Head coach · Miami · belt games 1999–2001
Butch Davis
Coached Miami (1999–2000) in seasons with a belt game. 9 belt games in all: 7 with the belt in hand, 2 trying to take it.
Butch Davis was on a sideline for 9 belt games between 1999 and 2001, at Miami. He took the belt once and held it for 818 days across one reign, the tenth-most of any head coach in the belt’s history.
He won it on October 7, 2000, Miami 27–24 over Florida State.
His longest reign ran 818 days with Miami, beginning October 7, 2000, and was defended 31 times along the way.
Across his career he coached seven successful defenses, and never lost the belt in a game he coached.
He also coached one game with the belt on the other sideline and came away without it. The closest was 31–21 to Florida State on October 9, 1999.
Started under this coach
9 games, newest first
Head coaches from the College Football Data API’s coaching records, matched by team and season. A reign counts for the coach in charge the season it began; a mid-season change isn’t split.