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Ted Roof, head coach at Duke
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Ted Roof

Ted Roof went 6–⁠45 as a head coach, 2003–⁠2007, at Duke.

Record
6–⁠45 career
Seasons
5
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
2003 4–⁠8

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1374 in 2003
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
2003Duke interim, last 5 games2–⁠38th
2004Duke2–⁠9T–10th
2005Duke1–⁠106th (Coastal)
2006Duke0–⁠126th (Coastal)
2007Duke1–⁠116th (Coastal)

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 ranked teams130–⁠13
Against top-10 teams20–⁠2
Against rivals192–⁠17
Conference games363–⁠33
Decided by 8 points or fewer153–⁠12
At home254–⁠21
On the road262–⁠24
As our Elo’s favorite22–⁠0
As our Elo’s underdog494–⁠45

His own 51 games on file, 2003–⁠2007, 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
Chan Gailey 2003–⁠20071–⁠4Georgia Tech5
John Bunting 2003–⁠20061–⁠3North Carolina4
Tommy Bowden 2003–⁠20071–⁠3Clemson4
Al Groh 2004–⁠20070–⁠4Virginia4
Bobby Bowden 2004–⁠20070–⁠4Florida State4
Frank Beamer 2004–⁠20070–⁠4Virginia Tech4
Jim Grobe 2004–⁠20070–⁠4Wake Forest4
Paul Johnson 2004–⁠20070–⁠4Navy4

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Georgia Techseries51–⁠4
North Carolinaseries51–⁠4
Clemsonseries41–⁠3
Florida Stateseries40–⁠4
Wake Forestseries40–⁠4
Virginiaseries40–⁠4
Virginia Techseries40–⁠4
Navyseries40–⁠4

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.

Other roles

From each season’s Wikipedia article.

Career

YearsTeamJob
1987–⁠88AlabamaGraduate assistant
1989West GeorgiaLinebackers coach
1990–⁠93DukeLinebackers coach
1994UMassOutside linebackers and defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator
1995–⁠96UMassDefensive coordinator
1997Western CarolinaDefensive coordinator
1998Georgia TechLinebackers coach
1999–⁠2001Georgia TechDefensive coordinator
2002–⁠03DukeDefensive coordinator
2003DukeInterim head coach
2004–⁠07DukeHead coach
2008MinnesotaDefensive coordinator
2009–⁠11AuburnDefensive coordinator and linebackers coach
2011UCFDefensive coordinator
2012Penn StateDefensive coordinator
2013–⁠17Georgia TechDefensive coordinator
2018NC StateAssistant head coach, co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach
2019Appalachian StateDefensive coordinator
2020VanderbiltDefensive coordinator
2021ClemsonDefensive assistant
2022–⁠23OklahomaDefensive coordinator and linebackers coach
2024UCFDefensive coordinator and linebackers coach
2026–presentBoston CollegeDefensive coordinator and linebackers coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Ted Roof

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (18)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Bill CurryAlabama1987–⁠88Graduate assistant
Mac McWhorterWest Georgia1989Linebackers coach
Barry WilsonDuke1990–⁠93Linebackers coach
Bill BleilWestern Carolina1997Defensive coordinator
George O’LearyGeorgia Tech1998–⁠20011998: linebackers coach; 1999–⁠2001: defensive coordinator
Mac McWhorterGeorgia Tech2001Defensive coordinator
Carl FranksDuke2002–⁠03Defensive coordinator
Tim BrewsterMinnesota2008Defensive coordinator
Gene ChizikAuburn2009–⁠11Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach
George O’LearyUCF2011Defensive coordinator
Bill O’BrienPenn State2012Defensive coordinator
Paul JohnsonGeorgia Tech2013–⁠17Defensive coordinator
Dave DoerenNC State2018Assistant head coach, co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach
Shawn ClarkApp State2019Defensive coordinator
Eli DrinkwitzApp State2019Defensive coordinator
Todd FitchVanderbilt2020Defensive coordinator
Derek MasonVanderbilt2020Defensive coordinator
Dabo SwinneyClemson2021Defensive assistant
Brent VenablesOklahoma2022–⁠23Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach
Gus MalzahnUCF2024Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach
Bill O’BrienBoston College2026Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (7)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Brad SherrodDuke, 2003–⁠05: linebackers coach; 2006: tight ends coach; 2007: running backs coachTexas Wesleyan, Morehouse
Glenn SpencerDuke, 2004–⁠06: assistant head coach, defensive backs coach and recruiting coordinator; 2007: assistant head coach, inside linebackers coach and recruiting coordinatorWest Georgia
Jerry AzzinaroDuke, 2004–⁠06: co-defensive coordinatorWestern New England
Bill O’BrienDuke, 2005–⁠06: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coachPenn State, Boston College, Houston Texans
Scottie MontgomeryDuke, 2006–⁠07: wide receivers coachEast Carolina
John GutekunstDuke, 2007: defensive backs coachMinnesota
Peter VaasDuke, 2007: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coachAllegheny, Holy Cross, Berlin Thunder, Cologne Centurions
Other assistants under him (4)
CoachWith him
Jim PryDuke, 2003: offensive coordinator
Marty GalbraithDuke, 2004: offensive coordinator
Scott BrownDuke, 2004–⁠06: co-defensive coordinator; 2007: defensive coordinator
John StrolloDuke, 2005–⁠07: assistant 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

YearSchoolJobContract pay
2017Georgia Techdefensive coordinatorbonuses up to $116,667$800,000 USA Today
2016Georgia Techdefensive coordinatorbonuses up to $112,500$750,000 USA Today
2015Georgia Techdefensive coordinatorbonuses up to $112,500$750,000 USA Today
2014Georgia Techdefensive coordinatorbonuses up to $97,666$623,000 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

Roof’s teams went for it on 21% of fourth downs and on 36% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 50% of plays and took 25.7 seconds a play, 2004–⁠2007.

SeasonWent for it on fourthWhen the model said goPass rateSeconds a playEPA a play
2004 10 g17 of 90 19%31%46%23.7−0.22
2005 11 g20 of 104 19%38%45%27.3−0.20
2006 12 g23 of 101 23%39%53%26.9−0.20
2007 9 g19 of 87 22%34%55%24.6−0.11
All 42 g79 of 382 21%36%50%25.7−0.19

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.