List of Texas State Bobcats head football coaches

The Texas State Bobcats college football team represents Texas State University as a member of the Sun Belt Conference. The Bobcats competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 20 head coaches, and one interim head coach, since it began play during the 1904 season. Since December 2022, G. J. Kinne has served as head coach at Texas State.^[1]

Jake Spavital served as the head coach of the Texas State Bobcats from 2019 to 2022.

Key

Key to symbols in coaches list

General		Overall		Conference		Postseason[A 1]
No.	Order of coaches[A 2]	GC	Games coached	CW	Conference wins	PW	Postseason wins
DC	Division championships	OW	Overall wins	CL	Conference losses	PL	Postseason losses
CC	Conference championships	OL	Overall losses	CT	Conference ties	PT	Postseason ties
NC	National championships	OT	Overall ties[A 3]	C%	Conference winning percentage
†	Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame	O%	Overall winning percentage[A 4]

Coaches

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards^{[A 5]}

No.	Name [A 6]	Season(s) [A 7]	GC	OW	OL	OT	O%	CW	CL	CT	C%	PW	PL	PT	CC	NC	Awards
1	James R. Coxen	1910–1912	16	4	10	2	0.313	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	—
2	C. Spurgeon Smith	1913–1915	26	11	13	2	0.462	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	—
3	G. B. Marsh	1916–1918	22	12	6	4	0.636	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	—
4	Oscar W. Strahan	1919–1934	134	72	52	10	0.575	32	29	7	0.522	—	—	—	1	0	—
5	Joe Bailey Cheaney	1935–1942	71	23	42	6	0.366	7	22	2	0.258	—	—	—	0	0	—
6	George Vest	1946–1950	50	30	17	3	0.630	15	9	0	0.625	—	—	—	1	0	—
7	Milton Jowers	1951–1953 1961–1964	68	48	18	2	0.721	27	12	2	0.683	—	—	—	1	0	—
8	R. W. Parker	1954–1959	58	31	24	3	0.560	23	15	1	0.603	—	—	—	2	0	—
9	Jack Henry	1960	10	2	8	0	0.200	1	6	0	0.143	—	—	—	0	0	—
10	Bill Miller	1965–1978	140	86	51	3	0.625	65	41	2	0.611	—	—	—	1	0	—
11	Jim Wacker	1979–1982	50	42	8	0	0.840	22	6	0	0.579	6	0	0	3	2 – 1981, 1982	—
12	John O'Hara	1983–1989	77	36	41	0	0.468	18	21	0	0.462	0	0	0	1	0	—
13	Dennis Franchione	1990–1991 2011–2015	82	39	43	0	0.476	17	24	0	0.415	0	0	0	0	0	—
14	Jim Bob Helduser	1992–1996	55	20	34	1	0.373	8	22	1	0.274	0	0	0	0	0	—
15	Bob DeBesse	1997–2002	66	26	40	—	0.394	12	28	—	0.300	0	0	—	0	0	—
16	Manny Matsakis	2003	12	5	7	—	0.417	2	3	—	0.400	0	0	—	0	0	—
17	David Bailiff	2004–2006	36	21	15	—	0.583	10	6	—	0.625	2	1	—	1	0	—
18	Brad Wright	2007–2010	46	23	23	—	0.500	14	14	—	0.500	0	1	—	0	0	—
19	Everett Withers	2016–2018	35	7	28	—	0.200	2	21	—	0.087	0	0	—	0	0	—
Int	Chris Woods	2018	1	0	1	—	.000	0	1	—	.000	0	0	—	0	0	—
20	Jake Spavital	2019–2022	48	13	35	—	0.271	9	23	—	0.281	0	0	—	0	0	—
21	G. J. Kinne	2023–present	25	16	10	—	0.615	9	7	—	0.563	2	0	—	0	0	—

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Notes

1. Although the first Rose Bowl Game was played in 1902, it has been continuously played since the 1916 game, and is recognized as the oldest bowl game by the NCAA. "—" indicates any season prior to 1916 when postseason games were not played.^[2]
2. 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.
3. Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.^[3]
4. When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss.^[4]
5. Statistics correct as of the end of the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
6. Texas State did not have a head coach for their 1904 or 1908 seasons.
7. Texas State did not field teams from 1905–1907, 1909, and from 1943–1945 due to World War II.