Mike Bobo
Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 0-3
2015Arizona BowlL 23-28
2016Famous Idaho Potato BowlL 50-61
2017New Mexico BowlL 28-31
Coordinator years
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.
How to read this. Coordinator seasons come from our coordinator career records; head-coaching-era seasons are the same unit's FBS-relative percentile for those years, regardless of who coached it, read directly from the staff assignments record. A role change (a “hinge”) is a fact, never a performance verdict — only the season-by-season data itself is colored by outcome.
Fans
No fan talk about him on our list yet. His record is on Career.
Stats
Big games
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.
1-10 against his rivals. Just 1-4 against Craig Bohl.
ATS is his record against the spread: did his team beat the closing betting line, winning by more than it or losing by less? Lines start in 2013; a dash means fewer than 6 of those games had one. One-score games carry no spread record: a big favorite that wins a close game has almost always failed to cover, so that number would say nothing about the coach.
Signature games
These losses tie at the model's current max -- an editorial pick among a real tie, not a clean ranking.
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
Ran more than the situation called for under Bobo.
197 run and pass snaps at South Carolina, 2020–2020, 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.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 449 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2004–2025.
Building the roster
Four numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
His 2 ranked Colorado State classes of his own have averaged #85 nationally — best #84, worst #86.
His class — he had the full signing cycle
Rank is each signing class’s national recruiting rank (#1 is best). Only a class he had a full signing cycle to build counts as his.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2020 roster arrived on his watch — 121 of 121 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2020-2020) 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.
Size up front
Size up front
Offensive linemen on his Colorado State rosters have averaged 3 lb heavier than the FBS average (2015–2019). In the three seasons before he arrived, Colorado State’s line averaged within a few pounds of the FBS average.
Average listed weight of every offensive lineman on each season’s roster, holdovers included, against every FBS roster that season (2010 on; a program needs 3+ seasons under him to appear). Weights are the ones programs publish, and programs list differently. This describes size only — not scheme, and not quality.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 8 of 16 signees (50%) across his 2020–2020 tenure, drawn from 7 states in all. Next: GA (2).
75% of his signees come from SC and its 2 border states (GA 2, NC 2).
Off this map: 2 signees to the north (IL, MD) and 1 to the south (FL).
- median hometown distance
- 124 mi
- within 100 mi
- 40%
- within 500 mi
- 83%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 3%
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.
News
No outlet on our list has written about him by name yet. His record is on Career.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
Followed Will Muschamp (2016–2020) · succeeded by Shane Beamer (2021–now).
Underperforms his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
5th-best Colorado State tenure of 18 by the numbers.
Followed Jim McElwain (2012–2014) · succeeded by Steve Addazio (2020–2021).
| Season | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||
| Record | 7-6 | 7-6 | 7-6 | 3-9 | 4-8 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | L bowl | L bowl | — | — | |
| Coordinators | ||||||
| OC | Will Friend | Will Friend | Will Friend | Dave Johnson | Dave Johnson | |
| DC | Tyson Summers | Marty English | Marty English | John Jancek | John Jancek | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||
| Offense | 64 | 94 | 86 | 38 | 46 | |
| Defense | 28 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 49 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 39.5 | 30.1 | 42.5 | 52.5 | 51.5 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 34.8 | 33.7 | 39.1 | 47.0 | 45.0 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 30.0 | 29.6 | 34.1 | 19.2 | 35.0 | |
Outperforms his recruiting talent on offense and underperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
4 NFL Draft picks: Rashard Higgins (2016), Cory James (2016), Michael Gallup (2018), Olabisi Johnson (2019)
Was he good?
The data leans negative, where the data can separate from zero: every conclusive reading points the same way.
-1.6 pts at Colorado State · #786 of 1290 · middle half