Mike Bobo
Mike Bobo went 28–38 as a head coach, 2015–2020, at Colorado State and South Carolina. Share
- Record
- 28–38 career
- Seasons
- 6
- Schools
- 2
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Apr 9, 1974
- Alma mater
- Georgia 1997
- Best season
- 2015 7–6
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Colorado State | 7–6 | T–2nd | Arizona Bowl L | ||
| 2016 | Colorado State | 7–6 | T–4th | Famous Idaho Potato Bowl L | ||
| 2017 | Colorado State | 7–6 | T–2nd | New Mexico Bowl L | ||
| 2018 | Colorado State | 3–9 | 5th | |||
| 2019 | Colorado State | 4–8 | 5th | |||
| 2020 | South Carolina interim, remainder of the year | 0–3 | 6th (Eastern) | Gasparilla (not played) |
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 | 6 | 0–6 | 0% |
| Against top-10 teams | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 17 | 2–15 | 12% |
| Conference games | 43 | 20–23 | 47% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 3 | 0–3 | 0% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 22 | 8–14 | 36% |
| At home | 31 | 15–16 | 48% |
| On the road | 26 | 12–14 | 46% |
| At neutral sites | 9 | 1–8 | 11% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 34 | 23–11 | 68% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 32 | 5–27 | 16% |
His own 66 games on file, 2015–2020, 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Davie 2015–2019 | 5–0 | New Mexico | 5 | |
| Craig Bohl 2015–2019 | 1–4 | Wyoming | 5 | |
| Troy Calhoun 2015–2019 | 1–4 | Air Force | 5 | |
| Bryan Harsin 2015–2019 | 0–5 | Boise State | 5 | |
| Matt Wells 2015–2018 | 2–2 | Utah State | 4 | |
| Mike MacIntyre 2015–2018 | 0–4 | Colorado | 4 | |
| Tony Sanchez 2015–2019 | 3–0 | UNLV | 3 | |
| Rocky Long 2015–2019 | 1–2 | San Diego State | 3 |
Mike Bobo’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 |
|---|---|---|
| New Mexicoseries | 5 | 5–0 |
| Utah Stateseries | 5 | 2–3 |
| Air Forceseries | 5 | 1–4 |
| Wyomingseries | 5 | 1–4 |
| Coloradoseries | 5 | 0–5 |
| Boise Stateseries | 5 | 0–5 |
| Fresno Stateseries | 3 | 3–0 |
| UNLVseries | 3 | 3–0 |
National title staffs
Every title staff- Won a national title on Georgia’s 2022 staff (quality control – offense) · 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Georgia | Graduate assistant | |
| 2000 | Jacksonville State | Quarterbacks coach | |
| 2001–06 | Georgia | Quarterbacks coach | |
| 2007–14 | Georgia | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2015–19 | Colorado State | Head coach | |
| 2020 | South Carolina | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2020 | South Carolina | Interim head coach and offensive coordinator | |
| 2021 | Auburn | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2022 | Georgia | Offensive analyst | |
| 2023–present | Georgia | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Jim DonnanGeorgia
- Jack CroweJacksonville State
- Mark RichtGeorgia
- Will MuschampSouth Carolina
- Bryan HarsinAuburn
- Kirby SmartGeorgia
Assistants who became head coaches
- Tyson SummersGeorgia Southern, Colorado State
Worked under (6)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Donnan | Georgia | 1999 | Graduate assistant | |
| Jack Crowe | Jacksonville State | 2000 | Quarterbacks coach | |
| Mark Richt | Georgia | 2001–14 | 2001–06: quarterbacks coach; 2007–14: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Will Muschamp | South Carolina | 2020 | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Bryan Harsin | Auburn | 2021 | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Kirby Smart | Georgia | 2022–26 | 2022: offensive analyst; 2023–26: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyson Summers | Colorado State, 2015: defensive coordinator and safeties coach | Georgia Southern, Colorado State |
Other assistants under him (8)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Joe Cox | Colorado State, 2015: graduate assistant; 2016–19: tight ends coach; South Carolina, 2020: wide receivers coach | |
| Will Friend | Colorado State, 2015–17: offensive coordinator | |
| Jamie Bryant | Colorado State, 2016–17: special teams coach | |
| Marty English | Colorado State, 2016–17: defensive coordinator | |
| Dave Johnson | Colorado State, 2018–19: offensive coordinator | |
| John Jancek | Colorado State, 2018–19: defensive coordinator | |
| Desmond Kitchings | South Carolina, 2020: running backs coach | |
| Travaris Robinson | South Carolina, 2020: defensive coordinator and defensive backs 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 | State payroll | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Georgia | offensive coordinator | $1,564,996 | ||
| 2023 | Georgia | offensive coordinator | $1,327,049 | ||
| 2017 | Colorado State | head coachbonuses up to $785,000; $50,000 in bonuses paid; buyout $3,000,000 | $1,550,000 USA Today | ||
| 2016 | Colorado State | head coachbonuses up to $685,000; $50,000 in bonuses paid | $1,450,000 USA Today | ||
| 2015 | Colorado State | head coachbonuses up to $685,000 | $1,350,000 USA Today | ||
| 2014 | Georgia | offensive coordinatorbonuses up to $210,000 | $578,700 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.
Open Georgia (State of Georgia, unaudited): salary paid in the fiscal year from July to June, shown against the season inside it.
Contract pay and the state payroll differ by design: one is the season’s contract, the other what the state paid in a calendar or fiscal year, so a December hire’s short first year, bonuses and camp money paid as special payments, and pay that ran on after he left all show in the payroll.
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
Bobo’s teams went for it on 21% of fourth downs and on 35% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 50% of plays and took 24.6 seconds a play, 2015–2019.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 13 g | 17 of 91 19% | 32% | 44% | 23.9 | +0.06 | |
| 2016 12 g | 22 of 88 25% | 38% | 41% | 25.0 | +0.15 | |
| 2017 13 g | 20 of 86 23% | 33% | 48% | 25.1 | +0.17 | |
| 2018 12 g | 17 of 98 17% | 30% | 60% | 23.7 | +0.03 | |
| 2019 12 g | 20 of 92 22% | 42% | 56% | 25.1 | −0.01 | |
| All 62 g | 96 of 455 21% | 35% | 50% | 24.6 | +0.08 |
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.