BYU Football: Did you know? (Average Wins Per Year)

With another 10 win season in 2011, Brigham Young Cougars head coach Bronco Mendenhall is now averaging 9.4 wins per season.

Did you know that Bronco Mendenhall’s average of 9.4 wins over his seven year career has improved BYU’s average wins per year from 5.7 to 6.0?

After the 2004 season, BYU had 456 wins in 80 seasons of play. The Cougars now have 522 wins in 87 seasons.

Of course, the legendary LaVell Edwards has had the biggest impact on BYU’s average wins per year. When he took over, BYU was averaging 3.68 wins per year. When he retired 29 years later, BYU was averaging 5.66 wins. That is a 1.98 increase in wins per year.

The third coach in BYU history G. Ott Romney had a significant impact on the school’s average wins per season. When he took over in 1928, BYU football was still in its infancy and averaged just 1.83 wins per season. After Romney’s nine seasons, BYU was up to 3.53 wins per season—a jump of 1.7 wins per year.

Eddie Kimball and Tom Hudspeth are the only other coaches to bring an appreciable increase in BYU’s wins per season with a 0.25 and 0.24 increase, respectively.

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