From 2005 to 2009, Martin's Lakers football team only lost one regular season game (Hillsdale College, 2009), and only lost two post-season games at the end of the 2007 and 2008 seasons, setting a record for consecutive wins, 48, breaking the previous mark of 29 games also set by the Lakers spanning from 2000 to 2003 by then head coach, Brian Kelly.
From 2005 to 2007, the Lakers under Martin set an all-time NCAA Division II record with 40 consecutive wins, breaking a half-century old mark set by in-state and in-conference rival Hillsdale College.
Martin was the offensive coordinator at Notre Dame for the 2012 season, where the Fighting Irish finished the regular season with a 12–0 record and a berth in the BCS National Championship Game.
On December 3, 2013, it was announced that Martin would be leaving his position at Notre Dame to take over as the head coach at Miami University.[4] In 2019, He won his first MAC championship with an upset win over Central Michigan in the MAC Championship.[5] In 2023, Miami won the East division with a 7-1 conference record with their only loss coming against West champion Toledo.[6][7] On October 21, during the regular season game between the division winners, Miami quarterback Brett Gabbert suffered a season ending leg injury.[8] In spite of that, Miami won their first MAC Championship since 2019 with a 23–14 upset victory in the MAC Championship Game.[9]
