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He's done fine in first games for the most part. by KeoughCharles05

Not great, but fine. 2011 USF was part of an overall trend of dumb Kelly games that seems to have faded away. We're still getting blown out with some regularity, but at least its to good teams now, and not Tulsa or USF.

First game results
2010 - Beat Purdue 23-12
2011 - Lost to USF 20-23
2012 - Beat Navy 50-10
2013 - Beat Temple 28-6
2014 - Beat Rice 48-17
2015 - Beat Texas 38-3
2016 - Lost to Texas 47-50
2017 - Beat Temple 49-16
2018 - Beat Michigan 24-17
2019 - Beat Louisville 35-17
2020 - Beat Duke 27-13

9-2. No real pattern there. Plenty of convincing wins over bad teams, but both losses were to bad teams (though in 2016, we were also a bad team). Best win would be 2018 Michigan.

After time off? (* indicates post-season). Excludes openers.
2020 FSU - W 42-26
2020 UNC - W 31-17
2020 Clem - L 10-34*
2020 Bama - L 14-31*
2019 UNM - W 66-14
2019 Michigan - L 14-45
2019 ISU - W 33-9*
2018 Navy - W 44-22
2018 Clem - L 3-30*
2017 USC - W 49-14
2017 LSU - W 21-17*
2016 Miami - W 30-27
2015 Temple - W 24-20
2015 tOSU - L 28-44*
2014 Cuse - W 31-15
2014 Navy - W 49-39
2014 LSU - W 31-28*
2013 USC - W 14-10
2013 BYU - W 23-13
2013 Rutgers - W 29-16*
2012 Miami - W 41-3
2012 Bama - L 14-42*
2011 USC - L 17-31
2011 FSU - L 14-18*
2010 Utah - W 28-3
2010 Miami - W 33-17*

Overall 18-8. Postseason 5-6. Regular season 13-2 (2019 UM, 2011 USC).