List of presidents of the American Football Coaches Association
Presidents of the American Football Coaches Association are:
| Year | President | School |
| 1921 | United States Military Academy | |
| 1922 | United States Military Academy | |
| 1923 | University of Pennsylvania | |
| 1924 | Rice University | |
| 1925 | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | |
| 1926 | Cornell University | |
| 1927 | University of New Hampshire | |
| 1928 | Princeton University | |
| 1929 | Pennsylvania State University | |
| 1930 | Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| 1931 | Manhattan College | |
| 1932 | Yale University | |
| 1933 | Vanderbilt University | |
| 1934 | University of Nebraska | |
| 1935 | University of Minnesota | |
| 1936 | Brown University | |
| 1937 | University of Michigan | |
| 1938 | University of Wisconsin–Madison | |
| 1939 | Columbia University | |
| 1940 | Indiana University | |
| 1941 | University of Michigan | |
| 1942 | Southern Methodist University | |
| 1943 | Southern Methodist University | |
| 1944 | Temple University | |
| 1945 | Temple University | |
| 1946 | Harvard University | |
| 1947 | University of Maine | |
| 1948 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | |
| 1949 | Texas Christian University | |
| 1950 | University of California, Berkeley | |
| 1951 | Harvard University | |
| 1952 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| 1953 | University of Missouri | |
| 1954 | University of Pennsylvania | |
| 1955 | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | |
| 1956 | Rice University | |
| 1957 | Cornell University | |
| 1958 | University of Oklahoma | |
| 1959 | University of Georgia | |
| 1960 | Pennsylvania State University | |
| 1961 | Stanford University | |
| 1962 | Duke University | |
| 1963 | Ohio State University | |
| 1964 | University of Oregon | |
| 1965 | Texas Christian University | |
| 1966 | Trinity College | |
| 1967 | Syracuse University | |
| 1968 | University of Minnesota | |
| 1969 | University of South Carolina | |
| 1970 | University of Arkansas | |
| 1971 | North Carolina State University | |
| 1972 | University of Alabama | |
| 1973 | University of Southern California | |
| 1974 | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | |
| 1975 | University of Texas at Austin | |
| 1976 | Grambling State University | |
| 1977 | United States Air Force Academy | |
| 1978 | Yale University | |
| 1979 | Louisiana State University | |
| 1980 | University of Maryland, College Park | |
| 1981 | University of Delaware | |
| 1982 | Amherst College | |
| 1983 | University of Michigan | |
| 1984 | Wittenberg University | |
| 1985 | University of Georgia | |
| 1986 | San Francisco State University | |
| 1987 | Brigham Young University | |
| 1988 | Harvard University | |
| 1989 | University of Washington | |
| 1990 | University of Tennessee | |
| 1991 | Widener University | |
| 1992 | Ohio State University | |
| 1993 | University of Iowa | |
| 1994 | Central College | |
| 1995 | Florida A&M University | |
| 1996 | United States Air Force Academy | |
| 1997 | West Virginia University | |
| 1998 | Eastern Kentucky University | |
| 1999 | Shippensburg University | |
| 2000 | University at Albany, SUNY | |
| 2001 | Hampton University | |
| 2002 | University of Minnesota | |
| 2003 | University of Tennessee | |
| 2004 | Rice University | |
| 2005 | Moravian College | |
| 2006 | Northwest Missouri State University | |
| 2007 | Carson-Newman College | |
| 2008 | University of Washington | |
| 2009 | San Jose State University | |
| 2010 | Mount Union College | |
| 2011 | Montana State University | |
| 2012 | Harvard University | |
| 2013 | University of Texas at Austin | |
| 2014 | Ithaca College | |
| 2015 | University of Cincinnati | |
| 2016 | Ashland University | |
| 2017 | University of Arizona | |
| 2018 | Georgetown College |
According to AFCA tradition officers move up one office each year until becoming president.