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Ben Martin

Ben Martin went 102–⁠116–⁠10 as a head coach, 1956–⁠1977, at Virginia and Air Force.

Record
102–⁠116–⁠10 career
Seasons
22
Schools
2
Final AP top 10
1 season
Best season
1958 9–⁠0–⁠2, No. 6

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1619 in 1970
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1956Virginia3–⁠78th
1957Virginia3–⁠6–⁠16th
1958Air Force9–⁠0–⁠2Cotton Bowl T6
1959Air Force5–⁠4–⁠1
1960Air Force4–⁠6
1961Air Force3–⁠7
1962Air Force5–⁠5
1963Air Force7–⁠4Gator Bowl L
1964Air Force4–⁠5–⁠1
1965Air Force3–⁠6–⁠1
1966Air Force4–⁠6
1967Air Force2–⁠6–⁠2
1968Air Force7–⁠3
1969Air Force6–⁠4
1970Air Force9–⁠3Sugar Bowl L16
1971Air Force6–⁠4
1972Air Force6–⁠4
1973Air Force6–⁠4
1974Air Force2–⁠9
1975Air Force2–⁠8–⁠1
1976Air Force4–⁠7
1977Air Force2–⁠8–⁠1

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.

Players he coached

Every player from his seasons with a Heisman top-five finish, a national award, consensus All-America honors or a first-round pick. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams396–⁠30–⁠3
Against top-10 teams243–⁠18–⁠3
Against rivals4524–⁠19–⁠2
Conference games113–⁠8
Bowls and playoffs30–⁠2–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer8841–⁠37–⁠10
At home10552–⁠48–⁠5
On the road10844–⁠60–⁠4
At neutral sites156–⁠8–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite9460–⁠31–⁠3
As our Elo’s underdog13442–⁠85–⁠7

His own 228 games on file, 1956–⁠1977, 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
Eddie Crowder 1963–⁠19732–⁠8Colorado10
Lloyd Eaton 1962–⁠19703–⁠4–⁠1Wyoming8
Milo Lude 1962–⁠19695–⁠1–⁠1Colorado State7
Dan Devine 1959–⁠19771–⁠6Missouri, Notre Dame7
Bill Barnes 1959–⁠19644–⁠2UCLA6
Bob Devaney 1958–⁠19653–⁠2Wyoming, Nebraska5
Thomas Cahill 1967–⁠19733–⁠2Army5
George Welsh 1973–⁠19772–⁠3Navy5
John Ralston 1965–⁠19701–⁠4Stanford5
Ara Parseghian 1964–⁠19740–⁠5Notre Dame5

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Wyomingseries178–⁠7–⁠2
Coloradoseries164–⁠12
Colorado Stateseries1511–⁠3–⁠1
Armyseries135–⁠7–⁠1
Navyseries115–⁠6
UCLAseries104–⁠5–⁠1
Arizonaseries96–⁠3
Oregonseries92–⁠6–⁠1

Career

YearsTeamJob
1949–⁠54NavyAssistant coach
1956–⁠57VirginiaHead coach
1958–⁠77Air ForceHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Ben Martin

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (2)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
George SauerNavy1949Assistant coach
Eddie ErdelatzNavy1950–⁠54Assistant coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (4)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Pepper RodgersAir Force, 1958–⁠59: backfield coachKansas, UCLA, Georgia Tech, Memphis Showboats, Memphis Mad Dogs
Frank EllwoodAir Force, 1959–⁠61: assistant coachMarshall, Georgia Southern
Homer SmithAir Force, 1961–⁠64: backfield coachDavidson, Pacific, Army
Frank GanszAir Force, 1964–⁠66: assistant coachKansas City Chiefs

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.