Mike Giddings, head coach at Utah
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Mike Giddings

Mike Giddings went 9–⁠12 as a head coach, 1966–⁠1967, at Utah.

Record
9–⁠12 career
Seasons
2
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1966 5–⁠5

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1482 in 1966
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1966Utah5–⁠5T–2nd
1967Utah4–⁠74th

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 gameGamesRecord
Against rivals61–⁠5
Conference games105–⁠5
Decided by 8 points or fewer94–⁠5
At home93–⁠6
On the road126–⁠6
As our Elo’s favorite97–⁠2
As our Elo’s underdog122–⁠10

His own 21 games on file, 1966–⁠1967, 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.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Arizonaseries22–⁠0
New Mexicoseries22–⁠0
Oregonseries22–⁠0
Arizona Stateseries21–⁠1
BYUseries20–⁠2
Utah Stateseries20–⁠2
UTEPseries20–⁠2
Wyomingseries20–⁠2

Career

YearsTeamJob
1957–⁠59Monrovia HS (CA) high schoolHead coach
1960Glendale (CA)Head coach
1961–⁠65USCAssistant coach
1966–⁠67UtahHead coach
1968–⁠73San Francisco 49ers NFLAssistant coach
1974–⁠75The Hawaiians WFLHead coach
1976Denver Broncos NFLDirector pro scouting and assistant offensive line
1979–⁠85Newport Harbor HS (CA) 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 Giddings

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (2)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
John McKayUSC1961–⁠65Assistant coach
John RalstonDenver Broncos NFL1976Director pro scouting and assistant offensive line
Coached under him, later head coaches (3)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Chuck BankerUtah, 1966–⁠67: linebackers and defensive ends coachIowa State, Westminster (UT)
Jim CrinerUtah, 1967: offensive line coachIowa State, Boise State, Scottish Claymores, Las Vegas Outlaws
Tom LovatUtah, 1967: defensive line coachUtah

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.