Mel Tucker

• Won a national title on Ohio State’s 2002 staff (defensive secondary) · the staff · source
• Won a national title on Alabama’s 2015 staff (assistant head coach, defensive backs) · 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.

• Hired by Colorado for the 2019 season from Georgia, where he was defensive coordinator.
• Hired by Michigan State for the 2020 season from Colorado, 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.

Tucker’s teams went for it on 23% of fourth downs and on 39% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 52% of plays and took 24.8 seconds a play, 2019–⁠2022.

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.