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Brian Hartline
Brian Hartline went 5–2 as a head coach, 2026, at South Florida. Wikipedia’s season articles record one season differently (2026, 4–2); by them his record is 4–2. Share
- Record
- 5–2 career
- Seasons
- 1
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Nov 22, 1986
- Alma mater
- Ohio State 2009
- Best season
- 2026 5–2
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | South Florida | 5–2 (Wikipedia: 4–2) |
Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conference games | 3 | 1–2 | 33% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 4 | 2–2 | 50% |
| At home | 4 | 3–1 | 75% |
| On the road | 3 | 2–1 | 67% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 5 | 4–1 | 80% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 2 | 1–1 | 50% |
His own seven games on file, 2026, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Bowling Greenseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Armyseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Delaware Stateseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Florida Internationalseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Kent Stateseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Templeseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| UTSAseries | 1 | 0–1 |
National title staffs
Every title staff- Won a national title on Ohio State’s 2024 staff (co-offensive coordinator, wide receivers coach) · 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.
Also a player: Brian Hartline’s playing career.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026–present | South Florida | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Ryan DayOhio State
Assistants who became head coaches
- Josh AldridgeLiberty
- Tim BeckCoastal Carolina
Worked under (1)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Day | Ohio State | 2023–25 | 2023–25: offensive coordinator; 2024: co-offensive coordinator |
Coached under him, later head coaches (2)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Aldridge | South Florida, 2026: defensive coordinator | Liberty | |
| Tim Beck | South Florida, 2026: offensive coordinator | Coastal Carolina |
From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.
How he coached
Hartline’s teams went for it on 18% of fourth downs and on 41% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 48% of plays and took 27.8 seconds a play, in 2026.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 7 g | 8 of 44 18% | 41% | 48% | 27.8 | +0.11 |
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.