Chris Thomsen

Texas Tech On February 3, 2012, it was announced that Thomsen would be leaving his position at Arizona State to accept the position of offensive line coach for the Texas Tech Red Raiders On December 8, 2012, Red Raiders head coach Tommy Tuberville resigned to take the same position with the Cincinnati Bearcats football program, and two days later Thomsen was named interim head coach replacing Tuberville. Thomsen lead the team to a victory in the 2012 Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas against Minnesota.

Arizona State Following the bowl victory, Arizona State hired Thomsen once more to be their running backs coach. As of March 19, 2013 Thomsen was moved to offensive line coach for the Sun Devils. Also on the staff was offensive coordinator Mike Norvell, who had played at Central Arkansas during Thomsen's tenure there. After the 2016 season Thomsen departed Arizona State to become the offensive line coach at Texas Christian University under Gary Patterson.

TCU Thomsen coached the offensive line at TCU for three seasons.

Florida State At the end of the 2019 season he left TCU to be reunited with Norvell, the new head coach at Florida State University. Thomsen served as acting head coach for a single game after Norvell tested positive for the coronavirus.

Head coaching record