Mike Working

Mike Working went 9–⁠11–⁠2 as a head coach, 1980–⁠1981, at App State.

Record
9–⁠11–⁠2 career
Seasons
2
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1980 6–⁠4–⁠1

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1449 in 1980
SeasonSchoolRecordAP final
1980App State6–⁠4–⁠1
1981App State3–⁠7–⁠1

Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against rivals42–⁠2
Conference games145–⁠7–⁠2
Decided by 8 points or fewer112–⁠7–⁠2
At home96–⁠2–⁠1
On the road133–⁠9–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite139–⁠2–⁠2
As our Elo’s underdog90–⁠9

His own 22 games on file, 1980–⁠1981, 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
James Madisonseries22–⁠0
Lenoir Rhyneseries22–⁠0
Chattanoogaseries21–⁠1
Marshallseries21–⁠1
East Tennessee Stateseries21–⁠1
The Citadelseries21–⁠1
Western Carolinaseries21–⁠1
Wake Forestseries20–⁠2

Coaching tree

Mike Working

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (2)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Tommy WestApp State, 1980–⁠81: wide receivers and tight ends coachClemson, Memphis, Chattanooga
Mac BryanApp State, 1981: graduate assistantLees–McRae, Pikeville

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.