Chauncey Simpson, head coach at Missouri
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Chauncey Simpson

Chauncey Simpson went 12–⁠14–⁠2 as a head coach, 1943–⁠1945, at Missouri.

Record
12–⁠14–⁠2 career
Seasons
3
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1945 6–⁠4

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1537 in 1943
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1943Missouri3–⁠52nd
1944Missouri3–⁠5–⁠23rd
1945Missouri6–⁠41stCotton Bowl L

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.

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.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams41–⁠3
Against top-10 teams30–⁠3
Against rivals1610–⁠4–⁠2
Conference games1510–⁠3–⁠2
Bowls and playoffs10–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer114–⁠5–⁠2
At home116–⁠4–⁠1
On the road134–⁠8–⁠1
At neutral sites42–⁠2
As our Elo’s favorite149–⁠4–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog143–⁠10–⁠1

His own 28 games on file, 1943–⁠1945, 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

CoachRecordTheir schoolsGames
Henry Shenk 1943–⁠19452–⁠1Kansas3
Mike Michalske 1943–⁠19452–⁠0–⁠1Iowa State3
Snorter Luster 1943–⁠19451–⁠1–⁠1Oklahoma3

Chauncey Simpson’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Kansas Stateseries33–⁠0
Iowa Stateseries32–⁠0–⁠1
Nebraskaseries32–⁠1
Kansasseries32–⁠1
Oklahomaseries31–⁠1–⁠1
Minnesotaseries30–⁠3
Ohio Stateseries30–⁠3
Michigan Stateseries21–⁠1

Career

YearsTeamJob
1928–⁠33KirksvilleAssistant coach
1934–⁠42MissouriAssistant coach
1943–⁠45MissouriHead coach
1946–⁠54MissouriAssistant coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Chauncey Simpson
Worked under (2)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Frank CarideoMissouri1934Assistant coach
Don FaurotMissouri1935–⁠54Assistant 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.