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Robert Ward

Robert Ward went 2–⁠17 as a head coach, 1967–⁠1968, at Maryland.

Record
2–⁠17 career
Seasons
2
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1968 2–⁠8

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1317 in 1968
SeasonSchoolRecordAP final
1967Maryland0–⁠9
1968Maryland2–⁠8

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 ranked teams20–⁠2
Against top-10 teams20–⁠2
Against rivals40–⁠4
Conference games132–⁠11
Decided by 8 points or fewer51–⁠4
At home92–⁠7
On the road90–⁠9
At neutral sites10–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite21–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog171–⁠16

His own 19 games on file, 1967–⁠1968, 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 Carolinaseries21–⁠1
South Carolinaseries21–⁠1
NC Stateseries20–⁠2
Wake Forestseries20–⁠2
Syracuseseries20–⁠2
Penn Stateseries20–⁠2
Clemsonseries20–⁠2
Virginiaseries20–⁠2