Matt Wells
Offensive Analyst at Mississippi State since 2026.
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- Seasons coached
- 30
- First season
- 1997
- Teams
- 9
Career
13 stints
1990s
- 1997–2001NavyQuarterbacksWide Receivers
2000s
- 2002–2006TulsaTight EndsRecruiting Coordinator
- 2007–2008New MexicoWide ReceiversRecruiting Coordinator
- 2009LouisvillePassing Game CoordinatorQuarterbacks
2010s
- 2010New MexicoWide Receivers
- 2011Utah StateQuarterbacksRecruiting Coordinator
- 2012Utah StateOffensive CoordinatorQuarterbacks
- 2013–2018Utah StateHead Coach
- 2019–2021Texas TechHead Coach
2020s
- 2022–2023OklahomaOffensive Analyst
- 2024Kansas StateCo-Offensive CoordinatorAssistant Head CoachQuarterbacks
- 2025Kansas StateOffensive CoordinatorAssistant Head CoachQuarterbacks
- 2026–presentMississippi StateOffensive Analyst
Coaching tree
10 mentors, 51 protégés, 4 branches — a branch is a protégé who went on to hold a head job.
MentorsProtégés
Became a head coachShowing up to 7 per row
Relationships
Coached under
69
- 2026Jeff LebbyCoached under · Mississippi State
- 2024–2025Chris KliemanCoached under · Kansas State
- 2022–2023Brent VenablesCoached under · Oklahoma
- 2021Dave ScholzMentored · Texas Tech
- 2021Nick HoltMentored · Texas Tech
- 2021Sonny CumbieMentored · Texas Tech
- 2020–2021Derek JonesMentored · Texas Tech
- 2020–2021Julian WilsonMentored · Texas Tech
- 2020–2021Kevin CosgroveMentored · Texas Tech
- 2020–2021Mark TommerdahlMentored · Texas Tech
- 2019Dave ScholzMentored · Texas Tech
- 2019–2021David YostMentored · Texas Tech
- 2019–2021DeAndre SmithMentored · Texas Tech
- 2019Joe LorigMentored · Texas Tech
- 2019–2021Joel FilaniMentored · Texas Tech
54 more, most recent shown first.
Succeeded
16
- 2026Sean GleesonSucceeded by · Kansas State
- 2024Conor RileySucceeded by · Kansas State
- 2024Conor RileySucceeded · Kansas State
- 2023Seth LittrellSucceeded by · Oklahoma
- 2022Joey McGuireSucceeded by · Texas Tech
- 2022Jon CooperSucceeded · Oklahoma
- 2021Sonny CumbieSucceeded by · Texas Tech
- 2019Gary AndersenSucceeded by · Utah State
- 2019Kliff KingsburySucceeded · Texas Tech
- 2019Skyler CassitySucceeded · Texas Tech
- 2018Frank MaileSucceeded by · Utah State
- 2013Gary AndersenSucceeded · Utah State
- 2012Dave BaldwinSucceeded · Utah State
- 2007Dean JacksonSucceeded by · Tulsa
- 2002Ivin JasperSucceeded by · Navy
1 more, most recent shown first.
Tenure
30 seasons
- Utah StateHead coach · 2013–20186
- TulsaPosition coach · 2002–20065
- NavyPosition coach · 1997–20015
- Texas TechHead coach · 2019–20213
- New MexicoPosition coach · 2007–20103
- Kansas StateCoordinator · 2024–20252
- OklahomaAnalyst · 2022–20232
- Mississippi StateAnalyst · 2026 · current1
- Utah StateCoordinator · 20121
- Utah StatePosition coach · 20111
- LouisvilleCoordinator · 20091
Pipeline
4 of 19 coordinators
- 4 seasonsKeith Pattersonunder at Utah State 2018 · head coach at Abilene Christian2022
- 1 seasonKeith Pattersonunder at Texas Tech 2019 · head coach at Abilene Christian2022
- 0 seasonsSonny Cumbieunder at Texas Tech 2021 · head coach at Texas Tech2021
- 0 seasonsFrank Maileunder at Utah State 2016 · head coach at Utah State2018
- 3 seasonsJosh Heupelunder at Utah State 2015 · head coach at UCF2018
Moves
Nothing on the wire for Matt Wells. The wire carries moves published since the register went live; the career above is the record before that.