Buck Shaw

Buck Shaw went 2–⁠6–⁠2 as a head coach in the games on file: 1924 at NC State. His full head-coaching career isn’t in our records.

Record
2–⁠6–⁠2 games on file
Seasons
1
Schools
1
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Hall of Fame
1972 inducted
Best season
1924 2–⁠6–⁠2

Season by season

SeasonSchoolRecordAP final
1924NC State2–⁠6–⁠2

Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against rivals31–⁠2
Conference games61–⁠4–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer31–⁠0–⁠2
At home62–⁠3–⁠1
On the road40–⁠3–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite21–⁠0–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog81–⁠6–⁠1

His own 10 games on file, 1924, 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
Dukeseries11–⁠0
Virginia Techseries11–⁠0
Marylandseries10–⁠0–⁠1
North Carolinaseries10–⁠1
Wake Forestseries10–⁠1
Penn Stateseries10–⁠1
Davidsonseries10–⁠0–⁠1
South Carolinaseries10–⁠1

Coaching tree

Buck Shaw

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Gus TebellNC State, 1924: assistant coachNC State, Virginia

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.