Bill at least beat a decent UCF team (twice) to get a conference championship. (Something Graham was never able to do)
Monty's teams have played up to the level of their competitor in big games @OU and @Texas. We even had a pretty good half against Ohio State before falling apart a minute before going into the locker room. I feel like Monty is much closer to beating some of those schools than Graham ever was. With Graham we would walk into Sooner stadium and look like we didn't practice the entire week.
Your Monty crush is showing.
We have played 6 A5+ (autonomous conferences + Notre Dame) teams since 2013. One of those games were at home. Here are the games vs an A5+ program or top 25 for both coaches.
Todd Graham: 3-6
2007 {10-4}
vs #4 OU 62-21 loss
2008 {11-3}
@ Arkansas 30-23 loss
Bowl vs #22 Ball State 45-13 win
2009 {5-7}
@ #12 OU 45-0 loss
Vs #6 Boise 28-21 loss
Vs #15 Houston 46-45 loss
2010 {10-3 #24}
@ Oklahoma St 65-28 loss
(Cowboys finished 11-2 and ranked top 10)
@ Notre Dame 28-27 win
(Notre Dame was 8-5 won Sun Bowl)
Bowl vs #25 Hawaii 62-35 win
Monty: 0-10
2015 {6-7}
@ #16 OU 52-38 loss
(finished 11-2 top 5)
Vs Houston loss 38-24
(finished 13-1 top 10)
Vs #18 Memphis 66-42 loss
Vs #19 Navy 44-21 loss
2016 {10-3}
@ #4 Ohio St 48-3 loss
@ #13 Houston 38-31 loss
2017 {2-10}
@ #10 Oklahoma St 59-24 loss
Vs #22 Memphis 41-14 loss
@ #23 South Florida 27-20 loss
2018
@ Texas 28-21 loss
In almost half the years Monty has had one more opportunity, no wins, three one score games and five blow outs.
Graham has two top 25 wins and a Notre Dame win in South Bend, three one score games, and three blow outs.