35 Facts About Mack Brown

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

Mack Brown is currently in his second stint as the head football coach for the University of North Carolina, where he first coached from 1988 until departing in 1997, when he left Chapel Hill to become head coach for the University of Texas.

In 2018, Brown was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Two days after Carolina fired Larry Fedora in November 2018, Mack Brown was announced to return as the Tar Heels' head coach after a five-year hiatus from coaching, which he spent as an ESPN analyst.

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

Mack Brown coached the Longhorns to victory against the top-ranked USC Trojans at the 2006 Rose Bowl game to cap off an undefeated season, win a second consecutive Rose Bowl, and the national championship in what has been considered the greatest game in college football history.

Mack Brown's Longhorns defeated Red River Showdown conference rival Oklahoma in 1998,1999,2005,2006,2008,2009, and 2013.

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'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.

Since returning to Chapel Hill, Mack Brown has started a tradition of lighting the Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower Carolina blue after every win.

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.