Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 5-3
2011Fiesta BowlL 38-41
2012Rose BowlW 20-14
2013Rose BowlL 20-24
2014Foster Farms BowlW 45-21
2015Rose BowlW 45-16
2016Sun BowlW 25-23
2017Alamo BowlL 37-39
2018Sun BowlW 14-13
Report card
Above the median on both sides of the ball — 67th percentile offense, 56th percentile defense.
Stanford, every completed season graded against the whole field, then averaged.
Offense
Defense
Each season is his team’s percentile among every team with that stat (the share it beat), averaged over his completed seasons here; a mid-season takeover year and the season in progress aren’t graded. Letters: A+ 90th percentile and up, A 80, B+ 70, B 60, B− 50, C+ 45, C 40, C− 30, D 15, F below.
Fans
No fan talk about him on our list yet. His record is on Career.
Stats
Big games
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.
15-8 against his rivals. Just 1-5 against Kyle Whittingham.
ATS is his record against the spread: did his team beat the closing betting line, winning by more than it or losing by less? Lines start in 2013; a dash means fewer than 6 of those games had one. One-score games carry no spread record: a big favorite that wins a close game has almost always failed to cover, so that number would say nothing about the coach.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
Defining games during this era
From our list of the 50 most defining games of the Playoff era, ranked by how much each game mattered, not by date.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Ran more than the situation called for under Bloomgren; passed more under Pritchard.
8,608 run and pass snaps at Stanford, 2011–2022, his own games, one row per offensive coordinator. Each cell is how much more often he passed than the rest of FBS did in the same situation (field zone, down, distance, score, quarter, same season), in percentage points.
Pass rate, stint by stint
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next, against the FBS-wide average of 41% pass. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 449 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2004–2025.
Building the roster
Five numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
His 5 ranked Stanford classes of his own have averaged #30 nationally — best #19, worst #51.
His class — he had the full signing cycle
Rank is each signing class’s national recruiting rank (#1 is best). Only a class he had a full signing cycle to build counts as his.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2022 roster arrived on his watch — 109 of 109 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 0% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
Everyone he has brought in, 2011–2022Counting players who have since left: 0% of the 56 arrivals we can classify came through the portal.
This tenure spans the 2021 transfer-portal tracking floor: seasons before 2021 structurally cannot be classified portal-vs-not (they land in 'unknown' below), so the portal-share figure understates how many pre-2021 arrivals might have been transfers under the pre-portal-tracking transfer rules.
“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.
Size up front
Size up front
Offensive linemen on his Stanford rosters have averaged within a few pounds of the FBS average (2011–2022).
Average listed weight of every offensive lineman on each season’s roster, holdovers included, against every FBS roster that season (2010 on; a program needs 3+ seasons under him to appear). Weights are the ones programs publish, and programs list differently. This describes size only — not scheme, and not quality.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 52 of 204 signees (25%) across his 2011–2022 tenure, drawn from 34 states in all. Next: TX (26).
31% of his signees come from CA and its 3 border states (AZ 8, OR 3, NV 1).
- median hometown distance
- 1,465 mi
- within 100 mi
- 3%
- within 500 mi
- 28%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 59%
The map counts signed recruits across his tenure; the distance figures cover his current roster, transfers and walk-ons included. Two different groups, kept separate on purpose.
The NFL pipeline
The NFL pipeline
players drafted into the NFL off his teams here. He brought in 33 of them himself; 7 arrived under Jim Harbaugh. 8 more can’t be traced to who brought them in (no roster record). 6 went in the first round.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | R3.31 | Michael Wilson | Wide Receiver |  Arizona Cardinals | |
| 2023 | R5.23 | Kyu Blu Kelly | Cornerback |  Baltimore Ravens | |
| 2023 | R6.11 | Tanner McKee | Quarterback |  Philadelphia Eagles | |
| 2023 | R6.20 | Elijah Higgins | Wide Receiver |  Miami Dolphins | |
| 2023 | R7.41 | Kendall Williamson | Cornerback |  Chicago Bears | |
| 2022 | R5.07 | Thomas Booker | Defensive Tackle |  Houston Texans | |
| 2021 | R2.13 | Walker Little | Offensive Tackle |  Jacksonville Jaguars | |
| 2021 | R3.03 | Davis Mills | Quarterback | Houston Texans |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | R3.12 | Paulson Adebo | Cornerback |  New Orleans Saints | |
| 2021 | R4.09 | Drew Dalman | Center |  Atlanta Falcons | |
| 2021 | R5.35 | Simi Fehoko | Wide Receiver |  Dallas Cowboys | |
