Bob Hicks

Bob Hicks went 1–⁠8 as a head coach, 1957, at Indiana.

Record
1–⁠8 career
Seasons
1
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1957 1–⁠8

Season by season

SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1957Indiana1–⁠89th

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 teams40–⁠4
Against top-10 teams20–⁠2
Against rivals20–⁠2
Conference games60–⁠6
Decided by 8 points or fewer11–⁠0
At home41–⁠3
On the road50–⁠5
As our Elo’s underdog91–⁠8

His own nine games on file, 1957, 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

OpponentGamesRecord
Villanovaseries11–⁠0
Notre Dameseries10–⁠1
Michigan Stateseries10–⁠1
Michiganseries10–⁠1
Minnesotaseries10–⁠1
Ohio Stateseries10–⁠1
Cincinnatiseries10–⁠1
Iowaseries10–⁠1

Career

YearsTeamJob
1953–⁠56WyomingAssistant coach
1957IndianaInterim head coach
1958–⁠72IndianaAssistant coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Bob Hicks
Worked under (2)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Phil DickensWyoming1953–⁠56Assistant coach
Phil DickensIndiana1958–⁠64Assistant coach
John PontIndiana1965–⁠72Assistant 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.