Best and Worst Pac-10 coaches (by winning pct) in Pac-10 games

(in the BCS era; minimum 8 games)

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coach W L % coach W L %
Chip Kelly 8 1 88.9 Paul Wulff 1 17 05.6
Pete Carroll 62 14 81.6 John Mackovic 3 14 17.6
Mike Belotti 60 31 65.9 Eugene Teevens 5 19 20.8
Jeff Tedford 41 27 60.3 Keith Gilbertson 4 12 25.0
Rick Neuheisel 29 21 58.0 Tom Holmoe 8 24 25.0
Mike Riley 39 29 57.4 Walt Harris 5 12 29.4
Karl Dorrell 24 18 57.1 Tyrone Willingham 25 42 37.3
Dick Tomey 13 11 54.2 Mike Price 16 24 40.0
Dennis Erickson 31 28 52.5 Bill Doba 17 25 40.5
Jim Harbaugh 30 29 50.8 Paul Hackett 10 14 41.7

Stats on all FBS conferences are now available from the BCS database.

On this new page, you can now get win-loss records and scoring data (overall, BCS OOC, non-BCS OOC, and non-FBS opponents)  of any FBS conference in any chosen season or over the entire BCS era.

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Best and Worst SEC coaches (by winning pct) in SEC games

(in the BCS era; minimum 8 games)

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coach W L % coach W L %
Urban Meyer 34 9 79.07 Brad Scott 0 8 00.00
Nick Saban 51 17 75.00 Terry Bowden 1 7 12.50
Mark Richt 52 23 69.33 Woody Widenhofer 4 28 12.50
Phillip Fullmer 62 30 67.39 Ed Orgeron 3 21 12.50
Ron Zook 16 8 66.67 Bobby Johnson 12 52 18.75
Les Miles 28 14 66.67 Gerry DiNardo 3 13 18.75
Jim Donnan 16 8 66.67 Guy Morriss 4 12 25.00
Dennis Franchione 10 6 62.50 Sylvester Croom 10 30 25.00
Steve Spurrier 46 28 62.16 Rich Brooks 16 40 28.57
Tommy Tuberville 55 35 61.11 Bobby Petrino 5 11 31.25

Conferences’ average margin of victory against all FBS OOC opponents

(during the BCS era)

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conference MOV
Big 12 11.81
SEC 11.64
Big Ten 9.18
Big East 6.45
Pac-10 6.43
ACC 4.93
MWC -0.01
CUSA -6.23
WAC -9.57
Big West -13.00
MAC -13.10
Sun Belt -20.13

Aggregate records of all FBS teams during the BCS era are now available …

on the updated BCS Central database page.

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Best and Worst Teams (by pct of wins) within BCS conferences

team W L % team W L %
Texas 82 18 82.00 Duke 12 84 12.50
Oklahoma 81 22 78.64 Baylor 12 84 12.50
Florida 78 23 77.23 Vanderbilt 16 80 16.67
Ohio State 74 22 77.08 Temple 10 38 20.83
Virginia Tech 69 24 74.20 Indiana 23 73 23.96
Florida State 71 26 73.20 Kentucky 28 68 29.17
USC 72 28 72.00 Iowa State 29 67 30.21
Miami (FL) 63 27 70.00 Kansas 30 66 31.25
Michigan 66 30 68.75 Rutgers 26 57 31.33
Georgia 68 31 68.69 Mississippi State 32 65 32.99

Best and Worst Coaches (by pct of wins) in BCS OOC games

(minimum of 10 games against out-of-conference BCS opponents)

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coach W L % coach W L %
Urban Meyer 21 2 91 Brady Hoke 0 16 0
Pete Carroll 26 4 87 Bobby Wallace 0 15 0
Mark Richt 20 4 83 Mark Snyder 0 13 0
Barry Alvarez 13 3 81 Bill Lynch 0 12 0
Bobby Petrino 13 3 81 Phil Bennett 0 11 0
Larry Coker 13 4 76 Jeff Genyk 0 11 0
Jeff Tedford 12 4 75 Mario Cristobal 0 11 0
Chuck Amato 8 3 73 Al Golden 0 11 0
Nick Saban 13 5 72 Turner Gill 0 11 0
Gary Patterson 13 5 72 Joe Hollis 0 11 0

2009 post-season pages moved

Links to the post-season SoS, conference rankings, and pseudo-BCS rankings have been removed from the index page of BCS Central.  However, the pages are still around – use the new links in the previous sentence to access these pages.

