List of Washburn Ichabods head football coaches

The Washburn Ichabods football program is a college football team that represents Washburn University in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association, a part of NCAA Division II.

The team has had 41 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1891.

[1] The current coach is Zach Watkins who first took the position for the 2025 season.

[2] Statistics correct as of the end of the 2023 college football season.

# denotes interim head coach

Bennie Owen coached at Washburn for the 1900 season before going to the Bethany Terrible Swedes and later the Oklahoma Sooners . He ended his career with a record of 155–60–19 and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.