Mark Richt
Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 10-7
Georgia’01L’02W’03W’04W’05L’06W’07W’08W’09W’10L’11L’12W’13L’14WMiami’16W’17L’18L
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2001Music City BowlL 16-20
2002Sugar BowlW 26-13
2003Capital One BowlW 34-27
2004Outback BowlW 24-21
2005Sugar BowlL 35-38
2006Chick-fil-A BowlW 31-24
2007Sugar BowlW 41-10
2008Capital One BowlW 24-12
2009Independence BowlW 44-20
2010Liberty BowlL 6-10
2011Outback BowlL 30-33
2012Capital One BowlW 45-31
2013Gator BowlL 19-24
2014Belk BowlW 37-14
Miami
2016Russell Athletic BowlW 31-14
2017Orange BowlL 24-34
2018Pinstripe BowlL 3-35Report card
Defense carries it: 89th percentile defense, above the median offense at 56th.
Miami, 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
Pick a job to see its years on their own.
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.
37-23 against his rivals at Georgia. Just 1-5 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.
4-2 against his rivals at Miami. Nobody he faced three or more times there has a winning record against him.
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.
41-25 against his rivals. Just 1-5 against Urban Meyer.
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.
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
Passed more than the situation called for under Brown.
2,505 run and pass snaps at Miami, 2016–2018, 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
Six numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
His one ranked Miami class of his own finished #8 nationally.
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.
Followed him here
Georgia→
Miami2016Players who transferred from his old program to his new one through the portal in the same year he made the move. Name-matching across data sources misses some, so every count is a floor, not an exact number.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2018 roster arrived on his watch — 95 of 119 players. The other 24 are holdovers from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2016-2018) predates 2021, when transfer-portal tracking begins in this database. Portal usage cannot be measured for this tenure at all -- this is not the same as '0% 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 Miami rosters have averaged 4 lb heavier than the FBS average (2016–2018). In the three seasons before he arrived, Miami’s line averaged 6 lb heavier than the FBS average.
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: 54 of 69 signees (78%) across his 2016–2018 tenure, drawn from 10 states in all. Next: GA (4).
86% of his signees come from FL and its 2 border states (GA 4, AL 1).
Off this map: 5 signees to the north (NJ 3, IA, others) and 4 to the west (TX 2, CA, others).
- median hometown distance
- 192 mi
- within 100 mi
- 43%
- within 500 mi
- 64%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 19%
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. Most were someone else’s recruits: 15 arrived under Al Golden; 4 he brought in himself. 1 went in the first round.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | R4.17 | Sheldrick Redwine | Safety |  Cleveland Browns | recruited under Al Golden |
| 2019 | R5.20 | Michael Jackson | Cornerback |  Dallas Cowboys | recruited under Al Golden |
| 2019 | R5.27 | Joe Jackson | Defensive End | Dallas Cowboys | |
| 2019 | R6.08 | Jaquan Johnson | Safety |  Buffalo Bills | recruited under Al Golden |
| 2019 | R6.31 | Travis Homer | Running Back |  Seattle Seahawks | |
| 2018 | R3.03 | Chad Thomas | Defensive End | Cleveland Browns | recruited under Al Golden |
| 2018 | R4.07 | Chris Herndon | Tight End |  New York Jets | recruited under Al Golden |
| 2018 | R4.12 | Mark Walton | Running Back |  Cincinnati Bengals | recruited under Al Golden |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | R5.02 | RJ McIntosh | Defensive Tackle |  New York Giants | recruited under Al Golden |
| 2018 | R6.36 | Braxton Berrios | Wide Receiver |  New England Patriots | recruited under Al Golden |
| 2018 | R7.24 | Kendrick Norton | Defensive Tackle |  Carolina Panthers | recruited under Al Golden |
| 2017 | R1.29 | David Njoku | Tight End | Cleveland Browns | recruited under Al Golden |
| 2017 | R4.06 | Rayshawn Jenkins | Safety |  Los Angeles Chargers | recruited under Al Golden |
| 2017 | R5.08 | Corn Elder | Cornerback | Carolina Panthers | recruited under Al Golden |
| 2017 | R5.37 | Danny Isidora | Offensive Guard |  Minnesota Vikings | recruited under Al Golden |
| 2017 | R6.32 | Brad Kaaya | Quarterback |  Detroit Lions | recruited under Al Golden |
| 2017 | R7.01 | Stacy Coley | Wide Receiver | Minnesota Vikings | recruited under Al Golden |
| 2017 | R7.11 | Adrian Colbert | Safety |  San Francisco 49ers | |
| 2017 | R7.22 | Marquez Williams | Fullback |  Jacksonville Jaguars |
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
In his own words
Every quote, back to August 2014
In his own words
Sometimes you don’t have to have blinding speed to go deep, and sometimes it’s just a matter of getting off the jam and getting the guy cut off
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Builder meaningfully raised a program that wasn't one · Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
9th-best Miami tenure of 20 by the numbers.
