Morgan Scalley
Morgan Scalley went 7–0 as a head coach, 2025–2026, at Utah. Wikipedia’s season articles record one season differently (2026, 5–0); by them his record is 6–0. Share
- Record
- 7–0 career
- Seasons
- 2
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Oct 8, 1977
- Best season
- 2025 11–2, No. 14
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Utah bowl game | 1–0 | Las Vegas Bowl W | 14 | ||
| 2026 | Utah | 6–0 (Wikipedia: 5–0) |
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
Caleb LomuNo. 28 pick, 2026
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 rivals | 2 | 2–0 | 100% |
| Conference games | 3 | 3–0 | 100% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 1 | 1–0 | 100% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 1 | 1–0 | 100% |
| At home | 4 | 4–0 | 100% |
| On the road | 2 | 2–0 | 100% |
| At neutral sites | 1 | 1–0 | 100% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 7 | 7–0 | 100% |
His own seven games on file, 2025–2026, 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
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Arkansasseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Coloradoseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Iowa Stateseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Idahoseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Nebraskaseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Utah Stateseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Kansasseries | 1 | 1–0 |
Also a player: Morgan Scalley’s playing career.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Utah | Graduate assistant | |
| 2008 | Utah | Safeties coach | |
| 2009–14 | Utah | Safeties coach and recruiting coordinator | |
| 2015 | Utah | Special teams and safeties coach and recruiting coordinator | |
| 2016–25 | Utah | Defensive coordinator and safeties coach | |
| 2025–present | Utah | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Kyle WhittinghamUtah
Worked under (1)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kyle Whittingham | Utah | 2007–25 | 2007: graduate assistant; 2008: safeties coach; 2009–14: safeties coach and recruiting coordinator; 2015: special teams and safeties coach and recruiting coordinator; 2016–25: defensive coordinator and safeties coach |
Coached under him (5)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Colton Swan | Utah, 2025: linebackers coach; 2026: defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| Jason Beck | Utah, 2025: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Derrick Odum | Utah, 2026: defensive backs coach | |
| Kevin McGiven | Utah, 2026: offensive coordinator | |
| Ryan Gunderson | Utah, 2026: 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.
Pay
| Year | School | Job | Contract pay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Utah | defensive coordinatorbonuses up to $43,750 | $525,000 USA Today | |
| 2016 | Utah | defensive coordinatorbonuses up to $35,417 | $425,000 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
Scalley’s teams went for it on 30% of fourth downs and on 44% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 47% of plays and took 27.8 seconds a play, in 2026.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 6 g | 10 of 33 30% | 44% | 47% | 27.8 | +0.22 |
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.