Frank Potts
Frank Potts went 16–8–1 as a head coach, 1940–1945, at Colorado. Share
- Record
- 16–8–1 career
- Seasons
- 3
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Best season
- 1944 6–2
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | Colorado | 5–3–1 | T–2nd | |||
| 1941–43: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 1944 | Colorado | 6–2 | 1st | |||
| 1945 | Colorado | 5–3 | 2nd | |||
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 game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against rivals | 6 | 5–1 | 83% |
| Conference games | 12 | 9–2–1 | 79% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 10 | 4–5–1 | 45% |
| At home | 13 | 8–5 | 62% |
| On the road | 11 | 7–3–1 | 68% |
| At neutral sites | 1 | 1–0 | 100% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 24 | 16–8 | 67% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 1 | 0–0–1 | 50% |
His own 25 games on file, 1940–1945, 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
| Coach | Record | Their schools | Games | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ike Armstrong 1940–1945 | 2–1 | Utah | 3 |
Frank Potts’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 Collegeseries | 4 | 4–0 |
| Utahseries | 3 | 2–1 |
| Denverseries | 3 | 1–1–1 |
| Colorado Stateseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| Utah Stateseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| New Mexicoseries | 2 | 1–1 |
| Fort Warrenseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| BYUseries | 1 | 1–0 |
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | Colorado | Assistant coach | |
| 1940 | Colorado | Head coach | |
| 1944–45 | Colorado | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Myron WithamColorado
Worked under (1)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Myron Witham | Colorado | 1927 | Assistant 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.