Terry Bowden
Followed Matt Viator. Terry Bowden slid UL Monroe from Regional Program V to Regional Program VI in 3 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.
14–13 against his rivals. Just 1–6 against Frank Solich.
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
10th-best UL Monroe tenure of 11 by the numbers.
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on defense.
Followed Matt Viator (2016–2020) · succeeded by Bryant Vincent (2024–2026).
| Season | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 4–8 | 4–8 | 2–10 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | |
| Recruiting rank | #112 | #128 | #125 | |
| Style — pass rate | ||||
| Pass rate | 41.5 | 44.2 | 45.4 | |
| Coordinators | ||||
| OC | Rich Rodriguez | Matt Kubik | Matt Kubik | |
| DC | Zac Alley | Vic Koenning | Vic Koenning | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | 14 | 19 | 3 | |
| Defense | 26 | 24 | 21 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | 30.7 | 48.0 | 46.4 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 33.9 | 44.0 | 41.1 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 28.2 | 37.0 | 41.0 | |
A typical amount of portal roster-building.
Brings in smaller-than-position-typical players than most.
A typical class-year mix of incoming transfers.
5th-best Akron tenure of 9 by the numbers.
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and outperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
Followed Rob Ianello (2010–2011) · succeeded by Tom Arth (2019–2021).
| Season | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||||
| Record | 1–11 | 5–7 | 5–7 | 8–5 | 5–7 | 7–7 | 4–8 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | W bowl | — | L bowl | — | |
| Recruiting rank | — | — | #112 | #126 | #129 | #128 | #125 | |
| Style — pass rate | ||||||||
| Pass rate | — | — | 59.2 | 40.9 | 51.0 | 49.3 | 49.0 | |
| Coordinators | ||||||||
| OC | — | — | A. J. Milwee | A. J. Milwee | A. J. Milwee | A. J. Milwee | A. J. Milwee | |
| DC | — | — | Chuck Amato | Chuck Amato | Chuck Amato | Chuck Amato | Todd Stroud | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||||
| Offense | — | — | 11 | 21 | 26 | 11 | 5 | |
| Defense | — | — | 71 | 82 | 50 | 35 | 73 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | ||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | 65.1 | 42.6 | 57.0 | 51.2 | 52.0 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | 48.6 | 29.6 | 40.0 | 30.4 | 50.0 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | 25.6 | 24.4 | 40.6 | 29.0 | 18.9 | |
2 NFL Draft picks: Jatavis Brown (2016), Ulysees Gilbert III (2019)
7th-best Auburn tenure of 16 by the numbers.
Followed Pat Dye (1981–1992) · succeeded by Tommy Tuberville (1999–2008).
16 NFL Draft picks: Fred Baxter (1993), James Willis (1993), Chris Gray (1993), Wayne Gandy (1994), James Bostic (1994), Anthony Redmon (1994), Frank Sanders (1995), Mike Pelton (1995) + 8 more