Tim Brewster
Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 0-2
2008Insight BowlL 21-42
2009Insight BowlL 13-14
Fans
No fan talk about him on our list yet. His record is on Career.
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.
0-6 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Bret Bielema.
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.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Called about what the situation called for.
114 run and pass snaps at Charlotte, 2024–2024, 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
Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2024 roster arrived on his watch — 95 of 118 players. The other 23 are holdovers from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 27% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 4 of 21 signees (19%) across his 2024–2024 tenure, drawn from 11 states in all. Next: FL (3).
43% of his signees come from GA and its 5 border states (FL 3, NC 2).
Off this map: 2 signees to the west (CA 2).
- median hometown distance
- 224 mi
- within 100 mi
- 29%
- within 500 mi
- 80%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 3%
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 Biff Poggi (2023–2024) · succeeded by Tim Albin (2025–now).
Underperforms his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
Brings in bigger-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
8th-best Minnesota tenure of 15 by the numbers.
Followed Glen Mason (1997–2006) · succeeded by Jeff Horton (2010).
| Season | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||
| Record | 1-11 | 7-6 | 6-7 | 1-6 | |
| Postseason | — | L bowl | L bowl | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||
| Offense | 41 | 37 | 22 | 29 | |
| Defense | 0 | 11 | 53 | 19 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||
| 1st-down pass% | 47.7 | 50.8 | 45.9 | 37.3 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 30.0 | 33.3 | 36.9 | 30.2 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 34.2 | 27.8 | 25.6 | 36.4 | |
3 NFL Draft picks: Dominique Barber (2008), Eric Decker (2010), Nathan Triplett (2010)
Was he good?
The data leans negative: every conclusive reading points the same way.
-8.5 pts at Minnesota · #1166 of 1290 · bottom quarterModel fit as of 2026-09-04.