Ed Chlebek

Ed Chlebek went 26–⁠51 as a head coach, 1976–⁠1982, at Eastern Michigan, Boston College and Kent State.

Record
26–⁠51 career
Seasons
7
Schools
3
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1977 8–⁠3

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1534 in 1980
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1976Eastern Michigan2–⁠99th
1977Eastern Michigan8–⁠3T–4th
1978Boston College0–⁠11
1979Boston College5–⁠6
1980Boston College7–⁠4
1981Kent State4–⁠77th
1982Kent State0–⁠1110th

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 teams51–⁠4
Against top-10 teams40–⁠4
Against rivals158–⁠7
Conference games318–⁠23
Decided by 8 points or fewer238–⁠15
At home3818–⁠20
On the road377–⁠30
At neutral sites21–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite1912–⁠7
As our Elo’s underdog5814–⁠44

His own 77 games on file, 1976–⁠1982, 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
Frank Maloney 1978–⁠19802–⁠1Syracuse3
Neil Wheelwright 1978–⁠19802–⁠1Holy Cross3
Dennis Stolz 1977–⁠19821–⁠2Bowling Green3
Dick Bedesem 1978–⁠19801–⁠2Villanova3
Jackie Sherrill 1978–⁠19800–⁠3Pittsburgh3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Bowling Greenseries41–⁠3
Ohioseries41–⁠3
Ball Stateseries41–⁠3
Central Michiganseries41–⁠3
Holy Crossseries32–⁠1
Massachusettsseries32–⁠1
Syracuseseries32–⁠1
Armyseries32–⁠1

Other roles

From each season’s Wikipedia article.

Career

YearsTeamJob
1974Detroit Wheels WFLAssistant coach
1974–⁠75Notre DameAssistant coach
1976–⁠77Eastern MichiganHead coach
1978–⁠80Boston CollegeHead coach
1981–⁠82Kent StateHead coach
1983Toronto Argonauts CFLOffensive coordinator
1984Oklahoma Outlaws USFLOffensive coordinator

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Ed Chlebek

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (2)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Ara ParseghianNotre Dame1974Assistant coach
Dan DevineNotre Dame1975Assistant coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (2)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Lloyd CarrEastern Michigan, 1976–⁠77: assistant coachMichigan
Gerry DiNardoEastern Michigan, 1977: defensive line and offensive line coachVanderbilt, LSU, Indiana, Birmingham Thunderbolts
Other assistants under him (1)
CoachWith him
Tom OlivadottiBoston College, 1978–⁠79: defensive coordinator and linebackers 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.