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The 2026 season will mark the 131ST of football at the University of Alabama. In the previous 130 the Crimson Tide has had 29 Head Coaches. Since E.B. Beaumont in 1892 the job of Head Coach at the University of Alabama is one of the most important ones in College Football.

HEAD COACH	YEARS	WINS	LOSE	TIES
1-E.B. Beaumont	1892	2	2	0
2-Eli Abbott	1893-95	3	9	0
3-Otto Wagonhurst	1896	2	1	0
4-Allen McCants	1897	1	0	0
5-W.A. Martin	1899	3	1	0
6-M. Griffin	1900	2	3	0
7-G.H. Harvey	1901	2	1	2
2-Eli Abbott & 8-James Heyworth	1902	4	4	0
9-W.B. Blount	1903-04	10	7	0
10-Jack Leavenworth	1905	6	4	0
11-J.W.H. Pollard	1906-09	21	4	5
12-Guy Lowman	1910	4	4	0
13-D.V. Graves	1911-14	21	12	3
14-Thomas Kelly*	1915-17	17	7	1
15-Xen Scott	1919-22	29	9	3
16-Wallace Wade	1923-30	61	13	3
17-Frank Thomas	1931-46	115	24	7
18-Red Drew	1947-54	54	28	7
19-J.B. Whitworth	1955-57	4	24	2
20-Paul W. Bryant	1958-82	232	46	9
21-Ray Perkins	1983-86	32	15	1
22-Bill Curry	1987-89	26	10	0
23-Gene Stallings	1990-96	70	16	1
24-Mike DuBose	1997-00	24	23	0
25-Dennis Franchione	2001-02	17	8	0
26-Mike Shula	2003-2006	26	23	0
27-Joe Kines	2006	0	1	0
28-Nick Saban @@	2007- 2023	206	29	0
29-Kalen DeBoer	2024 -	25	8	0
	TOTAL	1,019	336	44

*On 10/30/1915 vs.Sewanee, Thomas Kelley missed the game due to typhoid. Loonie Noojin coached the team that day and for the rest of the season. Noojin does not get credit for the games since he was not official named coach.

@Mike Price was named Head Coach in December of 2002 and was fired on 4/3/2003. He never coached a game for Alabama.

@@On 11/28/2020 vs. Auburn, Nick Saban did not coach the game because of Covid-19. He watched the game from home. Steve Sarkisian was coach that day but do not get credit for the win.