Timmy Chang
Timmy Chang went 23–35 as a head coach, 2022–2026, at Hawai’i. Wikipedia’s season articles record one season differently (2026, 1–5); by them his record is 23–34. Share
- Record
- 23–35 career
- Seasons
- 5
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Oct 9, 1981
- Alma mater
- Hawai’i 2009
- Best season
- 2025 9–4
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Hawai’i | 3–10 | 5th | |||
| 2023 | Hawai’i | 5–8 | T–8th | |||
| 2024 | Hawai’i | 5–7 | T–5th | |||
| 2025 | Hawai’i | 9–4 | T–5th | Hawai’i Bowl W | ||
| 2026 | Hawai’i | 1–6 (Wikipedia: 1–5) |
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
Kansei MatsuzawaConsensus All‑American, 2025
Every player from his seasons with a Heisman top-five finish, a national award, consensus All-America honors or a first-round pick.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 3 | 0–3 | 0% |
| Against top-10 teams | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 14 | 5–9 | 36% |
| Conference games | 35 | 13–22 | 37% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 1 | 1–0 | 100% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 19 | 7–12 | 37% |
| At home | 33 | 19–14 | 58% |
| On the road | 25 | 4–21 | 16% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 21 | 12–9 | 57% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 37 | 11–26 | 30% |
His own 58 games on file, 2022–2026, 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.
Against other head coaches
| Coach | Record | Their schools | Games | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jay Norvell 2022–2025 | 2–1 | Colorado State | 3 | |
| Brent Brennan 2022–2025 | 0–3 | San José State, Arizona | 3 |
Timmy Chang’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| UNLVseries | 5 | 1–4 |
| San Diego Stateseries | 4 | 1–3 |
| Wyomingseries | 4 | 1–3 |
| San José Stateseries | 4 | 0–4 |
| Nevadaseries | 3 | 3–0 |
| Colorado Stateseries | 3 | 2–1 |
| New Mexico Stateseries | 3 | 2–1 |
| Stanfordseries | 3 | 1–2 |
Also a player: Timmy Chang’s playing career.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012–13 | SMU | Graduate assistant | |
| 2014–15 | Jackson State | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2016 | Emory & Henry | Offensive coordinator | |
| 2017 | Nevada | Wide receivers coach | |
| 2018–20 | Nevada | Tight ends coach | |
| 2021 | Nevada | Wide receivers coach | |
| 2022–present | Hawaii | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- June JonesSMU
- Jay NorvellNevada
- Vai TauaNevada
Assistants who became head coaches
- Ian ShoemakerCentral Washington
Worked under (3)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June Jones | SMU | 2012–13 | Graduate assistant | |
| Jay Norvell | Nevada | 2017–21 | 2017–21: wide receivers coach; 2018–20: tight ends coach | |
| Vai Taua | Nevada | 2021 | Wide receivers coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ian Shoemaker | Hawai’i, 2022: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach; 2023: offensive coordinator and tight ends coach | Central Washington |
Other assistants under him (7)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Abe Elimimian | Hawai’i, 2022–23: cornerbacks coach | |
| Jacob Yoro | Hawai’i, 2022: defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach; 2023: defensive coordinator and safeties coach | |
| Eti Ena | Hawai’i, 2023: co-defensive coordinator | |
| Roman Sapolu | Hawai’i, 2023: co-offensive coordinator | |
| Dan Morrison | Hawai’i, 2024: co-offensive coordinator | |
| Dennis Thurman | Hawai’i, 2024–26: defensive coordinator and cornerbacks coach | |
| Anthony Arceneaux | Hawai’i, 2025–26: offensive 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.
How he coached
Chang’s teams went for it on 25% of fourth downs and on 48% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 64% of plays and took 25.5 seconds a play, 2022–2026.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 13 g | 33 of 117 28% | 46% | 58% | 23.8 | −0.04 | |
| 2023 13 g | 30 of 106 28% | 47% | 67% | 26.2 | −0.01 | |
| 2024 12 g | 22 of 85 26% | 52% | 65% | 26.1 | +0.02 | |
| 2025 13 g | 20 of 98 20% | 44% | 63% | 26.2 | +0.07 | |
| 2026 7 g | 13 of 64 20% | 54% | 68% | 24.8 | −0.04 | |
| All 58 g | 118 of 470 25% | 48% | 64% | 25.5 | 0.00 |
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.