In response to the two Mendenhall posts and his coaching
by @Matt_Quinney on Jan 10, 2012 4:53 PM PST
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I thought I would check out the record in the "big games" over his tenure. Big games being defined as ranked teams, bowl games, and games against "BCS competition." Here's what I found.
Wins and Losses in "big games" in the Bronco Mendenhall era
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2005 |
Boston College 3-20 |
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TCU 50-51 (OT) |
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@ Notre Dame 23-49 |
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Utah 34-41 (OT) |
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2005 Bowl |
California 28-35 |
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2006 |
Tulsa 49-24 |
2006 |
@ Arizona 13-16 |
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@ #15 TCU 31-17 |
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@ #23 Boston College 23-30 (OT) |
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@ Utah 33-31 |
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2006 Bowl |
Oregon 38-8 |
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2007 |
Arizona 20-7 |
2007 |
@ #13 UCLA 17-27 |
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TCU 27-22 |
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@ Tulsa 47-55 |
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Utah 17-10 |
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2007 Bowl |
UCLA 17-16 |
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2008 |
@ Washington 28-27 |
2008 |
@ #24 TCU 7-32 |
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UCLA 59-0 |
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@ #7 Utah 24-48 |
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2008 Bowl |
Arizona 21-31 |
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2009 |
# 3 Oklahoma 14-13 |
2009 |
Florida State 28-54 |
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#21 Utah 26-23 |
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# 8 TCU 7-38 |
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2009 Bowl |
#18 Oregon State 44-20 |
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2010 |
Washington 23-17 |
2010 |
@ Florida State 10-34 |
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@ #4 TCU 3-31 |
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@ #22 Utah 16-17 |
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2010 Bowl |
UTEP 52-24 |
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2011 |
@ Ole Miss 14-13 |
2011 |
@ #24/21 Texas 16-17 |
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Utah 10-54 |
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TCU 28-38 |
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2011 Bowl |
Tulsa 24-21 |
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And then to break it down into easy-to-understand, meaningful stats.
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Wins |
Losses |
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Ranked Teams |
4 |
8 |
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Bowl Games |
5 |
2 |
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Highest Rank |
# 3 OU (2009) |
# 4 TCU (2009) |
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Utah |
3 |
4 |
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TCU |
2 |
5 |
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PAC 12 |
7 |
5 |
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BIG 12 |
1 |
1 |
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SEC |
1 |
0 |
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BC/ND/FSU |
0 |
5 |
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Overall Record |
17 |
20 |
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Tulsa?
Why the two Tulsa regular season games?
by eldermars@yahoo.com on Jan 11, 2012 1:37 PM PST reply actions
I don’t think they were ranked either time …. but a W and an L in each column, so 16-19 instead of 17-20
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Nope
I don’t even have a valid reason for that, except we just rematched them in the bowl and that might be why. Doesn’t change the data much though.
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by @Matt_Quinney on Jan 11, 2012 3:39 PM PST up reply actions
Basically...
Seems like the analysis from the past two articles was pretty spot on. Mendenhall is a good to very good coach, but not great.
If you figure that in the coming years, BYU will play 6 to 8 “big games” a year, they will go about .500 in them. That will put them around 8 or 9 wins a year. With great years getting to 10 or 11, and down years with only 6 or 7.
That’s not too bad… Not sure many places would be talking about replacing a coach with those results. And as the other articles pointed out, there is no obviously better candidate to replace him with…
by apolloceres on Jan 11, 2012 6:21 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
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