Jeff Horton
Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 1-0
Stats
Big games
Pick a job to see its years on their own.
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.
1-0 against his rivals at Nevada.
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.
2-6 against his rivals at UNLV. Winless in 3 tries against Fisher DeBerry.
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.
3-6 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Barry Alvarez.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Called about what the situation called for.
253 run and pass snaps at Minnesota, 2010–2010, his own games, one row per offensive coordinator. Each cell is how much more often he passed than the rest of FBS did in the same situation (field zone, down, distance, score, quarter, same season), in percentage points.
Pass rate, stint by stint
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next, against the FBS-wide average of 41% pass. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Building the roster
Three numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Followed him here
Nevada→
UNLV1994Players who transferred from his old program to his new one through the portal in the same year he made the move. Name-matching across data sources misses some, so every count is a floor, not an exact number.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2010 roster arrived on his watch — 106 of 106 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2010-2010) predates 2021, when transfer-portal tracking begins in this database. Portal usage cannot be measured for this tenure at all -- this is not the same as '0% portal'.
“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 4 of 20 signees (20%) across his 2010–2010 tenure, drawn from 10 states in all. Next: PA (3).
35% of his signees come from MN and its 4 border states (WI 3).
Off this map: 1 signee to the west (CA).
- median hometown distance
- 353 mi
- within 100 mi
- 34%
- within 500 mi
- 58%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 21%
The map counts signed recruits across his tenure; the distance figures cover his current roster, transfers and walk-ons included. Two different groups, kept separate on purpose.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
Followed Tim Brewster (2007–2010) · succeeded by Jerry Kill (2011–2015).
11th-best UNLV tenure of 12 by the numbers.
Followed Jim Strong (1990–1993) · succeeded by John Robinson (1999–2004).
| Season | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||
| Record | 7-5 | 2-9 | 1-11 | 3-8 | 0-11 | |
| Postseason | W bowl | — | — | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||
| Offense | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Defense | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | — | — | |
3 NFL Draft picks: Henry Bailey (1995), Mike Crawford (1997), Talance Sawyer (1999)
Followed Chris Ault (1992) · succeeded by Chris Ault (1994–1995).
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
-1.6 pts at UNLV · #786 of 1290 · middle half