Earl Holmes

Earl Holmes went 2–⁠6 as a head coach in the games on file: 2014 at Florida A&M. His full head-coaching career isn’t in our records.

Record
2–⁠6 games on file
Seasons
1
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
2014 3–⁠9

Season by season

SeasonSchoolRecordAP final
2014Florida A&M coached eight of 12 games2–⁠6

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

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Conference games42–⁠2
Decided by 8 points or fewer21–⁠1
At home31–⁠2
On the road51–⁠4
As our Elo’s favorite11–⁠0
As our Elo’s underdog71–⁠6

His own eight games on file, 2014, 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
Howardseries11–⁠0
Savannah Stateseries11–⁠0
Coastal Carolinaseries10–⁠1
Jackson Stateseries10–⁠1
Miamiseries10–⁠1
Morgan Stateseries10–⁠1
North Carolina A&Tseries10–⁠1
Tennessee Stateseries10–⁠1

Also a player: Earl Holmes’s playing career.

Career

YearsTeamJob
2008–⁠10Florida A&MCo-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach
2011–⁠12Florida A&MDefensive coordinator and linebackers coach
2012–⁠14Florida A&MHead coach

Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.

Coaching tree

Earl Holmes

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Quinn GrayFlorida A&M, 2014: offensive coordinatorAlbany State, Florida A&M
Other assistants under him (1)
CoachWith him
Levon KirklandFlorida A&M, 2013–⁠14: linebackers 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.