Kevin Wilson
Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 0-1
2015Pinstripe BowlL 41-44
Fans
No fan talk about him on our list yet. His record is on Career.
Stats
Big games
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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.
4-2 against his rivals at Indiana. Winless in 5 tries against Urban Meyer.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
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.
Signature games
These losses tie at the model's current max -- an editorial pick among a real tie, not a clean ranking.
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
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.
4-2 against his rivals. Winless in 5 tries against Urban Meyer.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
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.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Ran more than the situation called for under Jr..
1,625 run and pass snaps at Tulsa, 2023–2024, 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
Four numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
His 2 ranked Tulsa classes of his own have averaged #84 nationally — best #54, worst #114.
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 2024 roster arrived on his watch — 92 of 124 players. The other 32 are holdovers from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 13% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
Everyone he has brought in, 2023–2024Counting players who have since left: 13% of the 109 arrivals we can classify came through the portal.
“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 Indiana rosters have averaged within a few pounds of the FBS average (2011–2016).
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: 26 of 50 signees (52%) across his 2023–2024 tenure, drawn from 8 states in all. Next: OK (14).
86% of his signees come from TX and its 4 border states (OK 14, AR 3).
Off this map: 2 signees to the east (DE, OH).
- median hometown distance
- 234 mi
- within 100 mi
- 31%
- within 500 mi
- 84%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 5%
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.
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.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
Followed Philip Montgomery (2015–2022) · succeeded by Tre Lamb (2025–now).
| Season | 2023 | 2024 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||
| Record | 4-8 | 3-8 | |
| Postseason | — | — | |
| Coordinators | |||
| OC | Steve Spurrier Jr. | Steve Spurrier Jr. | |
| DC | Chris Polizzi | Chris Polizzi | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||
| Offense | 43 | 7 | |
| Defense | 5 | 0 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||
| 1st-down pass% | 29.4 | 38.5 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 42.6 | 47.8 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 20.0 | 41.2 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
Brings in smaller-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
11th-best Indiana tenure of 16 by the numbers.
Followed Bill Lynch (2007–2010) · succeeded by Tom Allen (2016–2023).
| Season | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||
| Record | 1-11 | 4-8 | 5-7 | 4-8 | 6-7 | 6-6 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | — | L bowl | — | |
| Coordinators | |||||||
| OC | — | — | — | Kevin Johns | Kevin Johns | Kevin Johns | |
| DC | — | — | — | Brian Knorr | Brian Knorr | Tom Allen | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||
| Offense | 55 | 42 | 60 | 45 | 77 | 23 | |
| Defense | 9 | 25 | 2 | 54 | 18 | 71 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 39.3 | 50.4 | 51.3 | 32.5 | 36.2 | 38.3 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 21.3 | 44.4 | 46.2 | 22.7 | 35.1 | 30.7 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 29.0 | 22.9 | 45.8 | 30.0 | 36.7 | 40.0 | |
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
7 NFL Draft picks: Cody Latimer (2014), Ted Bolser (2014), Tevin Coleman (2015), Jason Spriggs (2016), Jordan Howard (2016), Nate Sudfeld (2016), Dan Feeney (2017)
Was he good?
The data leans negative, where the data can separate from zero: every conclusive reading points the same way.
+3.4 pts at Indiana · #474 of 1290 · middle halfModel fit as of 2026-09-04.