Mike Cavan

Head coach, SMU, 1997 to 2001

College career22-3418 official wins · 4 vacated

Program liftNo. 594tied · of 1,290 tenures since 1937

Now

Career arc

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.

4-6 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against June Jones.

Rivalry record

4-6

40.0% · 2 rivals

One-score games

7-10

41.2% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Rice3-260%

TCU1-420%

The toughest matchup

vs. June Jones0-3

3 meetings, 1999–2001

’99 L’00 L’01 L

0% win rate across a real, 3-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.

Performance by opponent class

Power Program

0-1 0.0%

National Program

4-14 22.2%

Regional Program

17-19 47.2%

Building the roster

Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Roster ownership
2The NFL pipeline

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1997-2001) 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.

The NFL pipeline

3Drafted

players drafted into the NFL off his teams here. None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here.

0 roster-verified · 3 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Player	Pos	NFL team	Note
1999	R4.22	Donald Mitchell	Defensive Back	Tennessee Titans	Estimated
1999	R6.21	Jacoby Rhinehart	Defensive Back	Arizona Cardinals	Estimated
1998	R6.08	Chris Bordano	Linebacker	New Orleans Saints	Estimated

A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.