Tony Levine
Offensive coordinator across 2 programs, 2 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.
Tony Levine
Followed Kevin Sumlin. Tony Levine held Houston at National Program II for 3 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 National Program in his 1st career season — faster than 41% of the 675 FBS coaches who have ever reached National Program (rank #1 of 675 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.
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.
2–0 against his rivals.
Coaching career
12th-best Houston tenure of 16 by the numbers.
Followed Kevin Sumlin (2008–2011) · succeeded by Tom Herman (2015–2016).
| Season | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 5–7 | 8–5 | 7–5 | |
| Postseason | — | — | W bowl | |
| Recruiting rank | — | — | #75 | |
| Style — pass rate | ||||
| Pass rate | — | — | 47.6 | |
| Coordinators | ||||
| OC | — | — | Travis Bush | |
| DC | — | — | David Gibbs | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | — | — | 85 | |
| Defense | — | — | 68 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | 48.3 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | 39.4 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | 37.2 | |
1 NFL Draft pick: D.J. Hayden (2013)