The Maine Black Bears college football team represents the University of Maine in the Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference (CAAFC), as part of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The program has had 37 head coaches since it began play during the 1892 season. Since December 2021, Jordan Stevens has served as head coach at Maine.
Five coaches have led Maine in postseason playoff or bowl games: Harold Westerman, Tim Murphy, Tom Lichtenberg, Jack Cosgrove, Joe Harasymiak. Eighteen coaches have won conference championships: Edward N. Robinson, Frank McCoy, Edgar Wingard, and Tommy Hughitt each had won one; John Wells Farley, Thomas J. Riley, and James A. Baldwin each won two; Harold Westerman won seven; and Fred Brice won nine as a member of the Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association. George E. Allen and William C. Kenyon each won one and Brice won six as a member of the New England Conference. David M. Nelson, Walter Abbott, Ron Rogerson, Murphy, and Lichtenberg each won one, and Westerman won four as a member of the Yankee Conference. Cosgrove won two as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference, and Cosgrove and Harasymiak each won one as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association.
Cosgrove is the leader in seasons coached, with 23 years as head coach and in games coached (263) and won (128). Riley has the highest winning percentage of those who have coaced more than one game at 0.781. Chesley Johnston and Wildes Veazie have the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with 0.000. Of the 37 different head coaches who have led the Black Bears, Edward N. Robinson has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
