1889–2024 · 33 head coaches · 747-525-53
- BA Barry Alvarez 1990–2005 118-73-4
- PC Paul Chryst 2015–2022 72-29
- BB Bret Bielema 2006–2012 68-25
- PK Phillip King 1896–1902 57-9-1
Wisconsin’s complete head-coaching lineage: 33 tenures from 1889 to 2024, led by Barry Alvarez’s 16 seasons. Records, tenure length, and the programs each coach branched to.
Coaching Tree Archive
Every head coach to lead Wisconsin, from 1889 to 2024 — 33 tenures mapped as a network, with records, tenure length, and the programs each coach branched to.
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Career wins across every FBS program each coach led.
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 Wisconsin tree covers every head coach on record from 1889 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.
Wisconsin has had 33 head-coaching tenures on record between 1889 and 2024, producing a combined 747-525-53 record. The full lineage is at https://fantasyhq.co/cfb-hq/coaching-tree/wisconsin.
Barry Alvarez holds the longest head-coaching tenure at Wisconsin with 16 seasons. Barry Alvarez recorded the most wins with 118.
Luke Fickell is the most recent Wisconsin head coach in FantasyHQ’s records (2023–2024). Coaching changes are reflected when the season data updates; this page was last labeled Aug 24, 2026.
12 other FBS programs have employed a Wisconsin head coach. Ohio State shares the most with 3. Each connected program links to its own coaching tree from https://fantasyhq.co/cfb-hq/coaching-tree/wisconsin.
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.