LAS VEGAS — BYU football alum Andy Reid, head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, led his club to a 25-22 overtime victory over San Francisco in Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas on Sunday, winning back-to-back titles and giving Reid four career Super Bowl rings, inclulding three as a head coach.
With his four career championships, Reid equals current BYU director of athletics Tom Holmoe among Cougar alumni with the most NFL titles. Holmoe, a former NFL defensive back and coach with San Francisco, won three championships as a player and a fourth as a coach with the 49ers.
Reid and the Chiefs are the first NFL franchise to win back-to-back titles since Bill Belichick and the Patriots nearly 20 years ago in the 2004 and 2005 Super Bowls.
Reid a former BYU offensive lineman (1978-80) and graduate assistant coach (1982), has led the Chiefs to the Super Bowl in four of the last five years (2020, 2021, 2023, 2024). With Kansas City's 2020 Super Bowl victory over San Francisco and its triumph in this year's rematch, Reid and the Chiefs have hoisted the Vince Lombardi Trophy three times in the last five years, making Reid just the fifth NFL head coach to lead his teams to at least three titles.
Overall, Reid has gone to the Super Bowl seven times with three different teams (Chiefs, Eagles, Packers). As the head coach of the Eagles, Reid led Philadelphia to Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005 and was part of two Super Bowl teams with the Packers as the quarterbacks coach and assistant head coach under another former Cougar coach, Mike Holmgren (BYU quarterbacks coach, 1982-85). Green Bay played in to back-to-back Super Bowls with Reid and Holmgren in 1997 and 1998, winning the title in 1997.
On the other side of Sunday's Super Bowl LVIII matchup was NFL All-Pro and former BYU linebacker Fred Warner. It was the second Super Bowl appearance for one of the NFL's best defenders, and the second time Warner came up short to Reid and the Chiefs, losing Super Bowl LIV, 31-20.
Former tight end Matt Bushman also earned a second title with the Chiefs as a practice squad player with the team since 2021.
Overall, BYU has had 44 former Cougars make 78 total appearances in the Super Bowl. Reid, Holmgren, and Brian Billick are all former Cougar players or coaches who have won a Super Bowl as a head coach in the NFL.