Tom Reed

Tom Reed went 43–⁠43–⁠2 as a head coach, 1978–⁠1985, at Miami (OH) and NC State.

Record
43–⁠43–⁠2 career
Seasons
8
Schools
2
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1978 8–⁠2–⁠1

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1620 in 1978
SeasonSchoolRecordAP final
1978Miami (OH)8–⁠2–⁠1
1979Miami (OH)6–⁠5
1980Miami (OH)5–⁠6
1981Miami (OH)8–⁠2–⁠1
1982Miami (OH)7–⁠4
1983NC State3–⁠8
1984NC State3–⁠8
1985NC State3–⁠8

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 teams61–⁠5
Against top-10 teams40–⁠4
Against rivals2810–⁠18
Conference games5827–⁠30–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer3416–⁠16–⁠2
At home4325–⁠18
On the road4518–⁠25–⁠2
As our Elo’s favorite5534–⁠19–⁠2
As our Elo’s underdog339–⁠24

His own 88 games on file, 1978–⁠1985, 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
Dennis Stolz 1978–⁠19824–⁠0–⁠1Bowling Green5
Herb Deromedi 1978–⁠19822–⁠3Central Michigan5
Brian Burke 1979–⁠19842–⁠3Ohio5
Dick Crum 1978–⁠19851–⁠4North Carolina5
Elliot Uzelac 1978–⁠19813–⁠1Western Michigan4
Chuck Stobart 1978–⁠19811–⁠3Toledo4
Ron Blackledge 1978–⁠19803–⁠0Kent State3
Dwight Wallace 1978–⁠19802–⁠1Ball State3
Ralph Staub 1978–⁠19802–⁠1Cincinnati3
Al Groh 1983–⁠19852–⁠1Wake Forest3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Ohioseries63–⁠3
Kent Stateseries55–⁠0
Bowling Greenseries54–⁠0–⁠1
Cincinnatiseries53–⁠2
Western Michiganseries53–⁠2
Central Michiganseries52–⁠3
Toledoseries52–⁠3
North Carolinaseries51–⁠4

Coaching tree

Tom Reed

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (7)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Tim RoseMiami (OH), 1978–⁠82: defensive coordinatorMiami (OH)
Jim TresselMiami (OH), 1979–⁠80: quarterbacks and wide receivers coachOhio State, Youngstown State
Dana BibleMiami (OH), 1981: wide receivers coach; NC State, 1983–⁠85: quarterbacks and wide receivers coachNC State
Jim HofherMiami (OH), 1981–⁠82: quarterbacks and wide receivers coachBuffalo, Cornell
Dave SteckelMiami (OH), 1982: graduate assistantMissouri State
Tyrone WillinghamNC State, 1983–⁠85: defensive backs and special teams coachStanford, Notre Dame, Washington
Jim CorrigallNC State, 1984–⁠85: outside linebackers coachKent State
Other assistants under him (1)
CoachWith him
Jim BollmanMiami (OH), 1978–⁠82: offensive line coach; NC State, 1983–⁠84: assistant head coach and offensive line coach; 1985: assistant head coach and linebackers 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.