College

Andersen began his football career playing center at Ricks College (now Brigham Young University-Idaho) in Rexburg, Idaho, where he received first-team junior college All-America honors in 1984. He transferred to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where he lettered two years for the Utes and graduated in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in political science.

Coaching career

Utah State

Andersen was the head coach at Utah State for four seasons, beginning with 4-8 records in 2009 and 2010. His first winning season at Utah State came in 2011 (7-6) and his fourth and final year was the most successful, as the 2012 Aggies won 11 games and lost only two (the two losses were by 2 and 3 points against Wisconsin and BYU, respectively).

Wisconsin

Andersen was introduced as the new head coach at Wisconsin (which beat Utah State in an early season game in 2012) on December 21, 2012 to replace Bret Bielema, who left for Arkansas. After Andersen decided to leave Utah State for the Wisconsin job, he called every one of his players at Utah State individually to inform them personally of his decision. In 2013, Andersen's first win as a Wisconsin coach was a 45-0 win against Massachusetts. Andersen's final 2013 record was 9-4.

The 2014 regular season ended with the Badgers taking 1st place in the West division with a 10-2 record. Wisconsin played Ohio State for the conference title in the 2014 Big Ten Championship Game where the Badgers lost to Ohio State 59-0. Andersen left Wisconsin four days later, having taken the vacant head coaching position at Oregon State. Andersen cited family as his rationale for taking the Oregon State position while it was reported by some media outlets, such as Fox Sports and Sports Illustrated, that Andersen was frustrated with the University's high academic standards for athletes. Those reports turned out to be accurate, and were confirmed by Andersen in January 2015.

Andersen had to pay a $3 million buyout for departing within the first two years of his contract, which was set through January 2019.

Oregon State

Andersen was announced as the new head coach of Oregon State on December 10, 2014. Andersen replaced the winningest coach in Oregon State history, Mike Riley, who left for the same position at Nebraska.

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	Coaches#	AP°
Southern Utah Thunderbirds (NCAA Division I-AA independent)
2003	Southern Utah	4-7
Southern Utah:		4-7
Utah State Aggies (Western Athletic Conference)
2009	Utah State	4-8	3-5	T-5th
2010	Utah State	4-8	2-6	7th
2011	Utah State	7-6	5-2	T-2nd	L Famous Idaho Potato
2012	Utah State	11-2	6-0	1st	W Famous Idaho Potato	17	16
Utah State:		26-24	16-13
Wisconsin Badgers (Big Ten Conference)
2013	Wisconsin	9-4	6-2	2nd	L Capital One	21	22
2014	Wisconsin	10-3	7-1	1st	Outback‡	13‡	13‡
Wisconsin:		19-7	13-3	‡
Oregon State Beavers (Pac-12 Conference)
2015	Oregon State	2-10	0-9	6th
2016	Oregon State	0-0	0-0
Oregon State:		2-10	0-9
Total:		51-48

‡Andersen left for Oregon State before the bowl game and the ranking reflects the team's ranking at the time of Andersen's departure.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]