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List of Ole Miss Rebels head football coaches
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The Ole Miss Rebels college football team represents the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The Rebels compete as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 38 head coaches[1] since it began play during the 1893 season.[2][3] The current head coach is Lane Kiffin, whose hiring was announced on December 7, 2019 after former coach Matt Luke was fired at the end of his third season (including one year as interim head coach).[3]

The team has played 1,242 games, including 33 wins later vacated as a result of NCAA penalties, over 125 seasons.[4] In that time, eight coaches have led the Rebels in postseason bowl games: Ed Walker, Johnny Vaught, Billy Brewer, Tommy Tuberville, David Cutcliffe, Houston Nutt, Hugh Freeze, and Kiffin.[2] Vaught won six conference championships as a member of the SEC and three national championships with the Rebels.[5][6]
Vaught is the leader in seasons coached and games won, with 190 victories during his 25 years with the program.[2] C. D. Clark has the highest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with .857.[2] Z. N. Estes and Frank Mason have the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with .000.[2] Of the 38 different head coaches who have led the Rebels, Vaught[7] is the only one to have been inducted as a head coach into the College Football Hall of Fame.
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- 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.
- Statistics correct as of the end of the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
- Ole Miss did not field teams for the 1897 season due to a yellow fever epidemic, and for the 1943 season due to World War II. Ole Miss did not have a head coach for the 1905 season.[5]
- Divisional champions have advanced to the SEC Championship Game since the institution of divisional play beginning in the 1992 season. Since that time, Ole Miss has competed as a member of the SEC West.[11]
- Johnny Vaught retired following the 1970 season due to a mild heart attack. He returned to coach the Rebels for the final eight games of the 1973 after the firing of Billy Kinard. Kinard finished the season with one win and two losses and Vaught finished with five wins and three losses.[12]
- Tommy Tuberville resigned following the 1998 regular season to take the head coaching position at Auburn. David Cutcliffe was then hired and coached the Rebels to a victory in the 1998 Independence Bowl.[13]
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