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Scrappy Moore

Scrappy Moore went 14–⁠20 as a head coach in the games on file: 1946 at Chattanooga, 1947 at Chattanooga, 1948 at Chattanooga and 1950 at Chattanooga. His full head-coaching career isn’t in our records. Wikipedia’s season articles record one season differently (1950, 1–⁠9); by them his record is 14–⁠25.

Record
14–⁠20 games on file
Seasons
4
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Hall of Fame
1980 inducted
Best season
1946 5–⁠5

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1359 in 1948
SeasonSchoolRecordAP final
1946Chattanooga5–⁠5
1947Chattanooga4–⁠6
1948Chattanooga4–⁠5
1949: not a college head coach
1950Chattanooga1–⁠4 (Wikipedia: 1–⁠9)

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 teams60–⁠6
Against top-10 teams20–⁠2
Decided by 8 points or fewer41–⁠3
At home1811–⁠7
On the road163–⁠13
As our Elo’s favorite1312–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog212–⁠19

His own 34 games on file, 1946–⁠1950, 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
Bob Neyland 1946–⁠19500–⁠4Tennessee4
Wallace Butts 1946–⁠19480–⁠3Georgia3
John Vaught 1947–⁠19500–⁠3Ole Miss3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Tennesseeseries40–⁠4
Daytonseries33–⁠0
Tennessee Techseries33–⁠0
Georgiaseries30–⁠3
Ole Missseries30–⁠3
NC Stateseries20–⁠2
Mississippi Stateseries20–⁠2
Miamiseries20–⁠2