Odus Mitchell

Head coach, North Texas, 1953 to 1966

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

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.

Just 1-5 against Glenn Dobbs.

One-score games

27-25-7

45.8% · margin ≤8

The toughest matchupNemesis

vs. Glenn Dobbs1-5

6 meetings, 1961–1966

’61 W’62 L’63 L’64 L’65 L’66 L

Performance by opponent class

Power Program

0-5 0.0%

National Program

11-23 32.4%

Regional Program

23-19 54.8%

Building the roster

Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Roster ownership
2The NFL pipeline

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1953-1966) 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.

The NFL pipeline

at least7Drafted

players drafted into the NFL off his teams here (a floor — see the note below). None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here.

At least 7 — his 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 seasons predate the modern 7-round draft, so this table’s pre-1994 pick counts are a floor, not a full count, for those seasons.

0 roster-verified · 7 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Player	Pos	NFL team	Note
1967	R3.16	Vidal Carlin	Quarterback	St. Louis Cardinals	Estimated
1967	R7.13	John Love	Wide Receiver	Washington Redskins	Estimated
1966	R5.77				Estimated
1964	R7.85				Estimated
1962	R4.43				Estimated
1960	R5.50				Estimated
1955	R2.24				Estimated

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.