-25-1 | 37.8% | 5.9 | — |
| Abe Martin | 1953-1966 • 14 seasons | 74-64-7 | 53.4% | 25.8 | #6 |
| Dutch Meyer | 1934-1952 • 19 seasons | 109-79-13 | 57.5% | 23.6 | #1 |
| Francis Schmidt | 1929-1933 • 5 seasons | 47-5-5 | 86.8% | 25.1 | — |
| Madison Bell | 1923-1928 • 6 seasons | 33-17-5 | 64.5% | 13.8 | — |
| John McKnight | 1922-1922 • 1 seasons | 2-5-3 | 35.0% | -3.8 | — |
| Bill Driver | 1920-1921 • 2 seasons | 15-4-1 | 77.5% | -11.8 | — |
| TD Hackney | 1919-1919 • 1 seasons | 1-7 | 12.5% | -18.9 | — |
| EM Tipton | 1918-1918 • 1 seasons | 4-3 | 57.1% | — | — |
| Milton Daniel | 1916-1917 • 2 seasons | 14-4-1 | 76.3% | 11.5 | — |
| Ewing Freeland | 1915-1915 • 1 seasons | 4-5 | 44.4% | -19.3 | — |
| Daddy Boles | 1914-1914 • 1 seasons | 4-4-2 | 50.0% | -19.2 | — |
| Kemp Lewis | 1910-1910 • 1 seasons | 2-6-1 | 27.8% | -15.7 | — |
| JR Langley | 1908-1909 • 2 seasons | 11-5-1 | 67.7% | 9.5 | — |
| EJ Hyde | 1905-1907 • 3 seasons | 10-11-2 | 47.8% | -8.7 | — |
| CE Cronk | 1904-1904 • 1 seasons | 1-4-1 | 25.0% | -22.5 | — |
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