Chris Thomsen

Chris Thomsen went 1–⁠0 as a head coach in the games on file: 2012 at Texas Tech (interim, bowl game). His full head-coaching career isn’t in our records.

Record
1–⁠0 games on file
Seasons
1
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
2012 8–⁠5

Season by season

SeasonSchoolRecordBowlAP final
2012Texas Tech interim, bowl game1–⁠0Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas W

Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Bowls and playoffs11–⁠0
Decided by 8 points or fewer11–⁠0
At neutral sites11–⁠0
As our Elo’s favorite11–⁠0

His own one games on file, 2012, 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

OpponentGamesRecord
Minnesotaseries11–⁠0

Coaching tree

Chris Thomsen

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (5)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Chad ScottTexas Tech, 2012: running backs coachWest Virginia
Neal BrownTexas Tech, 2012: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coachTroy, West Virginia, North Texas
Robert PruntyTexas Tech, 2012: outside linebackers and defensive ends coachHargrave Military Academy (VA), Hampton
Scott ParrTexas Tech, 2012: offensive quality control coachNavarro, Texas A&M–Kingsville
Sonny CumbieTexas Tech, 2012: wide receivers coachTexas Tech, Louisiana Tech
Other assistants under him (2)
CoachWith him
Art KaufmanTexas Tech, 2012: defensive coordinator and linebackers coach
John LovettTexas Tech, 2012: defensive backs coach

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.