5 days ago · Below, here is a brief(-ish) history of the great coaching rivalry of our time. Chapter 0: The prologue. Technically speaking, Harbaugh and Carroll (or Carroll and Harbaugh) first crossed paths on Oct. 11, 1987, when Harbaugh was a rookie quarterback for the Chicago Bears and Carroll a third-year secondary coach for the Minnesota Vikings.Harbaugh's Bears went 2-0 against Carroll's Vikings that ...

2 days ago · The rivalry between Carroll and Harbaugh goes back to the 2000s, when the former was at USC and the latter was at Stanford. In 2007, when Harbaugh was in his first season at Stanford and still relatively unknown nationally, the Cardinal came into the Coliseum as 41-point underdogs. Stanford stunned the Trojans 24-23, one of the biggest upsets ...

5 days ago · Carroll became head man of the Seahawks in 2010 and - well, well, well - Harbaugh takes over the San Francisco 49ers in 2011. These two had unfinished business and it went down in the NFC West for ...

2 days ago · Jim Harbaugh has been a thorn in Pete Carroll's side: From 2007 through 2012, Jim Harbaugh hounded Pete Carroll at two different jobs. Harbaugh’s first San Francisco 49er teams were better and more polished than Carroll’s Seattle Seahawks. Harbaugh got …

6 days ago · The Pete Carroll vs. Jim Harbaugh rivalry has returned. They were rivals when Carroll coached USC and Harbaugh coached Stanford. They were rivals when Carroll led the Seahawks to a Super Bowl ...

6 days ago · In the NFL, the last true coaching rivalry we saw like this was the one between Pete Carroll and Jim Harbaugh from 2011 through 2014, when Carroll was the Seattle Seahawks' head coach, and ...

Jim Harbaugh and Pete Carroll had one of football’s best overnight rivalries during their seven years together as head coaches in the Pac-10 and NFC West. You remember "what’s your deal?"

5 days ago · A very brief refresher on the Carroll and Harbaugh rivalry: • In 2009 while Carroll was coaching USC and Harbaugh was at Pac-10 rival Stanford, the Cardinal attempted a two-point conversation ...

4 days ago · Seattle reached the postseason 10 of Carroll's 14 seasons. During his time at the helm of the USC Trojans, he went 97-19 (83.6 win percentage) with seven bowl game victories.

Sep 13, 2013 · Back in 2007 when he had just landed the Stanford job, Harbaugh hand-picked then-USC coach Pete Carroll as his foil and bitterest coaching counterpart.