Gary Barnett
Gary Barnett went 92–94–2 on the field as a head coach, 1982–2005, at Fort Lewis, Northwestern and Colorado; 93–93–2 officially, with 1994 (4–6–1) after forfeits. Share
Two seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1982–83 at Fort Lewis. They’re marked in the table.
- Record
- 93–93–2 official; 92–94–2 on the field
- Seasons
- 16
- Schools
- 3
- Final AP top 10
- 2 seasons
- Best season
- 1995 10–2, No. 8
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Fort Lewis * | 4–5–1 | 5th | |||
| 1983 | Fort Lewis * | 4–6 | T–4th | |||
| 1984–91: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 1992 | Northwestern | 3–8 | T–6th | |||
| 1993 | Northwestern | 2–9 | T–10th | |||
| 1994 | Northwestern | 3–7–1 (4–6–1 official) | 10th | |||
| 1995 | Northwestern | 10–2 | 1st | Rose Bowl L | 8 | |
| 1996 | Northwestern | 9–3 | T–1st | Citrus Bowl L | 15 | |
| 1997 | Northwestern | 5–7 | 8th | |||
| 1998 | Northwestern | 3–9 | 11th | |||
| 1999 | Colorado | 7–5 | 3rd (North) | Insight.com Bowl W | ||
| 2000 | Colorado | 3–8 | 4th (North) | |||
| 2001 | Colorado | 10–3 | T–1st (North) | Fiesta Bowl L | 9 | |
| 2002 | Colorado | 9–5 | 1st (North) | Alamo Bowl L | 20 | |
| 2003 | Colorado | 5–7 | T–4th (North) | |||
| 2004 | Colorado | 8–5 | T–1st (North) | Houston Bowl W | ||
| 2005 | Colorado | 7–5 | 1st (North) | Champs Sports (not coached) | ||
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. * A season our game records don’t credit to him; its record is the article’s.
Players he coached
Darnell AutryFourth in the 1995 Heisman vote
Mark MariscalConsensus All‑American, 2002- Tyler BraytonNo. 32 pick, 2003
Every player from his seasons with a Heisman top-five finish, a national award, consensus All-America honors or a first-round pick. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 61 | 19–41–1 | 32% |
| Against top-10 teams | 30 | 5–25 | 17% |
| Against rivals | 37 | 18–19 | 49% |
| Conference games | 112 | 57–55 | 51% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 6 | 2–4 | 33% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 66 | 35–30–1 | 54% |
| At home | 77 | 44–32–1 | 58% |
| On the road | 72 | 34–38 | 47% |
| At neutral sites | 19 | 6–13 | 32% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 75 | 55–20 | 73% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 93 | 29–63–1 | 32% |
His own 168 games on file, 1992–2005, 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.
Against other head coaches
| Coach | Record | Their schools | Games | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barry Alvarez 1992–2002 | 3–5 | Wisconsin | 8 | |
| Dan McCarney 1999–2005 | 5–2 | Iowa State | 7 | |
| Bill Snyder 1999–2005 | 4–3 | Kansas State | 7 | |
| Sonny Lubick 1999–2005 | 4–3 | Colorado State | 7 | |
| Hayden Fry 1992–1998 | 3–4 | Iowa | 7 | |
| Joe Paterno 1993–1998 | 1–5 | Penn State | 6 | |
| Mack Brown 2000–2005 | 1–5 | Texas | 6 | |
| Gary Pinkel 2001–2005 | 4–1 | Missouri | 5 | |
| Bill Mallory 1992–1996 | 3–2 | Indiana | 5 | |
| Lou Tepper 1992–1996 | 3–2 | Illinois | 5 |
Gary Barnett’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Wisconsinseries | 8 | 3–5 |
| Missouriseries | 7 | 6–1 |
| Kansasseries | 7 | 6–1 |
| Iowa Stateseries | 7 | 5–2 |
| Colorado Stateseries | 7 | 4–3 |
| Illinoisseries | 7 | 4–3 |
| Kansas Stateseries | 7 | 4–3 |
| Nebraskaseries | 7 | 3–4 |
National coaching awards
The awards- 1995 Northwestern: Bear Bryant Award, Bobby Dodd Award, Eddie Robinson and Walter Camp Coach
National title staffs
Every title staff- Won a national title on Colorado’s 1990 staff (assistant coach, quarterbacks, Fullbacks, part of the season) · 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.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969–71 | Missouri | Graduate assistant | |
| 1972–81 | Air Academy HS (CO) high school | Head coach | |
| 1982–83 | Fort Lewis service team | Head coach | |
| 1984–91 | Colorado | Running backs coach | |
| 1985–90 | Colorado | Quarterbacks and fullbacks coach | |
