Bum Phillips

Bum Phillips went 4–⁠5 as a head coach, 1962, at UTEP.

Record
4–⁠5 career
Seasons
1
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1962 4–⁠5

Season by season

SeasonSchoolRecordAP final
1962UTEP4–⁠5

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 rivals22–⁠0
Decided by 8 points or fewer42–⁠2
At home53–⁠2
On the road41–⁠3
As our Elo’s favorite22–⁠0
As our Elo’s underdog72–⁠5

His own nine games on file, 1962, 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
New Mexico Stateseries11–⁠0
New Mexicoseries11–⁠0
Hardin Simmonsseries11–⁠0
Trinity (Texas)series11–⁠0
Arizona Stateseries10–⁠1
Arizonaseries10–⁠1
North Texasseries10–⁠1
West Texasseries10–⁠1

Coaching tree

Bum Phillips

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Jim StanleyUTEP, 1962: assistant coachOklahoma State, Michigan Panthers

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.

Books

Books: Open Library (CC0); most-reissued first, each linked to its page there.