The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Jim Hofher

Followed Craig Cirbus. Jim Hofher held Buffalo at Regional Program VI for 5 seasons.

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2001–2005 · 1 stint

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.

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).

Buffalo, 5 seasons

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Regional Program VI → Regional Program VI.

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.

0–5 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Bob Pruett.

Rivalry record

0–5

0.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

2–6

25.0% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Akron0–50%

The toughest matchup

vs. Bob Pruett0–4

4 meetings, 2001–2004

’01 L’02 L’03 L’04 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

Power Program

0–3 0.0%

National Program

0–12 0.0%

Regional Program

8–31 20.5%

Coaching career

2001–2005

Buffalocaretaker

Regional Program VI → Regional Program VI

Jim Hofher held Buffalo at Regional Program VI for 5 seasons.

11th-best Buffalo tenure of 11 by the numbers.

Followed Craig Cirbus (1999–2000) · succeeded by Turner Gill (2006–2009).

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