List of college football coaches with 20 ties

This is a list of college football coaches with 20 career ties.[1][2] College football coaches who have coached college teams to 20 or more tie games are included in the list. College football has since established "tiebreaking" rules—without a change in game rules, no new members will be added to this list[3] and there are no leaders in the support advocating repeal of the tiebreaking rule.[4]

"College level" is defined as a four-year college or university program in either the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics or the National Collegiate Athletic Association. If the team competed at a time before the official organization of either of the two groups but is generally accepted as a "college football program" it would also be included.

Summary

Tenure

The coach with the longest tenure is Amos Alonzo Stagg, who coached for 55 seasons and 555 games. Coach Stagg and "Pop" Warner were the only two coaches to begin coaching before 1900. No coach on the list was active after the 1954 season. Butch Cowell has the shortest tenure of any coach on the list with 21 seasons.

Win/Loss

The most successful coach on the list is Howard Jones with a win percentage of 73.3%. The least successful was Frank Dobson at 49.6%, the only coach on the list below the .500 mark.

Percentages

Howard Hancock leads the list with the highest percentage or ratio of tie games to total games played at .144. A total of five coaches produced at least one tie game out of every ten games played. Amos Alonzo Stagg has the lowest ratio of tie games to total games at .063.

College football coaches with 20 (or more) career ties

Head coachFirst yearLast yearTotal yearsGames coachedWinsLossesTiesWin %[A 1]Tie %[A 2]
Amos Alonzo Stagg189219465555533019035.626.063
Ray Morrison191519482826312910133.553.125
Glenn Scobey Warner189519384445631810632.732.070
Cleveland L. Abbott19231954323262029727.661.083
Howard Hancock1921194422180916326.578.144
Robert E. Vaughan19191945272241158524.567.107
Butch Cowell1915193621180876924.550.133
Charlie Bachman19191946272341328022.611.094
Howard Jones19081940292791946421.733.075
Dana X. Bible19161946302721866521.722.077
William McAndrew1913193822182828020.505.110
George Evans19131954272281367220.640.088
Frank Dobson191019392824211011220.496.083

Notes

  1. ↑ Winning percentage is calculated with ties counting as a ½ loss and a ½ win.
  2. ↑ Tie percentage is calculated as the number of tie games divided by the total number of games played.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "NCAA Coaching Records" (PDF). NCAA. 2008. pp. 189, 192.
  2. ↑ "All-Time Coaching Records". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2010-06-20.
  3. ↑ ESPN "Ties sparked controversy, debate" by Ivan Maisel, June 28, 2010
  4. ↑ Maisel, Ivan (June 28, 2010). "Ties sparked controversy, debate". ESPN.com. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
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