Pete Golding
Pete Golding went 7–2 as a head coach, 2025–2026, at Ole Miss. Wikipedia’s season articles record one season differently (2026, 4–1); by them his record is 6–2. Share
- Record
- 7–2 career
- Seasons
- 2
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 1 season
- Alma mater
- Delta State 2005
- Best season
- 2025 13–2, No. 3
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Ole Miss postseason | 2–1 | CFP First Round W; Sugar Bowl, CFP Quarterfinal W; Fiesta Bowl, CFP Semifinal L | |||
| 2026 | Ole Miss | 5–1 (Wikipedia: 4–1) |
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 game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 7 | 5–2 | 71% |
| Against top-10 teams | 3 | 2–1 | 67% |
| Against rivals | 3 | 3–0 | 100% |
| Conference games | 4 | 3–1 | 75% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 3 | 2–1 | 67% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 4 | 3–1 | 75% |
| At home | 4 | 4–0 | 100% |
| On the road | 2 | 1–1 | 50% |
| At neutral sites | 3 | 2–1 | 67% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 8 | 6–2 | 75% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 1 | 1–0 | 100% |
His own nine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Georgiaseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Louisvilleseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| LSUseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Missouriseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Vanderbiltseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Charlotteseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Tulaneseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Floridaseries | 1 | 0–1 |
National title staffs
Every title staff- Won a national title on Alabama’s 2020 staff (defensive coordinator, inside linebackers) · 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Delta State | Graduate assistant | |
| 2007–09 | Tusculum | Defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | |
| 2010–11 | Delta State | Defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | |
| 2012–13 | Southeastern Louisiana | Defensive coordinator | |
| 2014–15 | Southern Miss | Defensive backs coach | |
| 2016–17 | UTSA | Defensive coordinator and cornerbacks coach | |
| 2018–22 | Alabama | Defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach | |
| 2023–25 | Ole Miss | Defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach | |
| 2025–present | Ole Miss | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Rick RhoadesDelta State
- Frankie DeBuskTusculum
- Ron RobertsDelta State, SE Louisiana
- Todd MonkenSouthern Miss
- Frank WilsonUTSA
- Nick SabanAlabama
- Lane KiffinOle Miss
Assistants who became head coaches
- Lou SpanosUConn
- Frank WilsonUTSA, LSU, McNeese
- Mike StoopsArizona
- Todd CooleyDelta State
Worked under (7)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rick Rhoades | Delta State | 2006 | Graduate assistant | |
| Frankie DeBusk | Tusculum | 2007–09 | Defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | |
| Ron Roberts | Delta State | 2010–11 | Defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | |
| Ron Roberts | SE Louisiana | 2012–13 | Defensive coordinator | |
| Todd Monken | Southern Miss | 2014–15 | Defensive backs coach | |
| Frank Wilson | UTSA | 2016–17 | Defensive coordinator and cornerbacks coach | |
| Nick Saban | Alabama | 2018–22 | Defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach | |
| Lane Kiffin | Ole Miss | 2023–25 | Defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (4)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lou Spanos | Ole Miss, 2025: defensive analyst | UConn | |
| Frank Wilson | Ole Miss, 2026: senior associate head coach and running backs coach | UTSA, LSU, McNeese | |
| Mike Stoops | Ole Miss, 2026: defensive analyst | Arizona | |
| Todd Cooley | Ole Miss, 2026: specialist assistant to the head coach and director of HS relations | Delta State |
Other assistants under him (8)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Bryan Brown | Ole Miss, 2025: co-defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach; 2026: defensive coordinator | |
| Charlie Weis Jr. | Ole Miss, 2025: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Chris Kiffin | Ole Miss, 2025: defensive analyst | |
| George McDonald | Ole Miss, 2025: wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator | |
| Joe Cox | Ole Miss, 2025: co-offensive coordinator and tight ends coach | |
| Cody Woodiel | Ole Miss, 2026: co-offensive coordinator | |
| John David Baker | Ole Miss, 2026: offensive coordinator | |
| Marcus Woodson | Ole Miss, 2026: co-defensive coordinator |
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 | UTSA | defensive coordinator | $200,000 USA Today | |
| 2016 | UTSA | defensive coordinator | $190,000 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
Golding’s teams went for it on 15% of fourth downs and on 36% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 55% of plays and took 23.0 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 | 5 of 33 15% | 36% | 55% | 23.0 | +0.19 |
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.