Barry Wilson

Barry Wilson went 13–⁠30–⁠1 as a head coach, 1990–⁠1993, at Duke.

Record
13–⁠30–⁠1 career
Seasons
4
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1991 4–⁠6–⁠1

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1461 in 1990
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1990Duke4–⁠77th
1991Duke4–⁠6–⁠17th
1992Duke2–⁠99th
1993Duke3–⁠8T–7th

Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams151–⁠14
Against top-10 teams30–⁠3
Against rivals203–⁠17
Conference games304–⁠26
Decided by 8 points or fewer187–⁠10–⁠1
At home219–⁠12
On the road224–⁠17–⁠1
At neutral sites10–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite138–⁠5
As our Elo’s underdog315–⁠25–⁠1

His own 44 games on file, 1990–⁠1993, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.

Against other head coaches

CoachRecordTheir schoolsGames
George Welsh 1990–⁠19930–⁠4Virginia4
Ken Hatfield 1990–⁠19930–⁠4Clemson4
Mack Brown 1990–⁠19930–⁠4North Carolina4
Bill Dooley 1990–⁠19921–⁠2Wake Forest3
Dick Sheridan 1990–⁠19920–⁠3NC State3

Barry Wilson’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Wake Forestseries42–⁠2
Marylandseries41–⁠3
NC Stateseries41–⁠3
Georgia Techseries40–⁠4
North Carolinaseries40–⁠4
Clemsonseries40–⁠4
Virginiaseries40–⁠4
Armyseries22–⁠0

National title staffs

Every title staff

The champions’ staffs from 1990 on, as the schools listed them that season: Staff lists: Drew Hoover’s how-many-rings (MIT), from the schools’ media guides and staff pages. Roles as the source words them.

Career

YearsTeamJob
1967–⁠70GeorgiaFreshman coach
1971–⁠73GeorgiaDefensive ends coach
1974–⁠76Ole MissLinebackers coach
1977–⁠82Georgia TechLinebackers coach
1983Tampa Bay Bandits USFLDefensive line coach
1984–⁠85Tampa Bay Bandits USFLDefensive coordinator
1987–⁠89DukeAssistant coach
1990–⁠93DukeHead coach
1996–⁠97FloridaSpecial teams and linebackers coach

Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.

Coaching tree

Worked under

Barry Wilson

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (5)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Vince DooleyGeorgia1967–⁠731967–⁠70: freshman coach; 1971–⁠73: defensive ends coach
Ken CooperOle Miss1974–⁠76Linebackers coach
Pepper RodgersGeorgia Tech1977–⁠79Linebackers coach
Bill CurryGeorgia Tech1980–⁠82Linebackers coach
Steve SpurrierTampa Bay Bandits pro1983–⁠851983: defensive line coach; 1984–⁠85: defensive coordinator
Steve SpurrierDuke1987–⁠89Assistant coach
Steve SpurrierFlorida1996–⁠97Special teams and linebackers coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (3)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Dale StrahmDuke, 1990–⁠93: defensive coordinatorWestern Carolina
Mac McWhorterDuke, 1990: offensive line coachGeorgia Tech, West Georgia
Ted RoofDuke, 1990–⁠93: linebackers coachDuke
Other assistants under him (3)
CoachWith him
Eddie WilsonDuke, 1990–⁠92: offensive coordinator
Buddy GeisDuke, 1993: offensive coordinator
Les KoenningDuke, 1993: wide receivers coach

From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.