List of West Virginia Mountaineers football seasons

The West Virginia Mountaineers college football team competes as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, representing West Virginia University in the Big 12 Conference. West Virginia has played their home games on Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium in Morgantown, West Virginia since 1980.

From 1891 to 1949, West Virginia competed as a football independent. The Mountaineers saw modest success during this period and made appearances in bowl games in both 1922 and 1948. From 1950 to 1967, West Virginia was a member of the Southern Conference and won the conference championship nine times. The membership of the SoCon fluctuated wildly at times during West Virginia's tenure, and by 1968 they chose to leave the conference and become a football independent once more. Between 1968 and 1990, the Mountaineers again competed as an independent and played in ten separate bowl games under three head coaches: Jim Carlen, Bobby Bowden and Don Nehlen. From 1991–2011, West Virginia competed in the Big East Conference and won seven conference championships. Through the 2014 season, West Virginia has compiled an official overall record of 719 wins, 477 losses, 45 ties and has appeared in 32 bowl games, with its most recent appearance coming in the 2016 Cactus Bowl.

Seasons

Year	Coach	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	Coaches#	AP°
Frederick Lincoln Emory (Independent) (1891–1891)
1891	Emory	0–1
1892	No team
F. William Rane (Independent) (1893–1894)
1893	Rane	2–1
1894	Rane	2–2
Harry McCrory (Independent) (1895–1895)
1895	McCrory	5–1
Thomas Trenchard (Independent) (1896–1896)
1896	Trenchard	3–7–2
George Krebs (Independent) (1897–1897)
1897	Krebs	5–4–1
Harry Anderson (Independent) (1898–1898)
1898	Anderson	6–1
Louis Yeager (Independent) (1899–1899)
1899	Yeager	2–3
John Hill (Independent) (1900–1900)
1900	Hill	4–3
Louis Yeager (Independent) (1901–1902)
1901	Yeager	3–2
1902	Yeager	7–4
Harry E. Trout (Independent) (1903–1903)
1903	Trout	7–1
Anthony Chez (Independent) (1904–1904)
1904	Chez	6–3
Carl Forkum (Independent) (1905–1906)
1905	Forkum	8–1
1906	Forkum	5–5
Clarence W. Russell (Independent) (1907–1907)
1907	Russell	6–4
Charles Augustus Lueder (Independent) (1908–1911)
1908	Lueder	5–3
1909	Lueder	4–3–2
1910	Lueder	2–4–1
1911	Lueder	6–3
William P. Edmunds (Independent) (1912–1912)
1912	Edmunds	6–3
Edwin Sweetland (Independent) (1913–1913)
1913	Sweetland	3–4–2
Sol Metzger (Independent) (1914–1915)
1914	Metzger	5–4
1915	Metzger	5–2–1
Mont McIntire (Independent) (1916–1920)
1916	McIntire	5–2–2
1917	McIntire	6–3–1
1918	No team (WWI)
1919	McIntire	8–2
1920	McIntire	5–4–1
Clarence Spears (Independent) (1921–1924)
1921	Spears	5–4–1
1922	Spears	10–0–1			W East-West
1923	Spears	7–1–1
1924	Spears	8–1
Ira Errett Rodgers (Independent) (1925–1930)
1925	Rodgers	8–1
1926	Rodgers	6–4
1927	Rodgers	2–4–3
1928	Rodgers	8–2
1929	Rodgers	4–3–3
1930	Rodgers	5–5
Greasy Neale (Independent) (1931–1933)
1931	Neale	4–6
1932	Neale	5–5
1933	Neale	3–5–3
Charles Tallman (Independent) (1934–1936)
