Matt Luke
Matt Luke went 15–21 as a head coach, 2017–2019, at Ole Miss. Share
- Record
- 15–21 career
- Seasons
- 3
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Oct 29, 1976
- Alma mater
- Ole Miss 2000
- Best season
- 2017 6–6
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Ole Miss | 6–6 | 6th (Western) | |||
| 2018 | Ole Miss | 5–7 | 6th (Western) | |||
| 2019 | Ole Miss | 4–8 | 6th (Western) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 11 | 1–10 | 9% |
| Against top-10 teams | 5 | 0–5 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 19 | 5–14 | 26% |
| Conference games | 24 | 6–18 | 25% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 12 | 3–9 | 25% |
| At home | 21 | 11–10 | 52% |
| On the road | 14 | 3–11 | 21% |
| At neutral sites | 1 | 1–0 | 100% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 18 | 13–5 | 72% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 18 | 2–16 | 11% |
His own 36 games on file, 2017–2019, 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derek Mason 2017–2019 | 2–1 | Vanderbilt | 3 | |
| Ed Orgeron 2017–2019 | 0–3 | LSU | 3 | |
| Gus Malzahn 2017–2019 | 0–3 | Auburn | 3 | |
| Nick Saban 2017–2019 | 0–3 | Alabama | 3 |
Matt Luke’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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arkansasseries | 3 | 2–1 |
| Vanderbiltseries | 3 | 2–1 |
| Mississippi Stateseries | 3 | 1–2 |
| Auburnseries | 3 | 0–3 |
| LSUseries | 3 | 0–3 |
| Texas A&Mseries | 3 | 0–3 |
| Alabamaseries | 3 | 0–3 |
| Californiaseries | 2 | 0–2 |
National title staffs
Every title staff- Won a national title on Georgia’s 2021 staff (associate head coach – offensive line) · 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.
How he was hired
- Hired by Ole Miss for the 2017 season from Ole Miss, where he was offensive coordinator. He had a prior connection to the school.
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Ole Miss | Graduate assistant | |
| 2000–01 | Murray State | Offensive line coach | |
| 2002–05 | Ole Miss | Offensive line and tight ends coach | |
| 2006–07 | Tennessee | Offensive line and tight ends coach | |
| 2008–11 | Duke | Co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach | |
| 2012–16 | Ole Miss | Co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach | |
| 2017–19 | Ole Miss | Head coach | |
| 2020–21 | Georgia | Assistant head coach and offensive line coach | |
| 2024–present | Clemson | Co-offensive coordinator, assistant head coach and offensive line coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- David CutcliffeOle Miss, Duke
- Ed OrgeronOle Miss
- Phillip FulmerTennessee
- Hugh FreezeOle Miss
- Kirby SmartGeorgia
- Dabo SwinneyClemson
Assistants who became head coaches
- Bradley Dale PevetoNorthwestern State
- Chris RipponWestern Connecticut
- Jack Bicknell Jr.Louisiana Tech
- Phil LongoSam Houston, La Salle
- Jon SumrallTroy, Tulane, Florida
- Mike MacIntyreSan José State, Colorado, Florida International
- Rich RodriguezWest Virginia, Michigan, Arizona, Jacksonville State, Salem, Glenville State
Worked under (6)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Cutcliffe | Ole Miss | 1999–2004 | 1999: graduate assistant; 2002–04: offensive line and tight ends coach | |
| Ed Orgeron | Ole Miss | 2005 | Offensive line and tight ends coach | |
| Phillip Fulmer | Tennessee | 2006–07 | Offensive line and tight ends coach | |
| David Cutcliffe | Duke | 2008–11 | Co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach | |
| Hugh Freeze | Ole Miss | 2012–16 | Co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach | |
| Kirby Smart | Georgia | 2020–21 | Assistant head coach and offensive line coach | |
| Dabo Swinney | Clemson | 2024–26 | Co-offensive coordinator, assistant head coach and offensive line coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (7)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bradley Dale Peveto | Ole Miss, 2017: linebackers and special teams coach | Northwestern State | |
| Chris Rippon | Ole Miss, 2017–19: special teams coach | Western Connecticut | |
| Jack Bicknell Jr. | Ole Miss, 2017–19: offensive line coach | Louisiana Tech | |
| Phil Longo | Ole Miss, 2017–18: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | Sam Houston, La Salle | |
| Jon Sumrall | Ole Miss, 2018: linebackers coach | Troy, Tulane, Florida | |
| Mike MacIntyre | Ole Miss, 2019: defensive coordinator and safeties coach | San José State, Colorado, Florida International | |
| Rich Rodriguez | Ole Miss, 2019: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | West Virginia, Michigan, Arizona, Jacksonville State, Salem, Glenville State |
Other assistants under him (5)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Derrick Nix | Ole Miss, 2017–19: running backs coach | |
| Jason Jones | Ole Miss, 2017–18: co-defensive coordinator | |
| Wesley McGriff | Ole Miss, 2017–18: defensive coordinator | |
| Calvin Magee | Ole Miss, 2019: tight ends coach | |
| Tyrone Nix | Ole Miss, 2019: outside 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.
Pay
| Year | School | Job | Contract pay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Ole Miss | head coachbuyout $1,430,000 | $1,160,000 USA Today | |
| 2016 | Ole Miss | co-offensive coordinatorbonuses up to $67,800 | $565,300 USA Today | |
| 2015 | Ole Miss | co-offensive coordinatorbonuses up to $55,800 | $465,200 USA Today | |
| 2014 | Ole Miss | co-offensive coordinator | $335,200 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
Luke’s teams went for it on 20% of fourth downs and on 35% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 51% of plays and took 21.9 seconds a play, 2017–2019.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 12 g | 10 of 90 11% | 17% | 58% | 21.8 | +0.10 | |
| 2018 12 g | 15 of 90 17% | 34% | 55% | 21.7 | +0.17 | |
| 2019 12 g | 32 of 109 29% | 49% | 39% | 22.3 | +0.05 | |
| All 36 g | 57 of 289 20% | 35% | 51% | 21.9 | +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.