UGA Football Head Coaches
A history of UGA football head coaches. Dr. Charles Herty was the first head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs. Below is the full list of UGA football head coaches with their records, including current head coach Kirby Smart.
UGA Football Head Coaches
1892-2022
| Coach | Years | Games | Won | Lost | Tied | Pct. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Charles Herty | 1892 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .500 |
| Ernest Brown | 1893 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | .400 |
| Robert Winston | 1894 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .833 |
| Glenn “Pop” Warner | 1895-96 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | .636 |
| Charles McCarthy | 1897-98 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | .797 |
| Gordon Saussy | 1899 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | .333 |
| E.E. Jones | 1900 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | .333 |
| Billy Reynolds | 1901-02 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | .333 |
| M.M. Dickinson | 1903, ’05 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 0 | .308 |
| Charles A. Barnard | 1904 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | .167 |
| W.S. Whitney | 1906-07 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 2 | .400 |
| Branch Bocock | 1908 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | .625 |
| J. Coulter & Frank Dobson | 1909 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | .143 |
| W.A. Cunningham | 1910-19 | 70 | 43 | 18 | 9 | .614 |
| H.J. Stegeman | 1920-22 | 29 | 20 | 6 | 3 | .690 |
| George “Kid” Woodruff | 1923-27 | 47 | 30 | 16 | 1 | .638 |
| Harry Mehre | 1928-37 | 99 | 59 | 34 | 6 | .596 |
| Joel Hunt | 1938 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | .500 |
| Wally Butts | 1939-60 | 235 | 140 | 86 | 9 | .596 |
| Johnny Griffith | 1961-63 | 30 | 10 | 16 | 4 | .333 |
| Vince Dooley | 1964-88 | 288 | 201 | 77 | 10 | .698 |
| Ray Goff | 1989-95 | 81 | 46 | 34 | 1 | .568 |
| Jim Donnan | 1996-00 | 59 | 40 | 19 | 0 | .678 |
| Mark Richt | 2001-15 | 196 | 145 | 51 | 0 | .740 |
| Bryan McClendon* | 2015 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .1000 |
| Kirby Smart | 2016-22 | 96 | 81 | 15 | 0 | .844 |
| TOTALS | 1,350 | 868 | 428 | 54 | .663 |
* Interim head coach.
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