Pat Fitzgerald named Michigan State head football coach

One of the winningest football coaches in Big Ten history, Pat Fitzgerald has been named head football coach at Michigan State University, MSU Vice President and Director of Athletics J Batt announced Monday.

Fitzgerald will be formally introduced as the 27th head football coach in Michigan State history at a press conference on the MSU campus on Tuesday at 3 p.m. The press conference will be televised live on the Big Ten Network and streamed live on YouTube (Michigan State Spartans Athletics).

Over 17 seasons as the head coach at Northwestern University, Fitzgerald won 110 games, while guiding the Wildcats to 10 bowl games, five AP Top 25 finishes and a pair of appearances in the Big Ten Football Championship Game after winning the Big Ten West Division title in both 2018 and 2020. He was named the 2018 Big Ten Coach of the Year, and in 2020, won the Dodd Trophy Coach of the Year Award after leading the Wildcats to a No. 10 national ranking and a win in the Citrus Bowl over Auburn.

His 110 wins rank 14th all-time for a Big Ten football coach, while his five bowl game victories rank tied for 12th among conference coaches.

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