Alex Mortensen

• Won a national title on Alabama’s 2017 staff (analyst) · the staff · source
• Won a national title on Alabama’s 2020 staff (football analyst) · the staff · source

The champions’ staffs from 1990 on, as the schools listed them that season: Staff lists: Drew Hoover’s how-many-rings (MIT), from the schools’ media guides and staff pages. Roles as the source words them.

Mortensen’s teams went for it on 23% of fourth downs and on 40% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 41% of plays and took 27.0 seconds a play, in 2026.

His seasons as a head coach from 2004 on, from ESPN’s play by play: fourth downs where he went for it out of every fourth-down decision; how often he went when SportsDataverse’s fourth-down model said going for it was the better call; the share of his offense’s plays that were passes; seconds of game clock per offensive play (lower is faster); and expected points added per offensive play (EPA, a measure of how much each play moved the offense toward points). The season in progress counts its games so far. SportsDataverse’s coach tendencies, from ESPN’s play by play; the EPA and the fourth-down model are SportsDataverse’s.