List of college football coaches with 20 ties

This is a list of college football coaches with 20 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—the last tie game at the top level of college football occurred on November 25, 1995, between Wisconsin and Illinois.[3] Without a change in game rules, no new members will be added to this list,[4] and there are no active efforts to repeal tiebreaking rules.[5]

Coach Howard Hancock achieved the highest percentage of tie football games in college football. He ended his career with the Illinois State Redbirds.

"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

This section considers only coaches who appear on the list.

Tenure

The coach with the longest tenure is Amos Alonzo Stagg, who coached for 55 seasons and 555 games. Coach Stagg and Glenn "Pop" Warner are the only two entrants who began coaching before 1900, while no entrant was active after the 1954 season. Butch Cowell had the shortest tenure, at 21 years. Cowell and Howard Hancock had the fewest games coached, at 180 each.

Percentages

Howard Jones registered the highest winning percentage, at 73.3%, while Frank Dobson has the lowest winning percentage, at 49.6%, the only coach below 50%. Coach Hancock recorded the highest percentage of tie games, at 14.4%. A total of five coaches produced at least one tie game out of every ten games played (10%). Coach Stagg had the lowest percentage of tie games, at 6.3%.

College football coaches with 20 (or more) career ties
Head coach First year Last year Total years[lower-alpha 1] Games coached Wins Losses Ties Win %[lower-alpha 2] Tie %[lower-alpha 3]
Amos Alonzo Stagg189219465555533019035.626.063
Ray Morrison191519482826312910133.553.125
Pop Warner189519384445631810632.732.070
Cleveland L. Abbott19231954323262029727.661.083
Howard Hancock1921194422180916326.578.144
Robert E. Vaughan19191945272241158524.567.107
Butch Cowell1915193621180876823.553.129
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. Many college football programs were suspended during World War I and World War II.
  2. Winning percentage is calculated with ties counting as a ½ loss and a ½ win.
  3. 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. Archived from the original on March 4, 2015. Retrieved 2010-06-20 – via Wayback Machine.
  3. Rittenberg, Adam (November 10, 2016). "Sometimes history isn't always pretty as the CFB's last tie shows". ESPN.com. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
  4. ESPN "Ties sparked controversy, debate" by Ivan Maisel, June 28, 2010
  5. Maisel, Ivan (June 28, 2010). "Ties sparked controversy, debate". ESPN.com. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
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