Kehres retired from coaching in May 2013 with a record of 332–24–3 and a winning percentage of .929, the highest in college football history.

His Purple Raiders set the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football record for most consecutive victories with 55, running from 2000 to 2003.

He attended and played quarterback for Portage County's Southeast High School, which shared the 1966 Portage County League championship with Windham High School, before attending Mount Union College from 1967 to 1970.

[1] From 1971 to 1972, Kehres was a graduate assistant at Bowling Green State University, while studying for a master's degree in health and physical education.

In 2009, Kehres was named first vice president of the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA).

[2] In 2013, Kehres retired after 27 years as head coach to become the athletic director of Mount Union.

Kehres and his wife, Linda, have three children, Vince, Faith, and Jan.[6] He is also the uncle of current Gannon football head coach Erik Raeburn, who played for him from 1987 to 1990 and then served as his assistant coach for a number of years.