Joe Loth was named Southern Connecticut State University's seventh football head coach in program history on May 6, 2025.
Loth comes to Southern after serving as Western Connecticut State University's head coach for the last 12 seasons. Loth was hired in 2012, inheriting a program that finished the previous season on a 21-game losing streak. Since his initial season, Loth did not have another losing season and in 2018 became the program's all-time winningest head coach.
Loth guided a WestConn program that was ranked first or second in scoring and total offense in the Massachusetts State Athletic Conference (MASCAC) each year during his tenure as head coach. The 2023 program averaged a program-record 49.2 points per game as well as a 34.88 points per game average over the last three seasons. Academically, WestConn ranked first or second in MASCAC Academic All-Conference honors each season.
Through 2024, Loth compiled an all-time record of 77-45 (.631) at WestConn. Last season he led the Wolves to a 9-2 record and a 45-14 win against Alfred University in the ECAC Asa S. Bushnell Bowl. In 12 seasons, Loth led the program to six postseason appearances including the 2023 NCAA Championship Tournament.
Prior to being tabbed as Western's head coach, he led his alma mater Otterbein College for nine seasons, building a 49-42 (.538) mark, which is the second-most wins for a head coach in Otterbein history. Prior to Otterbein, he served as the head coach at Kean College. In 24 seasons as a head coach, Loth owns a 133-109 (.550) lifetime record.
At Otterbein, Loth led the program to its only postseason appearance (2008) in program history and was named the OAC and Ohio Coach of the Year. He inherited a program that had one winning season prior to his arrival and just two since his departure. Similarly, he took the reins at Kean after that program lost 14-straight games and noted improvement in each of his three seasons. Prior to Kean, he held assistant coach positions at University of Rhode Island, Capital University, WestConn and Southern Methodist University.
Loth graduated from Otterbein in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in business administration and later completed a master's degree in business administration at WestConn in 2016.
