Dennis Franchione

Dennis Franchione

Franchione at the 2015 Sun Belt Media day
Biographical details
Born	(1951-03-28) March 28, 1951 (age 73) Girard, Kansas, U.S.
Alma mater	Pittsburg State University (1973)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1973–1974	Miller HS (MO)
1975	Mulvane HS (KS) (assistant)
1976–1977	Peabody-Burns HS (KS)
1978–1980	Kansas State (WR)
1981–1982	Southwestern (KS)
1983–1984	Tennessee Tech (OC)
1985–1989	Pittsburg State
1990–1991	Southwest Texas State
1992–1997	New Mexico
1998–2000	TCU
2001–2002	Alabama
2003–2007	Texas A&M
2011–2015	Texas State
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1988–1989	Pittsburg State
Head coaching record
Overall	213–135–2
Bowls	4–3
Tournaments	5–4 (NAIA D-I playoffs) 1–1 (NCAA D-II playoffs)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1 KCAC (1982) 4 CIAC (1985–1988) 1 MIAA (1989) 2 WAC (1999–2000) 1 WAC Mountain Division (1997)
Awards
2× NAIA Division I Coach of the Year (1986–1987) 2× AFCA Regional Coach of the Year (1989–1990) Kansas Sports Hall of Fame[1]

Dennis Wayne Franchione (born March 28, 1951), also known as Coach Fran, is a retired American football coach. He is the former head football coach at Texas State University, a position he held from 1990 to 1991, when the school was known as Southwest Texas State University, and resumed from 2011 to 2015. Franchione has also served as the head football coach at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas (1981–1982), Pittsburg State University (1985–1989), the University of New Mexico (1992–1997), Texas Christian University (1998–2000), the University of Alabama (2001–2002), and Texas A&M University (2003–2007). In his 27 seasons as a head coach in college football, Franchione won eight conference championships and one divisional crown.