Chip Kelly
Offensive coordinator across 3 programs, 4 stints, before and after wearing the head-coach hat — every season measured on the same axis, whether he personally ran the unit or someone else did.
Chip Kelly
Followed Jim Mora. Chip Kelly slid UCLA from Power Program III to National Program I in 6 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 Power Program in his 1st career season — faster than 57% of the 395 FBS coaches who have ever reached Power Program (rank #1 of 395 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.
10–3 against his rivals. Just 1–3 against Lincoln Riley.
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
12th-best UCLA tenure of 20 by the numbers.
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on offense and underperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
Followed Jim Mora (2012–2017) · succeeded by Deshaun Foster (2024–2025).
| Season | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||
| Record | 3–9 | 4–8 | 3–4 | 8–4 | 9–4 | 8–5 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | — | L bowl | W bowl | |
| Recruiting rank | #19 | #40 | #32 | #29 | #61 | #37 | |
| Style — pass rate | |||||||
| Pass rate | 47.5 | 46.5 | 38.5 | 39.3 | 44.9 | 43.8 | |
| Coordinators | |||||||
| OC | Chip Kelly | Justin Frye | Justin Frye | Justin Frye | Chip Kelly | — | |
| DC | Jerry Azzinaro | Jerry Azzinaro | Jerry Azzinaro | Jerry Azzinaro | Bill McGovern | D'Anton Lynn | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||
| Offense | 60 | 30 | 78 | 94 | 95 | 44 | |
| Defense | 20 | 3 | 55 | 40 | 18 | 85 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | |||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 45.9 | 50.0 | 39.8 | 38.8 | 47.5 | 43.6 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 36.8 | 55.7 | 30.3 | 32.5 | 36.8 | 43.3 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 38.6 | 42.9 | 52.4 | 38.9 | 41.5 | 50.0 | |
A typical amount of portal roster-building.
Brings in bigger-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
23 NFL Draft picks: Josh Rosen (2018), Kolton Miller (2018), Kenny Young (2018), Scott Quessenberry (2018), Jordan Lasley (2018), Caleb Wilson (2019), Devin Asiasi (2020), Darnay Holmes (2020) + 15 more
3 player-seasons honored (All-America / national award): Jaelan Phillips (2020), Zach Charbonnet (2022), Laiatu Latu (2023)
2nd-best Oregon tenure of 16 by the numbers.
Followed Mike Bellotti (1995–2008) · succeeded by Mark Helfrich (2013–2016).
19 NFL Draft picks: Patrick Chung (2009), Jairus Byrd (2009), Max Unger (2009), Fenuki Tupou (2009), Ra'Shon Harris (2009), Nick Reed (2009), T.J. Ward (2010), Ed Dickson (2010) + 11 more