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Todd Graham

In just his first season at the University of Hawai‘i, Todd Graham led the Rainbow Warriors to a bowl victory over Houston in the New Mexico Bowl. It marked the 11th time a Graham-led team was bowl eligible and his sixth bowl victory as a collegiate head coach.

Graham, who was formally introduced as UH's 24th head football coach on January 22, 2020, earned his 100th career victory in UH's New Mexico Bowl win. Also last season, he became the first UH coach to win his head coaching debut since Bob Wagner in 1987 after Hawai‘i victory over Fresno State.

Graham arrived in Manoa with 12 years of head coaching experience at the FBS level, most recently with Arizona State. While at ASU, he led the Sun Devils to five bowl appearances in six years. Graham complied 46 wins, the most in a six-year span in program history and put him third all-time in wins. He was also the only head coach to lead ASU to bowl eligibility in each of his first four seasons and his five bowl appearances is second most in program history.
 
Graham also found tremendous success during stops at Rice (2006), Tulsa (2007-10) and Pittsburgh (2011) with an innate ability to turn programs around and develop players and coaches alike for future success.
 
CAREER RECORD
  • Overall: 100-65 (13 seasons)
  • Hawai‘i: 5-4 (1 season)
 
ACCOLADES
  • 2013 Pac-12 Coach of the Year
  • 2006 C-USA Coach of the Year
 
COACHING EXPERIENCE
  • Hawai‘i, Head Coach (2020-present)
  • Arizona State, Head Coach (2012-17
  • Pittsburgh, Head Coach (2011)
  • Tulsa, Head Coach (2007-10), Defensive Coordinator (2003-05)
  • Rice, Head Coach (2006)
  • West Virginia, Co-Defensive Coordinator (2001-02)
  • Allen High School (Texas), Head Coach (1995-2000)
  • Carl Albert High School (Texas), Head Coach (1994)
  • East Central University, Defensive Coordinator (1991-93)
  • Poteet High School (Texas), Defensive Coordinator (1988-90)

A PROVEN WINNER
  • Ten bowl appearances
  • Has led 11 of his 13 teams to bowl eligibility.
  • Is one of just 27 current FBS coaches with 100 career wins.
  • Won 10 or more games in five of his 13 seasons.
  • Finished nationally ranked three times, including a No. 12 ranking in 2014.
  • Won four conference divisional titles.
  • Named conference Coach of the Year twice.
  • Led Rice to its first bowl game in 45 years in first season as head coach.
  • Led Hawai‘i to just its second mainland bowl win ever in his first year.

A PROLIFIC OFFENSE
  • His Tulsa teams led the nation in total offense in consecutive years in 2007 (543.9 ypg) and 2008 (569.9) and ranked in the top six in scoring three times, averaging better than 40 points per game.
  • His teams have averaged 35.9 points per game over 13 years, while his Arizona State squads scored 50 or more points 16 times during his tenure in Tempe.
  • Coached the only team in NCAA history to boast a 5,000-yard passer, a 1,000-yard rusher, and three 1,000-yard receivers in a single season (Tulsa, 2007).
 
AN AGGRESSIVE DEFENSE
  • In his first year at UH, the Warriors led the Mountain West with 17 takeaways, including 12 interceptions (17th in NCAA).
  • During his six-year span at Arizona State, the Sun Devils were second in the nation in sacks per game (3.10) and tackles-for-loss (7.7) per game, trailing just Clemson.
  • The Sun Devils scored 20 defensive touchdowns during his tenure  (16 interception returns; four fumble returns), behind just Ohio St. (25), Alabama (22), and Boise St. (22).
  • ASU forced 143 turnovers under Graham, including 91 interceptions, 10th in the nation.
 
A TALENT DEVELOPER
  • While at Arizona State, his student-athletes garnered 51 Pac-12 all-conference honors while 30 were either selected in the NFL Draft or signed free agent contracts.
 
AN EDUCATOR
  • Hawai‘i had a school-record 40 student-athletes recognized as academic all-conference by the Mountain West in Graham’s first season.
  • Arizona State posted a team grade point average of over 3.00 for the first time in program history.
 
AN EXTENSIVE COACHING TREE
  • Twelve of Graham’s former assistant coaches went on to head coaching positions.
  • Eight former assistants are current head coaches including Gus Malzahn (UCF), Mike Norvell (Florida State), Jay Norvell (Nevada), Billy Napier (Louisiana), Chris Ball (Northern Arizona), Chip Lindsey (Troy), Jake Spavital (Texas State), and Ryan Silverfield. (Memphis).
 
ALMA MATER
  • East Central University (1987)
 
HOMETOWN
  • Mesquite, Texas

PERSONAL
  • Wife – Penni; Children – Bo, Hank, Natalie, Haylee, Dakota and Michael Todd Jr.

GRAHAM'S YEAR-BY-YEAR RECORD
  Year   School   Overall   Conference   Place   Note
  2006   Rice   6-6   6-2 (C-USA)   2nd - West   Owls won just 1 game the year prior
  2007   Tulsa   10-4   6-3 (C-USA)   1st - West   No. 1 offense in the NCAA
  2008   Tulsa   11-3   7-2 (C-USA)   T1st - West   School-record 11 wins
  2009   Tulsa   5-7   3-5 (C-USA)   3rd - West
  2010   Tulsa   10-3   6-2 (C-USA)   T1st - West   AP Final Poll: No. 24
  2011   Pittsburgh   6-6   4-3 (Big East)   4th
  2012   Arizona State   8-5   5-4 (Pac-12)   T2nd - South   AS' first winning record since '07
  2013   Arizona State   10-4   8-1 (Pac-12)   1st - South   AP Final Poll: No. 21
  2014   Arizona State   10-3   6-3 (Pac-12)   T2nd - South   AP Final Poll: No. 12
  2015   Arizona State   6-7   4-5 (Pac-12)   4th - South   Sixth straight bowl as head coach
  2016   Arizona State   5-7   2-7 (Pac-12)   T4th - South
  2017   Arizona State   7-5   6-3 (Pac-12)   2nd - South   3rd Top 2 finish in Pac-12 South
  2020   Hawai‘i   5-4   4-4 (MW)   5th   New Mexico Bowl champions
  100-65  67-44