Tim Davis (1st Season)
Offensive Line Coach
Tim enters his first year at Montana State University-Northern as an Offensive line coach. He has over 30 years of coaching experience at the collegiate and NFL levels. Davis has coached in 16 FBS bowl games, including three Rose Bowls, two Orange Bowls and one Sugar Bowl.
In 2017, Davis led an offensive line at Northern Arizona University that allowed a mere four sacks through 10 games. NAU was ranked third in the Big Sky in total offense with 475.5 yards per game. Blake Porter and Tyler Shank both picked up Second Team All-Big Sky honors for a unit that produced 5,230 yards of offense. In his first year at NAU, three of his five linemen earned all-conference honors, while the unit helped produce a 3,000-yard passer, 1,000-yard rusher, and 1,000-yard receiver for only the third time in school history.
After NAU, Davis was an offensive line coach at Florida. Davis guided a unit that finished third in the SEC in rushing offense, averaging 188.1 yards per game, an improvement of 45 yards from the previous season. He coached Xavier Nixon to third-team All-SEC honors from Phil Steele and freshman D.J. Humphries to Sporting News Freshman All-America honors, as well as freshman All-SEC honors.
In 2011 at Utah, he coached a pair of tackles to All-Pac-12 honors, as Tony Bergstrom was selected to the first team and John Cullen was named to the second team. Utah running back John White set a new school single-season rushing record in 2011 with 1,519 rushing yards.
In Davis’ first year with the Miami Dolphins, the offensive line improved from allowing 52 sacks in 2004 to just 26 in 2005. The Dolphins’ offensive line led a rushing attack that averaged 4.3 yards per carry in 2005 and 4.2 in 2006. It was the first time the Dolphins averaged more than 4.0 yards per carry in back-to-back seasons since 1986-87.
While at USC, the Trojans won a pair of national championships and three BCS bowl games. Davis’ offensive lines protected two Heisman Trophy winners at USC in Carson Palmer (2002) and Matt Leinart (2004).
During his second stint at Wisconsin, the Badgers made five bowl appearances in five years, including two Rose Bowls. The UW offensive line paved the way for running back Ron Dayne, who rushed for an NCAA career record 6,397 yards with 63 touchdowns and won the 1999 Heisman Trophy.
