Bunny Oakes
Bunny Oakes went 43–69–4 as a head coach, 1931–1948, at Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and Grinnell. Share
Two seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1947–48 at Grinnell. They’re marked in the table.
- Record
- 43–69–4 career
- Seasons
- 14
- Schools
- 4
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Best season
- 1937 8–1, No. 17
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | Montana | 1–6 | 10th | |||
| 1932 | Montana | 2–7 | 10th | |||
| 1933 | Montana | 3–4 | 10th | |||
| 1934 | Montana | 2–5–1 | 10th | |||
| 1935 | Colorado | 5–4 | 1st | |||
| 1936 | Colorado | 4–3 | 4th | |||
| 1937 | Colorado | 8–1 | 1st | Cotton Bowl L | 17 | |
| 1938 | Colorado | 3–4–1 | T–2nd | |||
| 1939 | Colorado | 5–3 | 1st | |||
| 1940: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 1941 | Wyoming | 2–7–1 | 6th | |||
| 1942 | Wyoming | 3–5 | 7th | |||
| 1943–45: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 1946 | Wyoming | 1–8–1 | 7th | |||
| 1947 | Grinnell * | 3–5 | T–4th | |||
| 1948 | Grinnell * | 1–7 | 8th | |||
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. * A season our game records don’t credit to him; its record is the article’s.
Players he coached
Every player from his seasons with a Heisman top-five finish, a national award, consensus All-America honors or a first-round pick. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against rivals | 25 | 13–11–1 | 54% |
| Conference games | 68 | 26–40–2 | 40% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 33 | 11–18–4 | 39% |
| At home | 46 | 26–17–3 | 60% |
| On the road | 53 | 13–39–1 | 25% |
| At neutral sites | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 48 | 30–15–3 | 66% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 52 | 9–42–1 | 18% |
His own 100 games on file, 1931–1946, 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.
Against other head coaches
| Coach | Record | Their schools | Games | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ike Armstrong 1935–1946 | 4–3–1 | Utah | 8 | |
| E. Lowell Romney 1933–1946 | 3–5 | Utah State | 8 | |
| Harry Hughes 1935–1941 | 5–1 | Colorado State | 6 | |
| Edwin Kimball 1937–1946 | 3–2 | BYU | 5 | |
| Schubert R. Dyche 1931–1934 | 3–1 | Montana State | 4 | |
| Don Faurot 1935–1939 | 1–3 | Missouri | 4 | |
| Leo Calland 1931–1934 | 0–4 | Idaho | 4 | |
| O.E. Hollingbery 1931–1934 | 0–4 | Washington State | 4 | |
| William Saunders 1936–1938 | 1–2 | Denver | 3 | |
| Jim Yeager 1941–1946 | 0–3 | Colorado | 3 |
Bunny Oakes’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Colorado Stateseries | 8 | 5–3 |
| Utahseries | 8 | 4–3–1 |
| Utah Stateseries | 8 | 3–5 |
| Denverseries | 8 | 3–5 |
| BYUseries | 6 | 4–2 |
| Colorado School of Minesseries | 6 | 4–0–2 |
| Montana Stateseries | 4 | 3–1 |
| Colorado Collegeseries | 4 | 3–1 |
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1924–25 | Tennessee | Line coach | |
| 1926–30 | Nebraska | Line coach | |
| 1931–34 | Montana | Head coach | |
| 1935–39 | Colorado | Head coach | |
| 1941–46 | Wyoming | Head coach | |
| 1947–48 | Grinnell | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Mark BanksTennessee
- Ernest BeargNebraska
- Dana BibleNebraska
Assistants who became head coaches
- Adolph LewandowskiNebraska
Worked under (3)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Banks | Tennessee | 1924–25 | Line coach | |
| Ernest Bearg | Nebraska | 1926–28 | Line coach | |
| Dana Bible | Nebraska | 1929–30 | Line coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adolph Lewandowski | Montana, 1931–34: assistant coach | Nebraska |
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.