Billy Alton
Billy Alton went 1–8 as a head coach, 1981, at UTEP. Share
- Record
- 1–8 career
- Seasons
- 1
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Best season
- 1981 1–10
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | UTEP interim, final 9 games | 1–8 | 10th |
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 game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Conference games | 7 | 1–6 | 14% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 2 | 1–1 | 50% |
| At home | 4 | 1–3 | 25% |
| On the road | 5 | 0–5 | 0% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 9 | 1–8 | 11% |
His own nine games on file, 1981, 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.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Colorado Stateseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Arizonaseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| San Diego Stateseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| Hawai’iseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| New Mexicoseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| BYUseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| Utahseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| UNLVseries | 1 | 0–1 |
Coaching tree
Assistants who became head coaches
- Matt SimonNorth Texas
- Mike SchultzLamar
Coached under him, later head coaches (2)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Simon | UTEP, 1981: tight ends and linebackers coach | North Texas | |
| Mike Schultz | UTEP, 1981: wide receivers and tight ends coach | Lamar |
Other assistants under him (1)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Greg Brown | UTEP, 1981: graduate assistant |
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.