Gary Nord (born June 12, 1957) is a former American football player and coach. Nord was the head football coach as the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) from 2000 to 2003, he compiling a record of 14–34. He led the 2000 UTEP Miners football team to a Western Athletic Conference and a berth in the 2000 Humanitarian Bowl, their first bowl game since 1988, where they lost to the 2000 Boise State Broncos football team