Joe Moorhead
Followed Tom Arth. Joe Moorhead moved Akron from Regional Program VI to Regional Program V in 5 seasons.
In his own words
Awaiting signal — no quotes collected from this staff yet this cycle.
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 Power Program in his 1st career season — faster than 57% of the 395 FBS coaches who have ever reached Power Program (rank #1 of 395 by seasons-to-arrival).
Style position and drift
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 258 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2014–2025.
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.
5–4 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Chuck Martin.
His own effect, isolated
A statistical estimate of this coach’s contribution to team performance, separated from that season’s roster talent, returning production, and his coordinators — pooled across his whole head-coaching career.
Model fit as of 2026-09-04.
Coaching career
8th-best Akron tenure of 9 by the numbers.
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on defense.
Followed Tom Arth (2019–2021).
| Season | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||
| Record | 2–10 | 2–10 | 4–8 | 5–7 | 0–0 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Recruiting rank | #122 | #108 | #101 | #128 | #132 | |
| Style — pass rate | ||||||
| Pass rate | 56.8 | 55.1 | 55.1 | 48.4 | 46.8 | |
| Coordinators | ||||||
| OC | — | Billy Fessler | — | — | — | |
| DC | Tim Tibesar | Tim Tibesar | Tim Tibesar | Tim Tibesar | Tim Tibesar | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||
| Offense | 23 | 9 | 18 | 19 | 39 | |
| Defense | 39 | 48 | 44 | 61 | 11 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | ||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 62.2 | 54.5 | 54.2 | 42.5 | 47.7 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 48.8 | 36.1 | 56.1 | 49.5 | 50.0 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 34.1 | 33.3 | 29.4 | 28.6 | — | |
A typical amount of portal roster-building.
Brings in smaller-than-position-typical players than most.
A typical class-year mix of incoming transfers.
AI Narratives — “Akron — stat check”.
1st-best Mississippi State tenure of 20 by the numbers.
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
Followed Dan Mullen (2009–2017) · succeeded by Mike Leach (2020–2022).
| Season | 2018 | 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||
| Record | 8–5 | 6–7 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | L bowl | |
| Recruiting rank | #27 | #24 | |
| Style — pass rate | |||
| Pass rate | 38.6 | 37.3 | |
| Coordinators | |||
| OC | Luke Getsy | Luke Getsy | |
| DC | Bob Shoop | Bob Shoop | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||
| Offense | 67 | 80 | |
| Defense | 99 | 45 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | |||
| 1st-down pass% | 38.9 | 34.2 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 31.4 | 24.0 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 32.4 | 37.0 | |
14 NFL Draft picks: Martinas Rankin (2018), Jordan Thomas (2018), Hunter Bradley (2018), Logan Cooke (2018), Jeffery Simmons (2019), Montez Sweat (2019), Johnathan Abram (2019), Elgton Jenkins (2019) + 6 more
Joe Moorhead
Offensive coordinator across 2 programs, 2 stints, before and after wearing the head-coach hat — every season measured on the same axis, whether he personally ran the unit or someone else did.