Steve Addazio
Followed Mike Bobo. Steve Addazio held Colorado State at Regional Program III for 2 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 National Program in his 3rd career season — faster than 25% of the 675 FBS coaches who have ever reached National Program (rank #454 of 675 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.
1–1 against his rivals. Winless in 7 tries against Dabo Swinney.
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
11th-best Colorado State tenure of 18 by the numbers.
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on defense.
Followed Mike Bobo (2015–2019) · succeeded by Jay Norvell (2022–2025).
| Season | 2020 | 2021 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||
| Record | 1–3 | 3–9 | |
| Postseason | — | — | |
| Recruiting rank | #102 | #88 | |
| Style — pass rate | |||
| Pass rate | 43.2 | 43.5 | |
| Coordinators | |||
| OC | Joey Lynch | Jon Budmayr | |
| DC | Chuck Heater | Chuck Heater | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||
| Offense | 12 | 40 | |
| Defense | 78 | 33 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | |||
| 1st-down pass% | 34.0 | 42.0 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 30.0 | 40.0 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 33.3 | 32.7 | |
Barely touches the portal — recruits and develops his own.
Brings in bigger-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
1 NFL Draft pick: Trey McBride (2022)
1 player-season honored (All-America / national award): Trey McBride (2021)
15th-best Boston College tenure of 18 by the numbers.
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and outperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
Followed Frank Spaziani (2009–2012) · succeeded by Jeff Hafley (2020–2023).
| Season | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||||
| Record | 7–6 | 7–6 | 3–9 | 7–6 | 7–6 | 7–5 | 6–6 | |
| Postseason | — | L bowl | — | W bowl | L bowl | — | L bowl | |
| Recruiting rank | — | #51 | #60 | #78 | #67 | #71 | #63 | |
| Style — pass rate | ||||||||
| Pass rate | — | 27.7 | 33.2 | 34.3 | 37.3 | 37.7 | 31.6 | |
| Coordinators | ||||||||
| OC | — | Ryan Day | Todd Fitch | Scot Loeffler | Scot Loeffler | Scot Loeffler | Mike Bajakian | |
| DC | — | Don Brown | Don Brown | Jim Reid | Jim Reid | Jim Reid / Anthony Campanile | Bill Sheridan | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||||
| Offense | — | 65 | 6 | 1 | 33 | 10 | 52 | |
| Defense | — | 60 | 100 | 92 | 90 | 80 | 17 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | ||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | 20.6 | 24.4 | 30.8 | 23.9 | 28.7 | 24.8 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | 14.7 | 20.0 | 27.5 | 25.4 | 28.4 | 23.7 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | 35.6 | 22.2 | 33.3 | 31.5 | 53.8 | 47.2 | |
19 NFL Draft picks: Andre Williams (2014), Kevin Pierre-Louis (2014), Nate Freese (2014), Kaleb Ramsey (2014), Ian Silberman (2015), Andy Gallik (2015), Brian Mihalik (2015), Justin Simmons (2016) + 11 more
11th-best Temple tenure of 18 by the numbers.
Followed Al Golden (2006–2010) · succeeded by Matt Rhule (2013–2016).
5 NFL Draft picks: Muhammad Wilkerson (2011), Jaiquawn Jarrett (2011), Bernard Pierce (2012), Evan Rodriguez (2012), Tahir Whitehead (2012)