Followed Al Golden (2011–2015) · succeeded by Manny Diaz (2019–2021).
| Season | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 9-4 | 10-3 | 7-6 | |
| Postseason | W bowl | L bowl | L bowl | |
| Coordinators | ||||
| OC | Thomas Brown | Thomas Brown | Thomas Brown / Ron Dugans | |
| DC | Manny Diaz | Manny Diaz | Manny Diaz | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | 71 | 42 | 12 | |
| Defense | 86 | 69 | 94 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | 51.8 | 49.7 | 44.7 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 40.7 | 44.6 | 35.5 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 16.7 | 14.6 | 35.3 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and outperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
3rd-best Georgia tenure of 9 by the numbers.
Followed Jim Donnan (1996–2000) · succeeded by Kirby Smart (2016–now).
| Season | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||||||||||||
| Record | 8-4 | 13-1 | 11-3 | 10-2 | 10-3 | 9-4 | 11-2 | 10-3 | 8-5 | 6-7 | 10-4 | 12-2 | 8-5 | 10-3 | 9-3 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | W bowl | W bowl | W bowl | L bowl | W bowl | W bowl | W bowl | W bowl | L bowl | L bowl | W bowl | L bowl | W bowl | — | |
| Coordinators | ||||||||||||||||
| OC | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Mike Bobo | Brian Schottenheimer | |
| DC | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Jeremy Pruitt | Jeremy Pruitt | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||||||||||||
| Offense | — | — | — | 85 | 84 | 54 | 65 | 94 | 75 | 82 | 40 | 89 | 94 | 94 | 56 | |
| Defense | — | — | — | 74 | 22 | 93 | 81 | 87 | 70 | 75 | 95 | 42 | 80 | 64 | 96 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||||||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | 37.8 | 42.2 | 43.5 | 37.9 | 42.8 | 41.0 | 47.0 | 39.0 | 44.9 | 46.4 | 33.3 | 33.4 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | 35.4 | 37.7 | 37.7 | 33.7 | 42.3 | 36.4 | 38.7 | 40.6 | 41.7 | 43.5 | 33.6 | 32.4 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | 33.3 | 20.5 | 24.4 | 12.1 | 24.3 | 20.0 | 22.2 | 22.7 | 25.0 | 35.5 | 24.2 | 15.6 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and outperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
84 NFL Draft picks: Charles Grant (2002), Will Witherspoon (2002), Randy McMichael (2002), Terreal Bierria (2002), Jermaine Phillips (2002), Verron Haynes (2002), Josh Mallard (2002), Tim Wansley (2002) + 76 more
1 player-season honored (All-America / national award): David Pollack (2004)
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 all-time at Georgia
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.
+12.2 pts at Georgia · #168 of 1290 · top quarterModel fit as of 2026-09-04.