Bob Davie
Followed Mike Locksley. Bob Davie held New Mexico at Regional Program IV for 8 seasons.
Career arc
His real stature score, season by season, across every program he’s coached — so a stretch that stays in one tier the whole way can still climb or sink on the line, not just flatten out. Node color marks the tier reached. Which program a stretch belongs to is carried by the shaded lane behind it.
Reached Blue Blood in his 1st career season — faster than 59% of the 100 FBS coaches who have ever reached Blue Blood (rank #1 of 100 by seasons-to-arrival).
Style position and drift
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 258 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2014–2025.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
12–9 against his rivals. Winless in 5 tries against Mike Bobo.
His own effect, isolated
A statistical estimate of this coach’s contribution to team performance, separated from that season’s roster talent, returning production, and his coordinators — pooled across his whole head-coaching career.
Model fit as of 2026-09-04.
Coaching career
14th-best New Mexico tenure of 22 by the numbers.
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on offense and underperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
Followed Mike Locksley (2009–2011) · succeeded by Danny Gonzales (2020–2023).
| Season | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||||
| Record | 4–9 | 3–9 | 4–8 | 7–6 | 9–4 | 3–9 | 3–9 | 2–10 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | L bowl | W bowl | — | — | — | |
| Recruiting rank | — | — | #93 | #116 | #83 | #118 | #122 | #118 | |
| Style — pass rate | |||||||||
| Pass rate | — | — | 20.3 | 26.5 | 20.6 | 30.9 | 36.4 | 39.8 | |
| Coordinators | |||||||||
| OC | — | — | Bob DeBesse | Bob DeBesse | Bob DeBesse | Bob DeBesse | Calvin Magee | Joe Dailey | |
| DC | — | — | Kevin Cosgrove | Kevin Cosgrove | Kevin Cosgrove | Kevin Cosgrove | Kevin Cosgrove | Jordan Peterson | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||||
| Offense | — | — | 68 | 57 | 95 | 13 | 8 | 22 | |
| Defense | — | — | 5 | 26 | 4 | 14 | 19 | 8 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | |||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | 18.0 | 19.8 | 16.8 | 24.5 | 25.9 | 37.1 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | 5.7 | 10.3 | 11.6 | 19.4 | 18.2 | 33.3 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | 55.0 | 35.9 | 48.6 | 35.1 | 15.0 | 31.4 | |
1 NFL Draft pick: Jason Sanders (2018)
7th-best Notre Dame tenure of 15 by the numbers.
Followed Lou Holtz (1986–1996) · succeeded by Tyrone Willingham (2002–2004).
26 NFL Draft picks: Renaldo Wynn (1997), Marc Edwards (1997), Bert Berry (1997), Kinnon Tatum (1997), Pete Chryplewicz (1997), Allen Rossum (1998), Luke Petitgout (1999), Jerry Wisne (1999) + 18 more