The Florida A&M Rattlers college football team represents Florida A&M University in the East Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), as part of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The program has had 21 head coaches, and 1 interim head coach, since it began play during the 1907 season. Since December 2025, Quinn Gray has served as Florida A&M's head coach.

Six coaches have led Florida A&M in postseason bowl games: William M. Bell, Jake Gaither, Rudy Hubbard, Ken Riley, Billy Joe, and Willie Simmons. Seven coaches also won conference championships: Gaither captured twenty, Bell three, and Hubbard two, as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference; Joe captured five, Riley two, and Taylor one as a member of Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference; Simmons captured one as a member of the SWAC. Gaither captured eight and Bell and Hubbard both captured two black college football national championships. Gaither also won the 1962 AP small college national championship and Hubbard won the 1978 NCAA Division I-AA football national championship.

Gaither is the leader in seasons coached, with 25 years as head coach and games coached (243), won (203), and highest winning percentage at .844. Of the 19 different head coaches who have led the Rattlers, Gaither, Hubbard, Joe, and Joe Taylor have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

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Coaches + List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards No. Name Season(s) GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL PT DC CC NC Awards 1 1907–19091920–19251930 — — — — — 2 1926–1928 — — — — — 3 1929 — — — — — 4 1931–1933 — — — — — 5 1934–1935 — — — — — 6 1936–1942 —  – 19381942 — 7 1943–1944 — — 8 1945–1969  – 19501952195319541957195919611962 NAIA Coach of the Year (1969) 9 1970 — 10 1971 — 11 1972–1973 — 12 1974–1985 —  – 19771978 — 13 1986–1993 — — 14 1994–2004 — – 19982001 — 15 2005–2007 — — — — — 16 2008–2012 — — — — — 17 2012–2014 — — — — — Int 2014 — — — — — 18 2015–2017 — — — — — 19 2018–2023 — — —  – 2023 — 20 2024–2025 — — — — 21 2026–present — — — —

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