The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Earl Brown

Followed Carl Voyles. Earl Brown slid Auburn from National Program III to Regional Program I in 3 seasons.

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1948–1950 · 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).

Auburn, 3 seasons

−8.2

Regional Program I → Regional Program II.

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.

1–4 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Bobby Dodd.

Rivalry record

1–4–1

16.7% · 2 rivals

One-score games

1–4–3

12.5% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Georgia0–2–10%

Alabama1–233%

The toughest matchup

vs. Bobby Dodd0–3

3 meetings, 1948–1950

’48 L’49 L’50 L

0% win rate across a real, 3-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

Power Program

1–9 10.0%

National Program

1–9 10.0%

Regional Program

0–2 0.0%

Coaching career

1948–1950

Auburncaretaker

National Program III → Regional Program I

Earl Brown slid Auburn from National Program III to Regional Program I in 3 seasons.

16th-best Auburn tenure of 16 by the numbers.

Followed Carl Voyles (1944–1947) · succeeded by Ralph Jordan (1951–1975).

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