1894–2024 · 34 head coaches · 748-549-42
- FB Frank Broyles 1958–1976 144-58-5
- HN Houston Nutt 1998–2007 75-49
- LH Lou Holtz 1977–1983 60-21-2
- FT Fred C. Thomsen 1929–1941 56-61-10
Arkansas’s complete head-coaching lineage: 34 tenures from 1894 to 2024, led by Frank Broyles’s 19 seasons. Records, tenure length, and the programs each coach branched to.
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Every head coach to lead Arkansas, from 1894 to 2024 — 34 tenures mapped as a network, with records, tenure length, and the programs each coach branched to.
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Last updated Aug 24, 2026
A coaching tree maps the chain of head coaches at a program and the other jobs those coaches held. This Arkansas tree covers every head coach on record from 1894 to 2024, ordered oldest to newest, with each tenure’s record and length.
Tenures are aggregated from season-by-season head-coaching records. Consecutive seasons at one program group into a single tenure, and a coach who returns later gets a second branch. This is a head-coach lineage, not an assistant-coach tree.
A coaching tree traces the succession of head coaches at a program — who held the job, in what order, and which other schools those coaches led before or after. FantasyHQ builds one for 134 FBS programs at https://fantasyhq.co/cfb-hq/coaching-tree, covering every head-coaching tenure on record since 1882.
Arkansas has had 34 head-coaching tenures on record between 1894 and 2024, producing a combined 748-549-42 record. The full lineage is at https://fantasyhq.co/cfb-hq/coaching-tree/arkansas.
Frank Broyles holds the longest head-coaching tenure at Arkansas with 19 seasons. Frank Broyles recorded the most wins with 144.
Sam Pittman is the most recent Arkansas head coach in FantasyHQ’s records (2020–2024). Coaching changes are reflected when the season data updates; this page was last labeled Aug 24, 2026.
12 other FBS programs have employed a Arkansas head coach. Clemson shares the most with 2. Each connected program links to its own coaching tree from https://fantasyhq.co/cfb-hq/coaching-tree/arkansas.
Tenures are built from season-by-season college football head-coaching records covering 134 FBS programs from 1882 onward. Each tenure aggregates that coach’s consecutive seasons at the program into wins, losses, and ties. Records were last labeled Aug 24, 2026.