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Pat Dye, head coach at East Carolina, Wyoming and Auburn
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Pat Dye

Pat Dye went 153–⁠62–⁠5 as a head coach, 1974–⁠1992, at East Carolina, Wyoming and Auburn. His 1983 Auburn team claims the national title.

Record
153–⁠62–⁠5 career
Seasons
19
Schools
3
National titles
1 claimed: 1983
Hall of Fame
2006 inducted
Best season
1983 11–⁠1, No. 3

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1769 in 1989
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1974East Carolina7–⁠4T–3rd
1975East Carolina8–⁠32nd
1976East Carolina9–⁠21st
1977East Carolina8–⁠3
1978East Carolina9–⁠3Independence Bowl W
1979East Carolina7–⁠3–⁠1
1980Wyoming6–⁠5T–5th
1981Auburn5–⁠6T–6th
1982Auburn9–⁠3T–3rdTangerine Bowl W14
1983Auburn11–⁠11stSugar Bowl W3
1984Auburn9–⁠4T–3rdLiberty Bowl W14
1985Auburn8–⁠45thCotton Bowl L
1986Auburn10–⁠2T–2ndCitrus Bowl W6
1987Auburn9–⁠1–⁠21stSugar Bowl T7
1988Auburn10–⁠2T–1stSugar Bowl L8
1989Auburn10–⁠2T–1stHall of Fame Bowl W6
1990Auburn8–⁠3–⁠14thPeach Bowl W19
1991Auburn5–⁠68th
1992Auburn5–⁠5–⁠15th (West)

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. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams4921–⁠24–⁠4
Against top-10 teams2811–⁠15–⁠2
Against rivals7746–⁠29–⁠2
Conference games10363–⁠37–⁠3
Bowls and playoffs107–⁠2–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer8240–⁠37–⁠5
At home11293–⁠17–⁠2
On the road8647–⁠37–⁠2
At neutral sites2213–⁠8–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite175141–⁠31–⁠3
As our Elo’s underdog4512–⁠31–⁠2

His own 220 games on file, 1974–⁠1992, 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
Johnny Majors 1981–⁠19915–⁠4–⁠2Tennessee11
Bill Curry 1981–⁠19899–⁠0Georgia Tech, Alabama9
Vince Dooley 1981–⁠19885–⁠3Georgia8
Bobby Bowden 1983–⁠19904–⁠3Florida State7
Bobby Ross 1974–⁠19876–⁠0The Citadel, Maryland, Georgia Tech6
Art Baker 1974–⁠19865–⁠1Furman, The Citadel, East Carolina6
Bob Thalman 1974–⁠19795–⁠1VMI6
Jim Root 1974–⁠19795–⁠1William & Mary6
Jim Brakefield 1974–⁠19794–⁠2App State6
Jim Tait 1974–⁠19794–⁠2Richmond6

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Mississippi Stateseries129–⁠3
Georgiaseries127–⁠5
Alabamaseries126–⁠6
Floridaseries125–⁠7
Southern Missseries118–⁠3
Tennesseeseries115–⁠4–⁠2
Georgia Techseries77–⁠0
Richmondseries75–⁠2

Career

YearsTeamJob
1965–⁠73AlabamaLinebackers coach
1974–⁠79East CarolinaHead coach
1980WyomingHead coach
1981–⁠92AuburnHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Pat Dye

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (1)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Bear BryantAlabama1965–⁠73Linebackers coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (15)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Jim FullerEast Carolina, 1974: offensive line coachJacksonville State
Watson BrownEast Carolina, 1974–⁠75: quarterbacks and wide receivers coachCincinnati, Rice, Vanderbilt, UAB, Austin Peay, Tennessee Tech
Wright AndersonEast Carolina, 1974–⁠76: assistant coachElon
Al KincaidEast Carolina, 1976–⁠79: offensive coordinator; Wyoming, 1980: offensive coordinatorWyoming, Arkansas State
Bobby WallaceEast Carolina, 1977–⁠79: defensive backs coach; Wyoming, 1980: defensive backs coach; Auburn, 1981–⁠85: defensive backs coachTemple, North Alabama, West Alabama
Neil CallawayEast Carolina, 1978–⁠79: assistant coach; Wyoming, 1980: assistant coach; Auburn, 1981–⁠92: offensive line coachUAB
Larry BlakeneyAuburn, 1981–⁠90: assistant coachTroy
Tim StowersAuburn, 1981: student assistant; 1982–⁠83: junior varsity coachGeorgia Southern, Rhode Island, Southwest Mississippi
Jack CroweAuburn, 1982–⁠85: offensive coordinatorArkansas, West Alabama, Jacksonville State
Buddy GreenAuburn, 1985: assistant coachChattanooga
Pat SullivanAuburn, 1986–⁠91: quarterbacks coachTCU, Samford
Reggie HerringAuburn, 1986–⁠91: linebackers coachArkansas
Steve CampbellAuburn, 1988–⁠89: graduate assistantSouth Alabama, Southwest Mississippi, Delta State, Mississippi Gulf Coast, Central Arkansas
Tim BeckmanAuburn, 1988–⁠89: graduate assistantToledo, Illinois
Tommy BowdenAuburn, 1991–⁠92: offensive coordinatorTulane, Clemson
Other assistants under him (3)
CoachWith him
Wayne BoltWyoming, 1980: assistant coach; Auburn, 1981–⁠85: tight ends coach; 1990: offensive assistant
Frank OrgelAuburn, 1981–⁠85: defensive coordinator
Wayne HallAuburn, 1986–⁠92: defensive 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.