Jedd Fisch
Jedd Fisch went 36–36 as a head coach, 2017–2026, at UCLA, Arizona and Washington. Wikipedia’s season articles record one season differently (2026, 3–3); by them his record is 35–36. Share
- Record
- 36–36 career
- Seasons
- 7
- Schools
- 3
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- May 5, 1976
- Alma mater
- Florida 1998
- Best season
- 2023 10–3, No. 11
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | UCLA interim, remainder of season | 1–1 | 4th | Cactus Bowl L | ||
| 2018–20: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 2021 | Arizona | 1–11 | 6th | |||
| 2022 | Arizona | 5–7 | 8th | |||
| 2023 | Arizona | 10–3 | 3rd | Alamo Bowl W | 11 | |
| 2024 | Washington | 6–7 | T–9th | Sun Bowl L | ||
| 2025 | Washington | 9–4 | T–7th | LA Bowl W | ||
| 2026 | Washington | 4–3 (Wikipedia: 3–3) | ||||
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.
Players he coached
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 | 21 | 8–13 | 38% |
| Against top-10 teams | 10 | 2–8 | 20% |
| Against rivals | 9 | 5–4 | 56% |
| Conference games | 50 | 22–28 | 44% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 4 | 2–2 | 50% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 25 | 11–14 | 44% |
| At home | 38 | 24–14 | 63% |
| On the road | 28 | 10–18 | 36% |
| At neutral sites | 6 | 2–4 | 33% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 34 | 26–8 | 76% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 38 | 10–28 | 26% |
His own 72 games on file, 2017–2026, 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.
Against other head coaches
| Coach | Record | Their schools | Games | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jake Dickert 2021–2024 | 1–3 | Washington State | 4 | |
| Lincoln Riley 2022–2026 | 1–3 | USC | 4 | |
| Justin Wilcox 2017–2022 | 2–1 | California | 3 | |
| Chip Kelly 2021–2023 | 2–1 | UCLA | 3 | |
| Kyle Whittingham 2021–2023 | 1–2 | Utah | 3 | |
| Dan Lanning 2022–2025 | 0–3 | Oregon | 3 |
Jedd Fisch’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 |
|---|---|---|
| Washington Stateseries | 6 | 3–3 |
| UCLAseries | 5 | 4–1 |
| USCseries | 5 | 1–4 |
| Oregonseries | 4 | 0–4 |
| Arizona Stateseries | 3 | 2–1 |
| Californiaseries | 3 | 2–1 |
| Coloradoseries | 3 | 2–1 |
| Utahseries | 3 | 1–2 |
How he was hired
- Hired by Arizona for the 2021 season from UCLA, where he was offensive coordinator.
- Hired by Washington for the 2024 season from Arizona, where he was head coach.
Power-conference head-coaching hires since 2010, with each coach’s previous job and ties to the school as collected by hand from Wikipedia: Hiring facts: M. Schuckers, cfb_coach_analytics.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | P. K. Yonge Developmental Research School (FL) high school | Defensive coordinator | |
| 1998 | New Jersey Red Dogs Arena | Wide receivers coach and quality control coach | |
| 1999–2000 | Florida | Graduate assistant | |
| 2002–03 | Houston Texans NFL | Defensive quality control coach | |
| 2004–07 | Baltimore Ravens NFL | Offensive assistant | |
| 2008 | Denver Broncos NFL | Wide receivers coach | |
| 2009 | Minnesota | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2010 | Seattle Seahawks NFL | Quarterbacks coach | |
| 2011–12 | Miami (FL) | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2013–14 | Jacksonville Jaguars NFL | Offensive coordinator | |
| 2015–16 | Michigan | Quarterbacks and wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator | |
| 2017 | UCLA | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2017 | UCLA | Interim head coach | |
| 2018 | Los Angeles Rams NFL | Senior offensive assistant | |
| 2019 | Los Angeles Rams NFL | Assistant offensive coordinator | |
| 2020 | New England Patriots NFL | Quarterbacks coach | |
| 2021–23 | Arizona | Head coach | |
| 2024–present | Washington | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Steve SpurrierFlorida
- Brian BillickBaltimore Ravens
- Mike ShanahanDenver Broncos
- Tim BrewsterMinnesota
- Pete CarrollSeattle Seahawks
- Rocky SetoSeattle Seahawks
- Al GoldenMiami
- Jim HarbaughMichigan
