1894–2024 · 32 head coaches · 500-644-31
- RL Rocky Long 1998–2008 65-69
- RJ Roy W. Johnson 1920–1930 41-32-6
- BW Bill Weeks 1960–1967 40-41-1
- BD Bob Davie 2012–2019 35-64
New Mexico’s complete head-coaching lineage: 32 tenures from 1894 to 2024, led by Roy W. Johnson’s 11 seasons. Records, tenure length, and the programs each coach branched to.
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Every head coach to lead New Mexico, from 1894 to 2024 — 32 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 New Mexico 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.
New Mexico has had 32 head-coaching tenures on record between 1894 and 2024, producing a combined 500-644-31 record. The full lineage is at https://fantasyhq.co/cfb-hq/coaching-tree/new-mexico.
Roy W. Johnson holds the longest head-coaching tenure at New Mexico with 11 seasons. Rocky Long recorded the most wins with 65.
Bronco Mendenhall is the most recent New Mexico 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 New Mexico head coach. San Jose State shares the most with 2. Each connected program links to its own coaching tree from https://fantasyhq.co/cfb-hq/coaching-tree/new-mexico.
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.