Ike Armstrong

Head coach, Utah, 1936 to 1949

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

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.

14-9 against his rivals. Just 1-2 against Frank Potts.

Rivalry record

14-9-3

53.8% · 2 rivals

One-score games

17-15-10

40.5% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Colorado6-8-140%

BYU8-1-273%

The toughest matchup

vs. Frank Potts1-2

3 meetings, 1940–1945

’40 W’44 L’45 L

33% 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

1-5 16.7%

National Program

12-10 54.5%

Regional Program

50-9 84.7%

Building the roster

Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Roster ownership
2The NFL pipeline

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1936-1949) predates 2021, when transfer-portal tracking begins in this database. Portal usage cannot be measured for this tenure at all -- this is not the same as '0% portal'.

“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.

The NFL pipeline

at least5Drafted

players drafted into the NFL off his teams here (a floor — see the note below). None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here.

At least 5 — his 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949 seasons predate the modern 7-round draft, so this table’s pre-1994 pick counts are a floor, not a full count, for those seasons.

0 roster-verified · 5 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Note
1949	R4.32	Estimated
1946	R5.36	Estimated
1944	R4.28	Estimated
1939	R6.39	Estimated
1938	R6.42	Estimated

A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.