- Jim MoraUCLA
- Bill BelichickNew England Patriots
Assistants who became head coaches
- Deshaun FosterUCLA
- Rip SchererMemphis, James Madison
- DeWayne WalkerUCLA, New Mexico State
- Don BrownPlymouth State, Northeastern, Massachusetts
- Ryan WaltersPurdue
Worked under (10)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Spurrier | Florida | 1999–2000 | Graduate assistant | |
| Brian Billick | Baltimore Ravens NFL | 2004–07 | Offensive assistant | |
| Mike Shanahan | Denver Broncos NFL | 2008 | Wide receivers coach | |
| Tim Brewster | Minnesota | 2009 | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Pete Carroll | Seattle Seahawks NFL | 2010 | Quarterbacks coach | |
| Rocky Seto | Seattle Seahawks NFL | 2010 | Quarterbacks coach | |
| Al Golden | Miami | 2011–12 | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Jim Harbaugh | Michigan | 2015–16 | Quarterbacks and wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator | |
| Jim Mora | UCLA | 2017 | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Bill Belichick | New England Patriots NFL | 2020 | Quarterbacks coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (5)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deshaun Foster | UCLA, 2017: running backs coach | UCLA | |
| Rip Scherer | UCLA, 2017: tight ends coach | Memphis, James Madison | |
| DeWayne Walker | Arizona, 2021–22: cornerbacks coach | UCLA, New Mexico State | |
| Don Brown | Arizona, 2021: defensive coordinator | Plymouth State, Northeastern, Massachusetts | |
| Ryan Walters | Washington, 2025–26: defensive coordinator | Purdue |
Other assistants under him (12)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Jimmie Dougherty | UCLA, 2017: wide receivers coach; Arizona, 2021–23: quarterbacks coach and pass game coordinator; Washington, 2024: quarterbacks coach and pass game coordinator; 2025: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Tom Bradley | UCLA, 2017: defensive coordinator | |
| Brennan Carroll | Arizona, 2021–23: offensive coordinator and offensive line coach; Washington, 2024: offensive coordinator and offensive line coach | |
| Chuck Cecil | Arizona, 2021–23: safeties coach | |
| Keith Dudzinski | Arizona, 2021: special teams coordinator and outside linebackers coach | |
| Johnny Nansen | Arizona, 2022–23: defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach | |
| Duane Akina | Arizona, 2023: analyst | |
| Robert Bala | Washington, 2024: inside linebackers coach | |
| Stephen Belichick | Washington, 2024: defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach | |
| Vinnie Sunseri | Washington, 2024: safeties coach | |
| Brian Odom | Washington, 2025–26: inside linebackers coach | |
| Matt Cavanaugh | Washington, 2026: senior offensive assistant |
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.
Pay
| Year | School | Job | Contract pay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | UCLA | offensive coordinatorbonuses up to $100,000 | $810,000 USA Today |
USA Today’s coaches salary database (2014–17, from public-records requests to the schools; Rachel Ehlers’ copy): the season’s contract pay, school pay plus outside money, before bonuses.
Pay of public employees in their public job only: head coaches, and assistants in the seasons our records name them a coordinator, at public universities.
How he coached
Fisch’s teams went for it on 25% of fourth downs and on 43% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 55% of plays and took 26.1 seconds a play, 2021–2026.
| Season | School | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 12 g | Arizona | 26 of 113 23% | 41% | 55% | 24.3 | −0.06 | |
| 2022 12 g | Arizona | 24 of 79 30% | 43% | 59% | 24.4 | +0.14 | |
| 2023 13 g | Arizona | 14 of 76 18% | 36% | 58% | 27.3 | +0.17 | |
| 2024 13 g | Washington | 26 of 95 27% | 43% | 54% | 27.1 | +0.09 | |
| 2025 13 g | Washington | 20 of 66 30% | 55% | 49% | 26.9 | +0.20 | |
| 2026 7 g | Washington | 12 of 54 22% | 39% | 59% | 26.2 | +0.07 | |
| All 70 g | 122 of 483 25% | 43% | 55% | 26.1 | +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.