CollegeFootballDigestfrom CooperSearch
Forrest Gregg, head coach at SMU
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Forrest Gregg

Forrest Gregg went 3–⁠19 as a head coach, 1989–⁠1990, at SMU.

Record
3–⁠19 career
Seasons
2
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1989 2–⁠9

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1353 in 1989
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1989SMU2–⁠99th
1990SMU1–⁠109th

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.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams70–⁠7
Against top-10 teams30–⁠3
Against rivals81–⁠7
Conference games160–⁠16
Decided by 8 points or fewer31–⁠2
At home113–⁠8
On the road110–⁠11
As our Elo’s favorite73–⁠4
As our Elo’s underdog150–⁠15

His own 22 games on file, 1989–⁠1990, 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
North Texasseries21–⁠1
Arkansasseries20–⁠2
Baylorseries20–⁠2
Riceseries20–⁠2
Texas A&Mseries20–⁠2
Houstonseries20–⁠2
Texasseries20–⁠2
TCUseries20–⁠2

Other roles

From each season’s Wikipedia article.

Career

YearsTeamJob
1969Green Bay Packers NFLAssistant coach
1970Green Bay Packers NFLOffensive line coach
1973San Diego Chargers NFLOffensive line coach
1974Cleveland Browns NFLOffensive line coach
1975–⁠77Cleveland Browns NFLHead coach
1979Toronto Argonauts CFLHead coach
1980–⁠83Cincinnati Bengals NFLHead coach
1984–⁠87Green Bay Packers NFLHead coach
1989–⁠90SMUHead coach
1994–⁠95Shreveport Pirates CFLHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Forrest Gregg

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (10)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Doug GerhartCleveland Browns, 1975: wide receivers coachOccidental
Billy KinardCleveland Browns, 1976–⁠77: defensive backs coachOle Miss, Gardner-Webb
Dale LindseyToronto Argonauts, 1979: defensive assistant; Green Bay Packers, 1986–⁠87: linebackers coach; SMU, 1989: defensive coordinatorSan Diego
Frank GanszCincinnati Bengals, 1980: tight ends coach and special teams coordinatorKansas City Chiefs
Herb PaterraGreen Bay Packers, 1984–⁠85: linebackers and special teams coachCharlotte Hornets
Jerry WampflerGreen Bay Packers, 1984–⁠87: offensive line coachColorado State
Tom CoughlinGreen Bay Packers, 1986–⁠87: wide receivers coachBoston College, RIT, Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Giants
Jon TenutaSMU, 1989: defensive backs coach; 1990: defensive coordinator and linebackers coachGeorgia Tech
Tim LewisSMU, 1989–⁠90: defensive backs coachBirmingham Iron
Tom RossleySMU, 1989: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coachSMU
Other assistants under him (3)
CoachWith him
Chuck DickersonToronto Argonauts, 1979: defensive line coach
Lew CarpenterGreen Bay Packers, 1984–⁠85: receivers coach
Larry KueckSMU, 1990: offensive coordinator

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.