The BCS database may now be accessed!

Information on each and every FBS team, during any season of the BCS era (from 1998 onwards) is now available on this new page, which is now linked from the history page.  The data includes win-loss records and points for & against in: all games, conference games, BCS out-of-conference games, and games against FCS teams. Also, if applicable, information will be displayed about a conference championship game, final BCS ranking, and a BCS bowl.

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FBS teams with toughest scheduled OOC games in 2010

This table lists the 2010 out-of-conference opponents of the teams that are in the top-25 of the pre-season Coaches poll.  Louisiana-Monroe is the only team that will face three ranked OOC opponents. San Jose State faces #1 and #12Florida State will meet #3 and #8, Wyoming plays #4 and #5, and Oregon State goes up against #5 and #7.  Other teams playing 2 top-25 OOC opponents in the 2010 regular season include Boise State, East Carolina, South Florida, Marshall, Miami (FL), Pittsburgh, Iowa State, UNLV, and Notre Dame.

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top-25 matchups in the 2010 regular season

The table is based on the pre-season Coaches poll – road games are in red and OOC games are in bold.

customized item team rank ranks of top-25 opponents
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kitchen towel combo Ohio State 2 10, 12, 13, 14
boxed note cards Florida 3 1, 16, 20, 21
paper & desk caddy Texas 4 8, 9
solar-powered calculator Boise State 5 6, 22
art glass clock Virginia Tech 6 5, 13, 17, 18
coasters with wire mesh tray TCU 7 24a
parking sign Oklahoma 8 4, 20
party lights Nebraska 9 4
alarm clock Iowa 10 2, 12, 14
children’s dinner set Oregon 11 22
glow pen Wisconsin 12 2, 10
plush football dog toy Miami (FL) 13 2, 6, 17, 18, 20
golf gift set Penn State 14 1, 2, 10
dog jersey Pittsburgh 15 13, 24a, 24b
portable picnic table LSU 16 1, 3, 18, 23, 24b
Yellowjackets player night light Georgia Tech 17 6, 13, 18, 21
pool/beach/bath towel North Carolina 18 6, 13, 16, 17, 20
rolling cooler Arkansas 19 1, 16, 21, 23
round clock Florida State 20 3, 8, 13, 18
acrylic tapestry Georgia 21 3, 17, 23
garden gnome Oregon State 22 5, 11
garden flag Auburn 23 1, 16, 21
dog leash Utah 24a 7, 15
pet bowl and mat West Virginia 24b 15, 16

2010 pre-season Coaches poll released

It is here, and the first-place votes page has been updated for the 2010 season.  Oklahoma made the biggest upward move from 2009, as it now ranked #8, but did not place in the final 2009 poll.  Conversely, Cincinnati was #9 at the end of last season and fell out of the top 25 pre-season (but just to #26).

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largest average margins of victories and losses in BCS OOC games

Not surprisingly, all of the top 10 teams in MoV in BCS OOC games are AQ teams, while none of those with the largest average margin of losses are.    However, Louisville was formerly not an automatic qualifier, and Temple was – in fact, Temple is the only team to have moved from AQ to non-AQ status in the BCS era.

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rank team MoV team MoL
1 USC 16.35 Louisiana-Monroe 34.94
2 LSU 13.67 Western Kentucky 32.57
3 Nebraska 10.36 Florida Atlantic 31.44
4 Louisville 9.09 Temple 30.88
5 Georgia 7.97 Texas-El Paso 30.67
6 Oklahoma 6.58 New Mexico State 29.71
7 Virginia Tech 6.33 Florida International 29.65
8 Texas 6.21 North Texas 29.30
9 Penn State 5.90 Louisiana-Lafayette 28.85
10 Ohio State 5.86 Eastern Michigan 28.23

Yardage records unearthed from database work.

Several new records, dealing with rushing and passing yardage totals in BCS bowl games,  have been added to the relevant BCS Central page.  These new items were made possible because work has begun on building and populating a BCS Central database, which is by far the largest project in this site’s history.