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Head coach · Washington · belt games 2022–2024

Kalen DeBoer

422Days with the belt
1Reign started
17–1Defending it
1–0Challenging for it

Coached Washington (2022–2023) in seasons with a belt game. 19 belt games in all: 18 with the belt in hand, 1 trying to take it.

Kalen DeBoer was on a sideline for 19 belt games between 2022 and 2024, at Washington. He took the belt once and held it for 422 days across one reign, the 25th-most of any head coach in the belt’s history.

He won it on November 12, 2022, Washington 37–34 over Oregon.

His longest reign ran 422 days with Washington, beginning November 12, 2022, and was defended 17 times along the way.

Across his career he coached 17 successful defenses, and the belt changed hands under him once, when Michigan won 34–13 on January 8, 2024.

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19 games, newest first

Head coaches from the College Football Data API’s coaching records, matched by team and season. A reign counts for the coach in charge the season it began; a mid-season change isn’t split.