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Dave Christensen

Followed Joe Glenn. Dave Christensen held Wyoming at Regional Program IV for 5 seasons.

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2009–2013 · 1 stint
Wyoming
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Career arc

His real stature score, season by season, across every program he’s coached — so a stretch that stays in one tier the whole way can still climb or sink on the line, not just flatten out. Node color marks the tier reached. Which program a stretch belongs to is carried by the shaded lane behind it.

Stature score reached, by season of his head-coaching careerWYOMINGRegional Programthe building-block levelWyoming, 2009: 7-6, Regional Program IV2009Wyoming, 2010: 3-9, Regional Program IV2010Wyoming, 2011: 8-5, Regional Program IV2011Wyoming, 2012: 4-8, Regional Program IV2012Wyoming, 2013: 5-7, Regional Program IV2013-0.4One point per coached season, in career order; dashed segments are program changes — spacing is not proportional to calendar time

Reached Regional Program in his 1st career season — faster than 20% of the 925 FBS coaches who have ever reached Regional Program (rank #1 of 925 by seasons-to-arrival).

Wyoming, 5 seasons
−0.4
Regional Program IV → Regional Program IV.

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

4–1 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Chris Petersen.

Rivalry record
4–1
80.0% · 1 rival
One-score games
14–8
63.6% · margin ≤8
vs. Blue Blood or better
0–3
0.0%
Rivalry ledger
Colorado State4–180%
The toughest matchup
vs. Chris Petersen0–4
4 meetings, 2010–2013
’10 L’11 L’12 L’13 L
0% win rate across a real, 4-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.
Performance by opponent class
Blue Blood
0–3 0.0%
Power Program
0–13 0.0%
National Program
2–5 28.6%
Regional Program
18–13 58.1%

Coaching career

2009–2013
Wyomingcaretaker
Regional Program IV → Regional Program IV
Dave Christensen held Wyoming at Regional Program IV for 5 seasons.

18th-best Wyoming tenure of 22 by the numbers.

Followed Joe Glenn (2003–2008) · succeeded by Craig Bohl (2014–2023).

Where the roster comes from, by position
Grows Edge from high school
100%
#191 of 208 stints
Grows Running back from high school
100%
#196 of 208 stints

3 NFL Draft picks: Christopher Prosinski (2011), Marqueston Huff (2014), Robert Herron (2014)

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