Seth Littrell
Offensive coordinator across 2 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.
Seth Littrell
Followed Dan McCarney. Seth Littrell moved North Texas from Regional Program V to Regional Program IV in 7 seasons.
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 Regional Program in his 1st career season — faster than 20% of the 925 FBS coaches who have ever reached Regional Program (rank #1 of 925 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.
Just 1–5 against Skip Holtz.
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
11th-best North Texas tenure of 16 by the numbers.
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
Followed Dan McCarney (2011–2015) · succeeded by Eric Morris (2023–2025).
| Season | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||||
| Record | 5–8 | 9–5 | 9–4 | 4–8 | 4–6 | 6–7 | 7–6 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | L bowl | L bowl | — | L bowl | CFP loss | L bowl | |
| Recruiting rank | #102 | #115 | #101 | #75 | #68 | #80 | #116 | |
| Style — pass rate | ||||||||
| Pass rate | 51.3 | 50.0 | 52.3 | 53.4 | 43.1 | 38.1 | 44.5 | |
| Coordinators | ||||||||
| OC | Graham Harrell | Graham Harrell | Graham Harrell | Bodie Reeder / Tommy Mainord | Tommy Mainord / Mike Bloesch | Tommy Mainord / Mike Bloesch | Tommy Mainord / Mike Bloesch | |
| DC | Mike Ekeler / Troy Reffett | Troy Reffett | Troy Reffett | Troy Reffett | Clint Bowen | Phil Bennett | Jim Gush / Phil Bennett | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||||
| Offense | 25 | 80 | 54 | 20 | 75 | 44 | 85 | |
| Defense | 56 | 18 | 55 | 32 | 6 | 75 | 10 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | ||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 50.2 | 48.1 | 49.7 | 49.0 | 38.9 | 29.2 | 39.8 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 35.6 | 40.8 | 51.1 | 51.6 | 31.0 | 26.0 | 36.8 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 41.9 | 42.2 | 34.8 | 36.1 | 39.4 | 58.7 | 42.5 | |
A typical amount of portal roster-building.
Brings in smaller-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
1 NFL Draft pick: Jaelon Darden (2021)
1 player-season honored (All-America / national award): Jaelon Darden (2020)