List of Ohio State Buckeyes head football coaches

The following is a list of Ohio State Buckeyes head football coaches. The Ohio State Buckeyes football team has had 22 head coaches. The current coach is Jim Tressel.

Head Coach	Period	W-L-T Record	Win %	Conference Championships	National Championships	vs Michigan
Alexander S. Lilley	1890–1891	3–5	.375	N/A	0	N/A
Frederick Bushnell "Jack" Ryder	1892–1895/1898	22–22–2	.500	N/A	0	N/A
*Charles A. Hickey	1896	5–5–1	.500	N/A	0	N/A
David Farragut Edwards	1897	1–7–1	.167	N/A	0	0–1
John B. Eckstorm	1899–1901	22–4–3	.847	N/A	0	0–1–1
Perry Hale	1902–1903	14–5–2	.714	N/A	0	0–2
Edwin Sweetland	1904–1905	14–7–2	.652	N/A	0	0–2
Albert E. Herrnstein	1906–1909	28–10–1	.731	1	0	0–4
Howard Jones	1910	6–1–3	.750	N/A	0	0–0–1
Harry Vaughan	1911	5–3–2	.600	N/A	0	0–1
John R. Richards	1912	6–3	.667	1	0	0–1
John Wilce	1913–1928	78–33–9	.688	3	0	4–7
Sam Willaman	1929–1933	26–10–5	.695	0	0	2–3
Francis Schmidt	1934–1940	39–16–1	.705	2	0	4–3
Paul Brown	1941–1943	18–8–1	.685	1	1	1–1–1
Carroll Widdoes	1944–1945	16–2	.889	1	0	1–1
Paul Bixler	1946	4–3–2	.556	0	0	0–1
Wes Fesler	1947–1950	21–13–3	.608	1	0	0–3–1
Woody Hayes	1951–1978	205–61–10	.761	13	5	16–11–1
Earle Bruce	1979–1987	81–26–1	.755	4	0	5–4
John Cooper	1988–2000	111–43–4	.715	3	0	2–10–1
Jim Tressel	2001–present	106–22	.828	7	1	9–1
TOTALS	22 coaches	831–309–53	.719	37	7	44–57–6

* Hickey was hired part-way into the season and a student coached the team several games.
All records per OSU Athletics.