Tally Stevens, head coach at BYU
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Tally Stevens

Tally Stevens went 6–⁠15 as a head coach, 1959–⁠1960, at BYU.

Record
6–⁠15 career
Seasons
2
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1959 3–⁠7

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1365 in 1959
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1959BYU3–⁠7T–5th
1960BYU3–⁠8T–5th

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 gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams10–⁠1
Against rivals41–⁠3
Conference games144–⁠10
Decided by 8 points or fewer63–⁠3
At home83–⁠5
On the road133–⁠10
As our Elo’s favorite73–⁠4
As our Elo’s underdog143–⁠11

His own 21 games on file, 1959–⁠1960, 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
Colorado Stateseries21–⁠1
Montanaseries21–⁠1
Utah Stateseries21–⁠1
Denverseries21–⁠1
Arizona Stateseries20–⁠2
New Mexicoseries20–⁠2
Utahseries20–⁠2
Wyomingseries20–⁠2

Career

YearsTeamJob
1949Morgan HS (UT) high schoolHead coach
1950–⁠55East HS (UT) high schoolHead coach
1956–⁠58BYUAssistant coach
1959–⁠60BYUHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Tally Stevens
Worked under (1)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Harold KoppBYU1956–⁠58Assistant 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.