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Chris Scelfo

Followed Tommy Bowden. Chris Scelfo held Tulane at Regional Program II for 8 seasons.

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1999–2006 · 1 stint
Tulane
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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.

Stature score reached, by season of his head-coaching careerTULANERegional Programthe building-block levelTulane, 1999: 3-8, Regional Program II1999Tulane, 2000: 6-5, Regional Program II2000Tulane, 2001: 3-9, Regional Program II2001Tulane, 2002: 8-5, Regional Program II2002Tulane, 2003: 5-7, Regional Program II2003Tulane, 2004: 5-6, Regional Program II2004Tulane, 2005: 2-9, Regional Program III2005Tulane, 2006: 4-8, Regional Program IV2006-1.5One point per coached season, in career order; dashed segments are program changes — spacing is not proportional to calendar time

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).

Tulane, 8 seasons
−1.5
Regional Program II → Regional Program IV.

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.

0–2 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Art Briles.

Rivalry record
0–2
0.0% · 1 rival
One-score games
8–18
30.8% · margin ≤8
vs. Blue Blood or better
0–1
0.0%
Rivalry ledger
LSU0–20%
The toughest matchup
vs. Art Briles0–4
4 meetings, 2003–2006
’03 L’04 L’05 L’06 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
0–1 0.0%
Power Program
0–6 0.0%
National Program
4–21 16.0%
Regional Program
25–29 46.3%

Coaching career

1999–2006
Tulanecaretaker
Regional Program II → Regional Program II
Chris Scelfo held Tulane at Regional Program II for 8 seasons.

17th-best Tulane tenure of 23 by the numbers.

Followed Tommy Bowden (1997–1998) · succeeded by Bob Toledo (2007–2011).

8 NFL Draft picks: Shaun King (1999), JaJuan Dawson (2000), Bernard Robertson (2001), Patrick Ramsey (2002), J.P. Losman (2004), Mewelde Moore (2004), Roydell Williams (2005), Anthony Cannon (2006)

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