Bob Kappes

Bob Kappes went 3–⁠8 as a head coach, 1978, at Ohio.

Record
3–⁠8 career
Seasons
1
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1978 3–⁠8

Season by season

SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1978Ohio3–⁠8T–5th

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 rivals10–⁠1
Conference games83–⁠5
Decided by 8 points or fewer43–⁠1
At home51–⁠4
On the road62–⁠4
As our Elo’s favorite31–⁠2
As our Elo’s underdog82–⁠6

His own 11 games on file, 1978, 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
Bowling Greenseries11–⁠0
Eastern Michiganseries11–⁠0
Western Michiganseries11–⁠0
Miami (OH)series10–⁠1
Central Michiganseries10–⁠1
Cincinnatiseries10–⁠1
Kent Stateseries10–⁠1
Northern Illinoisseries10–⁠1

Career

YearsTeamJob
1950–⁠57Western Hills HS (OH) high schoolHead coach
1958–⁠77OhioAssistant coach
1978OhioInterim head coach
1979–⁠84OhioAssistant coach
1985–⁠93OhioRecruiting coordinator

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

Coaching tree

Bob Kappes
Worked under (4)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Bill HessOhio1958–⁠77Assistant coach
Brian BurkeOhio1979–⁠84Assistant coach
Cleve BryantOhio1985–⁠89Recruiting coordinator
Tom LichtenbergOhio1990–⁠93Recruiting coordinator

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.