1890–2024 · 26 head coaches · 976-336-53
- WH Wayne Hayes 1951–1978 205-61-10
- JC John Cooper 1988–2000 111-43-4
- JT Jim Tressel 2001–2010 94-22
- UM Urban Meyer 2012–2018 86-9
Ohio State’s complete head-coaching lineage: 26 tenures from 1890 to 2024, led by Wayne Hayes’s 28 seasons. Records, tenure length, and the programs each coach branched to.
Coaching Tree Archive
Every head coach to lead Ohio State, from 1890 to 2024 — 26 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 Ohio State tree covers every head coach on record from 1890 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.
Ohio State has had 26 head-coaching tenures on record between 1890 and 2024, producing a combined 976-336-53 record. The full lineage is at https://fantasyhq.co/cfb-hq/coaching-tree/ohio-state.
Wayne Hayes holds the longest head-coaching tenure at Ohio State with 28 seasons. Wayne Hayes recorded the most wins with 205.
Ryan Day is the most recent Ohio State head coach in FantasyHQ’s records (2019–2024). Coaching changes are reflected when the season data updates; this page was last labeled Aug 24, 2026.
12 other FBS programs have employed a Ohio State head coach. Iowa State shares the most with 2. Each connected program links to its own coaching tree from https://fantasyhq.co/cfb-hq/coaching-tree/ohio-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.