1895–2024 · 35 head coaches · 591-591-36
- JS Jackie Sherrill 1991–2003 74-76-2
- DM Dan Mullen 2009–2017 70-46
- AM Allyn McKeen 1939–1948 65-19-3
- EB Emory Bellard 1979–1985 37-42
Mississippi State’s complete head-coaching lineage: 35 tenures from 1895 to 2024, led by Jackie Sherrill’s 13 seasons. Records, tenure length, and the programs each coach branched to.
Coaching Tree Archive
Every head coach to lead Mississippi State, from 1895 to 2024 — 35 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 Mississippi State tree covers every head coach on record from 1895 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.
Mississippi State has had 35 head-coaching tenures on record between 1895 and 2024, producing a combined 591-591-36 record. The full lineage is at https://fantasyhq.co/cfb-hq/coaching-tree/mississippi-state.
Jackie Sherrill holds the longest head-coaching tenure at Mississippi State with 13 seasons. Jackie Sherrill recorded the most wins with 74.
Jeff Lebby is the most recent Mississippi State head coach in FantasyHQ’s records (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 Mississippi State head coach. Minnesota shares the most with 2. Each connected program links to its own coaching tree from https://fantasyhq.co/cfb-hq/coaching-tree/mississippi-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.