Vince Kehres

Vincent G. Kehres (born February 26, 1976) is an American football coach and former player. He currently serves as the defensive coordinator for the Syracuse Orange.

Kehres served as the head football coach at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio from 2013 to 2019. In seven seasons at the helm of the Mount Union Purple Raiders football program, he compiled a record of 95–6 and led Mount Union to two NCAA Division III Football Championship titles, in 2015 and 2017. Prior to joining Syracuse, Kehres was the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Toledo from 2020 to 2025. Kehres is the son of College Football Hall of Fame inductee Larry Kehres, who preceded him as head football coach at Mount Union.

Coaching career Kehres both played as a player and served as an assistant coach and defensive coordinator under his father. Prior to his return to Mount Union to coach in 2000, he briefly coached as an assistant for a single year at Austintown Fitch High School.

Kehres was named the head football coach at Mount Union on May 8, 2013.

On January 13, 2020, The Blade reported that Kehres was leaving Mount Union to take a position with the Toledo Rockets as a defensive coach.

In December 2025, Kehres was hired as the defensive coordinator for the Syracuse Orange.

Family Kehres is the son of Larry Kehres, who preceded him as head football coach at Mount Union. The younger Kehres and his wife, Lindsay, have three sons, Evan, Bo, and Jackson.

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