Wayne Sutton, head coach at LSU
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Wayne Sutton

Wayne Sutton went 3–⁠5 as a head coach, 1917, at LSU.

Record
3–⁠5 career
Seasons
1
Schools
1
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1917 3–⁠5

Season by season

SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1917LSU3–⁠5T–10th

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 rivals51–⁠4
Conference games31–⁠2
Decided by 8 points or fewer10–⁠1
At home52–⁠3
On the road31–⁠2
As our Elo’s favorite63–⁠3
As our Elo’s underdog20–⁠2

His own eight games on file, 1917, 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
Ole Missseries11–⁠0
Louisianaseries11–⁠0
Mississippi Collegeseries11–⁠0
Arkansasseries10–⁠1
Texas A&Mseries10–⁠1
Mississippi Stateseries10–⁠1
Sewaneeseries10–⁠1
Tulaneseries10–⁠1

Career

YearsTeamJob
1914–⁠16WashingtonAssistant coach
1917LSUHead coach
1923–⁠29WashingtonAssistant coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Wayne Sutton
Worked under (2)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Gilmour DobieWashington1914–⁠16Assistant coach
Enoch BagshawWashington1923–⁠29Assistant 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.