The Zeitgeist List · coordinating

Mike MacIntyre

Defensive coordinator across 3 programs, 3 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.

100th — best in the country90th — elite — top 10%75th — top quarter50th — national median25th — bottom quarter0 — worst in the countryHis unit’s national rank, by season’14’15’16’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26Colorado · HEAD COACHOle MissMemphis · DCFlorida Inte…← RETURNED TO COORDINATINGOle Miss, 2019→ BECAME HEAD COACHFlorida International, 2022← RETURNED TO COORDINATINGOregon State, 2026Ole Miss ranked 26th percentile the year before he arrived○ what he walked intoOle Miss 2019: 50th percentile nationallyMemphis ranked 46th percentile the year before he arrivedMemphis 2020: 34th percentile nationallyMemphis 2021: 36th percentile nationallyOregon State ranked 55th percentile the year before he arrivedOregon State 2026: 33rd percentile nationallyColorado 2014: 18th percentile (Kent Baer ran the unit)Colorado 2015: 47th percentile (Jim Leavitt ran the unit)Colorado 2016: 85th percentile (Jim Leavitt ran the unit)Colorado 2017: 26th percentile (D. J. Eliot ran the unit)Colorado 2018: 53rd percentile (D. J. Eliot ran the unit)Florida International 2022: 13th percentile (Jovan Dewitt ran the unit)Florida International 2023: 36th percentile (Jovan Dewitt ran the unit)Florida International 2024: 77th percentile (Jovan Dewitt ran the unit)50th, career bestOle Miss, 201913th percentile
How to read this. Coordinator seasons come from coordinator_journeys(); head-coaching-era seasons are the same unit's FBS-relative percentile for those years, regardless of who coached it, read directly from staff_assignments. A role change (a “hinge”) is a fact, never a performance verdict — only the season-by-season data itself is colored by outcome.