Mike DuBose

Mike DuBose went 57–⁠33 as a head coach, 1997–⁠2009, at Alabama and Millsaps.

Four seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 2006–⁠09 at Millsaps. They’re marked in the table.

Record
57–⁠33 career
Seasons
8
Schools
2
Final AP top 10
1 season
Best season
1999 10–⁠3, No. 8

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1711 in 1999
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1997Alabama4–⁠75th (West)
1998Alabama7–⁠5T–3rd (West)Music City Bowl L
1999Alabama10–⁠31st (West)SEC Championship Game W; Orange Bowl L8
2000Alabama3–⁠8T–5th (West)
2001–⁠05: not a college head coach
2006Millsaps *7–⁠41stNCAA Division III First Round L
2007Millsaps *8–⁠2T–1st
2008Millsaps *11–⁠11stNCAA Division III Second Round L12
2009Millsaps *7–⁠3T–1st

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

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 gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams198–⁠11
Against top-10 teams83–⁠5
Against rivals2311–⁠12
Conference games3216–⁠16
Bowls and playoffs31–⁠2
Decided by 8 points or fewer188–⁠10
At home2716–⁠11
On the road177–⁠10
At neutral sites31–⁠2
As our Elo’s favorite2717–⁠10
As our Elo’s underdog207–⁠13

His own 47 games on file, 1997–⁠2000, 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

CoachRecordTheir schoolsGames
Woody Widenhofer 1997–⁠20004–⁠0Vanderbilt4
Jeff Bower 1997–⁠20003–⁠1Southern Miss4
Tommy Tuberville 1997–⁠20003–⁠1Ole Miss, Auburn4
Jackie Sherrill 1997–⁠20001–⁠3Mississippi State4
Phillip Fulmer 1997–⁠20000–⁠4Tennessee4
Gerry DiNardo 1997–⁠19992–⁠1LSU3
Steve Spurrier 1998–⁠19992–⁠1Florida3
Houston Nutt 1998–⁠20001–⁠2Arkansas3

Mike DuBose’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Ole Missseries44–⁠0
Vanderbiltseries44–⁠0
Southern Missseries43–⁠1
Auburnseries42–⁠2
LSUseries42–⁠2
Arkansasseries41–⁠3
Mississippi Stateseries41–⁠3
Tennesseeseries40–⁠4

National title staffs

Every title staff

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

YearsTeamJob
1975AlabamaGraduate assistant
1976–⁠77Fairhope HS (AL) high schoolAssistant coach
1978–⁠79Prattville HS (AL) high schoolHead coach
1980–⁠81ChattanoogaDefensive line coach
1982Southern MissDefensive line coach
1983–⁠86AlabamaDefensive line coach
1987–⁠89Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFLDefensive line coach
1990–⁠95AlabamaDefensive line coach
1996AlabamaDefensive coordinator and defensive line coach
1997–⁠2000AlabamaHead coach
2002Northview HS (AL) high schoolHead coach
2003–⁠04Luverne HS (AL) high schoolHead coach
2005MillsapsDefensive coordinator
2006–⁠09MillsapsHead coach
2010–⁠11MemphisDefensive line coach
2013–⁠14Luverne HS (AL) high schoolHead coach
2015–⁠17Opp HS (AL) high schoolLinebackers coach
2019–⁠20Opp HS (AL) high schoolDefensive coordinator
2021–⁠22Opp HS (AL) high schoolHead coach

Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.

Coaching tree

Worked under

Mike DuBose

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (6)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Bear BryantAlabama1975Graduate assistant
Bill OliverChattanooga1980–⁠81Defensive line coach
Jim CarmodySouthern Miss1982Defensive line coach
Ray PerkinsAlabama1983–⁠86Defensive line coach
Ray PerkinsTampa Bay Buccaneers NFL1987–⁠89Defensive line coach
Gene StallingsAlabama1990–⁠961990–⁠95: defensive line coach; 1996: defensive coordinator and defensive line coach
Larry PorterMemphis2010–⁠11Defensive line coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (8)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Bruce AriansAlabama, 1997: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coachTemple, Indianapolis Colts, Arizona Cardinals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Curley HallmanAlabama, 1997: defensive backs coachSouthern Miss, LSU
Dabo SwinneyAlabama, 1997: tight ends coach; 1998–⁠2000: wide receivers coachClemson
Ellis JohnsonAlabama, 1997: defensive coordinator and defensive line coach; 1998–⁠2000: defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coachSouthern Miss, Gardner-Webb, The Citadel
Jeremy PruittAlabama, 1997: graduate assistantTennessee
Neil CallawayAlabama, 1997: offensive line coach; 1998–⁠2000: offensive coordinator and offensive line coachUAB
Charlie StubbsAlabama, 1998–⁠2000: passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coachNicholls
Mike BloomgrenAlabama, 1999–⁠2000: graduate assistantRice
Other assistants under him (6)
CoachWith him
Mickey ConnAlabama, 1997: graduate assistant
Woody McCorveyAlabama, 1997: assistant head coach and wide receivers coach
Charlie HarbisonAlabama, 1998–⁠2000: defensive backs coach
Kevin SherrerAlabama, 1998–⁠2000: graduate assistant
Marcus WoodsonMillsaps, 2006–⁠08: defensive backs coach
Shannon DawsonMillsaps, 2006–⁠07: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks 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.