32 Facts About Mack Brown

William Mack Brown was born on August 27,1951 and is an American former college football coach.

Mack Brown is perhaps more well known for his tenure at the University of Texas at Austin, where he coached the Texas Longhorns from 1998 until 2013, winning two Big 12 Conference championships, and a national championship in 2005.

Mack Brown is credited with revitalizing the North Carolina and Texas football programs.

Mack Brown achieved his 200th career win during the 2008 season, making him the first Texas coach to reach that mark.

Mack Brown resigned after the 2013 Alamo Bowl, leaving as the second-winningest coach in program history.

Mack Brown was born as the middle of three boys on August 27,1951, in Cookeville, Tennessee.

Mack Brown was born into a Church of Christ family.

Mack Brown's grandfather, Eddie Watson, was an athlete at Tennessee Tech and a coach at Putnam County High School for more than three decades.

Mack Brown's father, Melvin Brown, was a coach and an administrator.

Mack Brown attended Vanderbilt University before attending Florida State University and graduating in 1974.

Mack Brown later received a graduate degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1976.

Mack Brown was a three-sport star at Putnam County High School, playing football, basketball and baseball.

Mack Brown accepted a football scholarship to Vanderbilt University, where his brother Watson Brown was the starting quarterback.

Mack Brown played for Florida State under head coach Larry Jones.

In 1982, Mack Brown moved to LSU as the quarterbacks coach.

Mack Brown moved back to a role as offensive coordinator for the Oklahoma Sooners during the 1984 season under head coach Barry Switzer.

In 1988, Mack Brown was named the head coach at North Carolina.

Mack Brown coached the Tar Heels to five consecutive bowl games, including UNC's only two New Year's Day bowl games in more than half a century.

Mack Brown spearheaded a major renovation to Kenan Stadium that featured upgraded team facilities and an expansion to 60,000 seats.

Mack Brown was offered the head coaching position at Oklahoma in 1995.

Mack Brown turned the job down and it instead went to Howard Schnellenberger.

Not long after the end of the 1997 season, Mack Brown accepted the head coaching job at Texas.

Mack Brown's detractors felt that with all the resources at his disposal at Texas, combined with the talent he was recruiting from high school programs, that he should have more to show for it than appearances in the Holiday Bowl or Cotton Bowl Classic.

However, in 1999 Mack Brown led Texas to their second Big 12 title game where they were beaten by a higher ranked Nebraska team that they had beaten earlier in the year.

In 2001, Mack Brown took Texas to their 3rd Big 12 title game.

Mack Brown's Longhorns accepted the bid to play in the Rose Bowl.

On November 27,2018, Mack Brown was named head coach at North Carolina after a 5-year absence from coaching and 21 years after he left UNC for Texas.

Shortly after returning to Chapel Hill, Mack Brown convinced Sam Howell, a highly touted high school quarterback from Indian Trail, North Carolina to de-commit from Florida State.

In 2020, Mack Brown led the Tar Heels to a tie for third place in the ACC.

Mack Brown, it appeared, told the team he was quitting, only to immediately walk back the comments the following week in his press conference.

Mack Brown carried this tradition over from his time at Texas; for many years the Texas Tower has been lit burnt orange after Longhorn wins.

In October 2006, Mack Brown made a cameo appearance in the television pilot for Friday Night Lights.