N.C. State fires football coach Dave Doeren midway through his 14th season
North Carolina State head coach Dave Doeren watches from the sideline against Wake Forest during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. Credit: AP/Karl B DeBlaker
N.C. State fired coach Dave Doeren on Saturday, ending a 14-season tenure in which he set the program’s all-time wins mark but could not make a breakthrough leap to higher success.
The school announced the decision less than a day after the Wolfpack lost on the road against a Stanford team picked to finish last in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Doeren, 54, had a 98-74 record with the Wolfpack and became the program’s winningest coach with a 2023 victory over Miami. He entered this year as the fourth-longest-tenured coach in the Football Bowl Subdivision and second in the ACC behind Clemson’s Dabo Swinney.
