The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Carl Franks

Followed Fred Goldsmith. Carl Franks held Duke at Regional Program III for 5 seasons.

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1999–2003 · 1 stint

Career arc

His real stature score, season by season, across every program he’s coached — so a stretch that stays in one tier the whole way can still climb or sink on the line, not just flatten out. Node color marks the tier reached. Which program a stretch belongs to is carried by the shaded lane behind it.

Reached Regional Program in his 1st career season — faster than 20% of the 925 FBS coaches who have ever reached Regional Program (rank #1 of 925 by seasons-to-arrival).

Duke, 5 seasons

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Regional Program III → Regional Program V.

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

0–4 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Bobby Bowden.

Rivalry record

0–4

0.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

3–12

20.0% · margin ≤8

vs. Blue Blood or better

0–4

0.0%

Rivalry ledger

North Carolina0–40%

The toughest matchup

vs. Bobby Bowden0–4

4 meetings, 1999–2002

’99 L’00 L’01 L’02 L

0% win rate across a real, 4-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

0–4 0.0%

Power Program

1–1 50.0%

National Program

1–22 4.3%

Regional Program

3–13 18.8%

Coaching career

1999–2003

Dukecaretaker

Regional Program III → Regional Program III

Carl Franks held Duke at Regional Program III for 5 seasons.

14th-best Duke tenure of 15 by the numbers.

Followed Fred Goldsmith (1994–1998).

3 NFL Draft picks: Lennie Friedman (1999), Chris Combs (2000), Andrew Strojny (2004)

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