Matt Rhule won two games at Temple during his first season as head coach in 2013. The Owls posted 10 victories in 2015 and 2016.
He won just a single game at Baylor in 2017, his first year there. The program was dealing with the fallout of sexual assault scandal, the firing of longtime head coach Art Briles and the transferring of just about everybody of note. Two seasons later, the Bears were 11-3.
Rhule would give the NFL a try after that, only to find the cruel reality that he and his style weren’t built for it (let alone without a quality quarterback).