| 2020 | R4.27 | Colby Parkinson | Tight End |  Seattle Seahawks | |
| 2020 | R7.19 | Casey Toohill | Defensive End | Philadelphia Eagles | |
| 2019 | R2.25 | JJ Arcega-Whiteside | Wide Receiver | Philadelphia Eagles | |
| 2019 | R3.25 | Bobby Okereke | Outside Linebacker |  Indianapolis Colts | |
| 2019 | R4.10 | Bryce Love | Running Back |  Washington Redskins | |
| 2019 | R5.25 | Jake Bailey | Punter |  New England Patriots | |
| 2019 | R6.03 | Kaden Smith | Tight End |  San Francisco 49ers | |
| 2018 | R3.04 | Justin Reid | Safety | Houston Texans | |
| 2018 | R3.32 | Harrison Phillips | Defensive Tackle |  Buffalo Bills | |
| 2018 | R4.37 | Dalton Schultz | Tight End | Dallas Cowboys | |
| 2018 | R6.40 | Peter Kalambayi | Outside Linebacker | Houston Texans | |
| 2017 | R1.03 | Solomon Thomas | Defensive Tackle | San Francisco 49ers | |
| 2017 | R1.08 | Christian McCaffrey | Running Back |  Carolina Panthers | |
| 2016 | R1.28 | Joshua Garnett | Offensive Guard | San Francisco 49ers | |
| 2016 | R3.18 | Austin Hooper | Tight End | Atlanta Falcons | |
| 2016 | R4.33 | Blake Martinez | Inside Linebacker |  Green Bay Packers | |
| 2016 | R5.23 | Kevin Hogan | Quarterback |  Kansas City Chiefs | |
| 2016 | R6.25 | Kyle Murphy | Offensive Tackle | Green Bay Packers | |
| 2015 | R1.13 | Andrus Peat | Offensive Tackle |  New Orleans Saints | |
| 2015 | R2.32 | Jordan Richards | Safety | New England Patriots | |
| 2015 | R3.16 | Alex Carter | Cornerback |  Detroit Lions | |
| 2015 | R3.29 | Henry Anderson | Defensive End | Indianapolis Colts | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
| 2015 | R3.30 | Ty Montgomery | Wide Receiver | Green Bay Packers | |
| 2015 | R5.15 | David Parry | Defensive Tackle | Indianapolis Colts | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
| 2014 | R2.15 | Trent Murphy | Outside Linebacker | Washington Redskins | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
| 2014 | R4.40 | Cameron Fleming | Offensive Tackle | New England Patriots | Estimated |
| 2014 | R5.05 | David Yankey | Offensive Guard |  Minnesota Vikings | Estimated |
| 2014 | R5.22 | Ed Reynolds | Safety | Philadelphia Eagles | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
| 2014 | R6.28 | Tyler Gaffney | Running Back | Carolina Panthers | Estimated |
| 2014 | R7.16 | Ben Gardner | Defensive End | Dallas Cowboys | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
| 2013 | R2.03 | Zach Ertz | Tight End | Philadelphia Eagles | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
| 2013 | R4.36 | Levine Toilolo | Tight End | Atlanta Falcons | recruited under Jim Harbaugh |
| 2013 | R5.07 | Stepfan Taylor | Running Back | Arizona Cardinals | Estimated |
| 2012 | R1.01 | Andrew Luck | Quarterback | Indianapolis Colts | Estimated |
| 2012 | R1.24 | David DeCastro | Offensive Guard |  Pittsburgh Steelers | Estimated |
| 2012 | R2.02 | Coby Fleener | Tight End | Indianapolis Colts | Estimated |
| 2012 | R2.10 | Jonathan Martin | Offensive Tackle |  Miami Dolphins | Estimated |
A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.
News
No outlet on our list has written about him by name yet. His record is on Career.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Builder meaningfully raised a program that wasn't one
1st-best Stanford tenure of 20 by the numbers.
Followed Jim Harbaugh (2007–2010) · succeeded by Troy Taylor (2023–2024).
| Season | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||||||||
| Record | 11-2 | 12-2 | 11-3 | 8-5 | 12-2 | 10-3 | 9-5 | 9-4 | 4-8 | 4-2 | 3-9 | 3-9 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | W bowl | L bowl | W bowl | W bowl | W bowl | L bowl | W bowl | — | — | — | — | |
| Coordinators | |||||||||||||
| OC | — | — | — | Mike Bloomgren | Mike Bloomgren | Mike Bloomgren | Mike Bloomgren | Tavita Pritchard | Tavita Pritchard | Tavita Pritchard | Tavita Pritchard | Tavita Pritchard | |
| DC | — | — | — | Lance Anderson | Lance Anderson | Lance Anderson | Lance Anderson | Lance Anderson | Lance Anderson | Lance Anderson | Lance Anderson | Lance Anderson | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||||||||
| Offense | 98 | 62 | 76 | 71 | 93 | 56 | 80 | 70 | 48 | 82 | 14 | 20 | |
| Defense | 74 | 87 | 77 | 95 | 38 | 64 | 27 | 48 | 24 | 7 | 8 | 16 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 41.7 | 33.4 | 31.4 | 37.3 | 28.2 | 33.4 | 32.3 | 48.0 | 50.6 | 45.9 | 53.8 | 51.2 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 48.3 | 39.7 | 34.0 | 43.6 | 30.1 | 30.9 | 43.1 | 42.9 | 46.6 | 37.9 | 48.2 | 46.8 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 21.9 | 25.6 | 13.8 | 22.2 | 29.7 | 14.0 | 22.7 | 22.9 | 7.9 | 16.7 | 28.6 | 22.2 | |
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on offense and underperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
1 player-season honored (All-America / national award): Joshua Karty (2022)
All-time wins
Wins at programs this site tracks, 1936–present — one consistent count for every coach, not each program’s own historically reported total.
2nd-most wins by a Pac-12 coach
Was he good?
A mixed record — ahead of expectations by some measures here, behind by others. The honest read is that it depends which lens you use.
+15.5 pts at Stanford · #111 of 1290 · top quarter