List of San Jose State Spartans head football coaches

The San Jose State Spartans college football team represent San Jose State University in the Mountain West Conference. The Spartans competed in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) College Division in the years 1921–1968. In 1969, the team moved to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I.

The program has had 29 different head coaches in its 99 seasons of existence (through 2016), including one who had multiple tenures as coach.

Coaches

No.	Coach	Tenure	Seasons	Win	Loss	Tie	Pct.	Bowls
1	James E. Addicott	1893–1898	5	6	6	4	.500	0
2	Jess Woods	1899	1	5	2	1	.643	0
3	James E. Addicott (totals included on line 1)	1900
4	Fielding Yost	1900	0	1	0	0	1.000	0
5	David Wooster	1921–1922	2	3	10	1	.250	0
6	H. C. McDonald	1923	1	0	6	0	.000	0
7	E. R. Knollin	1924–1928	5	13	22	2	.378	0
8	Walter Crawford	1929–1931	3	6	14	4	.333	0
9	Dudley DeGroot	1932–1939	8	60	19	8	.736	0
10	Ben Winkelman	1940–1941	2	16	4	3	.761	0
11	Glenn Hartranft	1942	1	7	2	0	.778	0
12	Bill Hubbard	1946–1949	4	36	11	1	.761	2
13	Bob Bronzan	1950–1956	7	32	30	5	.515	0
14	Bob Titchenal	1957–1964	8	33	45	1	.424	0
15	Harry Anderson	1965–1968	4	13	26	0	.333	0
16	Joe McMullen	1969–1970	1.33	3	10	0	.231	0
17	Dewey King	1970–1972	2.67	10	20	1	.339	1
18	Darryl Rogers	1973–1975	3	22	9	3	.691	0
19	Lynn Stiles	1976–1978	3	18	16	0	.529	0
20	Jack Elway	1979–1983	5	35	20	1	.634	1
21	Claude Gilbert	1984–1989	5	38	30	1	.558	2
22	Terry Shea	1990–1991	2	15	6	2	.696	1
23	Ron Turner	1992	1	7	4	0	.636	0
24	John Ralston	1993–1996	4	11	34	0	.244	0
25	Dave Baldwin	1997–2000	4	18	27	0	.400	0
26	Fitz Hill	2001–2004	4	14	33	0	.298	0
27	Dick Tomey	2005–2009	5	25	35	0	.417	1
28	Mike MacIntyre	2010–2012	3	16	21	0	.432	0
29	Kent Baer	2012	0	1	0	0	1.000	1
30	Ron Caragher	2013–2016	4	19	30	0	.388	1
	Totals	1893–2016	98	483	492	37	.496	10