Lou Holtz age: How old is Lou Holtz today?

Lou Holtz age: How old is Lou Holtz today? – Astute former American football player, coach, and analyst Lou Holtz is 86 years old. He was born on January 6, 1937, in Follansbee, West Virginia.

He served as the head football coach at the College of William & Mary (1969–1971), North Carolina State University (1972–1975), the New York Jets (1976), the University of Arkansas (1977–1983), the University of Minnesota (1984–1985), the University of Notre Dame (1986–1996), and the University of South Carolina (1999–2004), compiling a career college football head coaching record of 249–132–7.

Holtz is the only college football coach to lead six different programs to bowl games and the only coach to guide four different programs to the final top 20 rankings.

Holtz worked as a TV college football analyst for CBS Sports in the 1990s, then for ESPN from 2005 until 2015, after he retired from coaching. Holtz was inducted into the Collegiate Football Hall of Fame on May 1, 2008.

Holtz was brought up as a Roman Catholic in East Liverpool, Ohio. After graduating from East Liverpool High School, he enrolled at Kent State University and became a member of the fraternity Delta Upsilon. He earned a history degree from Kent State in 1959.

At the time of his college graduation, Holtz received a commission as a Field Artillery Officer in the United States Army Reserve after completing training at Kent State’s Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. In 1960, he started working as a graduate assistant at Iowa, where he also earned his master’s degree.

He was married to Beth Barcus from July 22, 1961, until her death from cancer on June 30, 2020.

He has four children: Skip Holtz, Kevin Holtz, Elizabeth Messaglia, and Luanne Altenbaumer.