I deliberately avoided coaches who coached elite programs like Stoops at Oklahoma, Brown at Texas, Paterno at Penn St., Osborne at Nebraska and Bowden at FSU. I know that there is no perfect comparison to BYU, but I wanted to see if there was a trend of things getting better or worse. I'm not sure there is any trend.

Frank Beamer at VT

First 10 years .544 win pct. 2-2 bowl record. 5 top 25 finishes.
From 1997 to present: .732 win pct. 7-10 bowl record. 13 top 25 finishes.

Kirk Ferentz at Iowa

First 10 years .569 win pct. 4-3 bowl record 4 top 25 finishes.
2009 to present .605 win pct. 2-2 bowl record 1 top 25 finish.

Dick Tomey at Arizona

First 10 years .582 win pct. 2-3 bowl record. 3 top 25 finishes
From 1997-2000 .625 win pct. 2-0 bowl record. 1 top 25 finish

Sonny Lubick at Colorado St.

First 10 years .688 win pct. 3-4 bowl record. 3 top 25 finishes
From 2003-2007 .400 win pct. 0-2 bowl record. 0 top 25 finishes

Mike Belotti at Oregon

First 10 years .667 win pct. 4-4 bowl record. 4 top 25 finishes
From 2005-2008 .705 win pct. 2-2 bowl record. 3 top 25 finishes

Mike Riley at Oregon St.

First 10 years (not consecutive) .561 win pct. 5-1 bowl record. 3 top 25 finishes
2011 to present .523 win pct. 1-1 bowl record. 1 top 25 finish

Bronco Mendenhall

First 10 years (so far) .699 win pct. 6-3 bowl record. 5 top 25 finishes.