| 1991 | Colorado | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks and fullbacks coach | |
| 1992–98 | Northwestern | Head coach | |
| 1999–2005 | Colorado | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Dan DevineMissouri
- Al OnofrioMissouri
- Bill McCartneyColorado
Assistants who became head coaches
- Gregg BrandonBowling Green, Colorado School of Mines
- Jeff GenykEastern Michigan
- Kevin RamseyClark Atlanta
- Maury WaughDubuque, Simpson (IA), Lake Forest
- Mike DeBordCentral Michigan
- Ron VanderlindenMaryland
- Tim KishArizona
- Shawn WatsonWofford, Southern Illinois
- Brian CabralColorado
- Jon EmbreeColorado
- Pat FitzgeraldNorthwestern, Michigan State
- Tom CableIdaho, Oakland Raiders
- and 2 more
Worked under (3)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dan Devine | Missouri | 1969–70 | Graduate assistant | |
| Al Onofrio | Missouri | 1971 | Graduate assistant | |
| Bill McCartney | Colorado | 1984–91 | 1984–91: running backs coach; 1985–90: quarterbacks and fullbacks coach; 1991: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks and fullbacks coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (14)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gregg Brandon | Northwestern, 1992–98: wide receivers coach; Colorado, 1999–2000: wide receivers coach | Bowling Green, Colorado School of Mines | |
| Jeff Genyk | Northwestern, 1992–93: graduate assistant; 1994–95: director of football operations; 1996: special teams and inside linebackers coach; 1997: special teams and outside linebackers coach; 1998: special teams and safeties coach | Eastern Michigan | |
| Kevin Ramsey | Northwestern, 1992: defensive line and defensive backs coach | Clark Atlanta | |
| Maury Waugh | Northwestern, 1992: linebackers coach | Dubuque, Simpson (IA), Lake Forest | |
| Mike DeBord | Northwestern, 1992: offensive line coach | Central Michigan | |
| Ron Vanderlinden | Northwestern, 1992–96: defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | Maryland | |
| Tim Kish | Northwestern, 1992–96: defensive ends and linebackers coach | Arizona | |
| Shawn Watson | Northwestern, 1997–98: quarterbacks coach; Colorado, 1999: quarterbacks coach; 2000–05: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | Wofford, Southern Illinois | |
| Brian Cabral | Colorado, 1999–2005: inside linebackers coach | Colorado | |
| Jon Embree | Colorado, 1999–2000: tight ends coach; 2001–02: wide receivers coach and kickers coach | Colorado | |
| Pat Fitzgerald | Colorado, 1999: graduate assistant | Northwestern, Michigan State | |
| Tom Cable | Colorado, 1999: offensive coordinator | Idaho, Oakland Raiders | |
| Jason Eck | Colorado, 2002–03: graduate assistant | New Mexico, Idaho | |
| Mike Hankwitz | Colorado, 2004–05: defensive coordinator | Arizona, Colorado |
Other assistants under him (10)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Craig Johnson | Northwestern, 1992–96: quarterbacks coach | |
| Greg Meyer | Northwestern, 1992–98: offensive coordinator | |
| Matt Limegrover | Northwestern, 1995–96: graduate assistant | |
| Jerry Brown | Northwestern, 1997–98: co-defensive coordinator | |
| Vince Okruch | Northwestern, 1997–98: co-defensive coordinator; Colorado, 1999–2002: co-defensive coordinator; 2003: defensive coordinator | |
| Tom McMahon | Colorado, 1999–2002: co-defensive coordinator | |
| Chris Wilson | Colorado, 2000–04: defensive line coach | |
| Eric Bieniemy | Colorado, 2001–02: running backs coach | |
| Greg Brown | Colorado, 2005: defensive backs coach | |
| William Inge | Colorado, 2005: defensive line 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.
How he coached
Barnett’s teams went for it on 13% of fourth downs and on 25% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 52% of plays and took 24.4 seconds a play, 2004–2005.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 12 g | 14 of 104 13% | 26% | 50% | 24.1 | −0.12 | |
| 2005 12 g | 15 of 112 13% | 24% | 54% | 24.8 | −0.14 | |
| All 24 g | 29 of 216 13% | 25% | 52% | 24.4 | −0.13 |
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.