1934	Tallman	6–4
1935	Tallman	3–4–2
1936	Tallman	6–4
Marshall Glenn (Independent) (1937–1939)
1937	Glenn	8–1–1			W Sun
1938	Glenn	4–5–1
1939	Glenn	2–6–1
Bill Kern (Independent) (1940–1942)
1940	Kern	4–4–1
1941	Kern	4–6
1942	Kern	5–4
Ira Errett Rodgers (Independent) (1943–1945)
1943	Rodgers	4–3
1944	Rodgers	5–3–1
1945	Rodgers	2–6–1
Bill Kern (Independent) (1946–1947)
1946	Kern	5–5
1947	Kern	6–4
Dudley DeGroot (Independent) (1948–1949)
1948	DeGroot	9–3			W Sun
1949	DeGroot	4–6–1
Art Lewis (Southern) (1950–1959)
1950	Lewis	2–8	1–3	14th
1951	Lewis	5–5	2–3	10th
1952	Lewis	7–2	5–1	2nd
1953	Lewis	8–2	4–0	1st	L Sugar	13	10
1954	Lewis	8–1	3–0	1st		—	12
1955	Lewis	8–2	4–0	1st		17	19
1956	Lewis	6–4	5–0	1st
1957	Lewis	7–2–1	3–0	2nd
1958	Lewis	4–5–1	4–0	1st
1959	Lewis	3–7	2–2
Gene Corum (Southern) (1960–1965)
1960	Corum	0–8–2	0–2–1	9th
1961	Corum	4–6	2–1	4th
1962	Corum	8–2	4–0	2nd
1963	Corum	4–6	3–1	2nd
1964	Corum	7–4	5–0	1st	L Liberty
1965	Corum	6–4	4–0	1st
Jim Carlen (Southern) (1966–1967)
1966	Carlen	3–5–2	3–0	2nd
1967	Carlen	5–4–1	3–0–1	1st
Jim Carlen (Independent) (1968–1969)
1968	Carlen	7–3
1969	Carlen	10–1			W Peach		17
Bobby Bowden (Independent) (1970–1975)
1970	Bowden	8–3
1971	Bowden	7–4
1972	Bowden	8–4			L Peach
1973	Bowden	6–5
1974	Bowden	4–7
1975	Bowden	9–3			W Peach	17	20
Frank Cignetti (Independent) (1976–1979)
1976	Cignetti	5–6
1977	Cignetti	5–6
1978	Cignetti	2–9
1979	Cignetti	5–6
Don Nehlen (Independent) (1980–1990)
1980	Nehlen	6–6
1981	Nehlen	9–3			W Peach	18	17
1982	Nehlen	9–3			L Gator	19	19
1983	Nehlen	9–3			W Hall of Fame Classic	16	16
1984	Nehlen	8–4			W Bluebonnet	18
1985	Nehlen	7–3–1
1986	Nehlen	4–7
1987	Nehlen	6–6			L Sun
1988	Nehlen	11–1			L Fiesta	5	5
1989	Nehlen	8–3–1			L Gator		21
1990	Nehlen	4–7
Don Nehlen (Big East) (1991–2000)
1991	Nehlen	6–5	3–4	3rd
1992	Nehlen	5–4–2	2–3–1	5th
1993	Nehlen	11–1	7–0	1st	L Sugar	6	7
1994	Nehlen	7–6	4–3	T-3rd	L Carquest
1995	Nehlen	5–6	4–3	T-4th
1996	Nehlen	8–4	4–3	4th	L Gator
1997	Nehlen	7–5	4–3	T-3rd	L Carquest
1998	Nehlen	8–4	5–2	T-2nd	L Insight.com
1999	Nehlen	4–7	3–4	T-4th
2000	Nehlen	7–5	3–4	T-5th	W Music City
Rich Rodriguez (Big East) (2001–2007)
2001	Rodriguez	3–8	1–6	7th
2002	Rodriguez	9–4	6–1	2nd	L Continental Tire	20	25
2003	Rodriguez	8–5	6–1	T-1st	L Gator
2004	Rodriguez	8–4	4–2	T-1st	L Gator
2005	Rodriguez	11–1	7–0	1st	W Sugar†	6	5
2006	Rodriguez	11–2	5–2	T-2nd	W Gator	10	10
2007	Rodriguez/Stewart	11–2	5–2	T-1st	W Fiesta†	6	6
Bill Stewart (Big East) (2008–2010)
2008	Stewart	9–4	5–2	T-2nd	W Meineke Car Care		23
2009	Stewart	9–4	5–2	T-2nd	L Gator	22	25
2010	Stewart	9–4	5–2	T-1st	L Champs Sports
Dana Holgorsen (Big East) (2011–2011)
2011	Holgorsen	10–3	5–2	T-1st	W Orange†	18	17
Dana Holgorsen (Big 12) (2012–2013)
2012	Holgorsen	7–6	4–5	T-5th	L Pinstripe
2013	Holgorsen	4–8	2–7	T-7th
2014	Holgorsen	7–6	5-4	T-4th	L Liberty
2015	Holgorsen	8–5	4-5	5th	W Cactus
Total:		727–482–45
National championship         Conference title         Conference division title
†Indicates Bowl Coalition, Bowl Alliance, BCS, or CFP / New Years' Six bowl. #Rankings from final Coaches Poll.