1892–2024 · 31 head coaches · 576-683-46
- MC Matt Campbell 2016–2024 64-51
- DM Dan McCarney 1995–2006 56-85
- CS Clay Stapleton 1958–1967 42-53-4
- EB Earle Bruce 1973–1978 36-32
Iowa State’s complete head-coaching lineage: 31 tenures from 1892 to 2024, led by Dan McCarney’s 12 seasons. Records, tenure length, and the programs each coach branched to.
Coaching Tree Archive
Every head coach to lead Iowa State, from 1892 to 2024 — 31 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 Iowa State tree covers every head coach on record from 1892 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.
Iowa State has had 31 head-coaching tenures on record between 1892 and 2024, producing a combined 576-683-46 record. The full lineage is at https://fantasyhq.co/cfb-hq/coaching-tree/iowa-state.
Dan McCarney holds the longest head-coaching tenure at Iowa State with 12 seasons. Matt Campbell recorded the most wins with 64.
Matt Campbell is the most recent Iowa State head coach in FantasyHQ’s records (2016–2024). Coaching changes are reflected when the season data updates; this page was last labeled Aug 24, 2026.
12 other FBS programs have employed a Iowa State head coach. Ohio State shares the most with 2. Each connected program links to its own coaching tree from https://fantasyhq.co/cfb-hq/coaching-tree/iowa-state.
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.