Jim Tatum

Head coach, Maryland, 1947 to 1955
Before: Oklahoma

College career100-35-7

Titles1national

Program liftNo. 4of 1,290 tenures since 1937

Now

Career arc

Split-T formation — Wikipedia: Maryland Terrapins football under Jim Tatum

Stats

Big games

Pick a job to see its years on their own.

North Carolina1942 · 5-2-2Oklahoma1946 · 8-3Maryland1947–55 · 73-15-4North Carolina1956–58 · 14-15-1All jobs100-35-7

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.

0-1 against his rivals at North Carolina.

Rivalry record

0-1-1

0.0% · 2 rivals

One-score games

2-1-2

40.0% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

NC State0-10%

Duke0-0-10%

Performance by opponent class

Power Program

0-1 0.0%

National Program

1-0 100.0%

Regional Program

4-1 80.0%

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.

1-1 against his rivals at Oklahoma.

Rivalry record

1-1

50.0% · 2 rivals

One-score games

2-2

50.0% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

0-1

0.0%

Rivalry ledger

Texas0-10%

Oklahoma State1-0100%

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

0-1 0.0%

Power Program

1-1 50.0%

National Program

3-0 100.0%

Regional Program

4-1 80.0%

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.

Just 1-2 against Carl Snavely.

One-score games

9-8-4

42.9% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

1-2

33.3%

The toughest matchup

vs. Carl Snavely1-2-1

4 meetings, 1947–1951

’47 L’48 L’50 T’51 W

25% 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

1-2 33.3%

Power Program

13-8 61.9%

National Program

22-3 88.0%

Regional Program

26-2 92.9%

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.

1-5 against his rivals at North Carolina. Winless in 3 tries against Earle Edwards.

Rivalry record

1-5

16.7% · 2 rivals

One-score games

6-6-1

46.2% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

1-5

16.7%

Rivalry ledger

NC State0-30%

Duke1-233%

The toughest matchup

vs. Earle Edwards0-3

3 meetings, 1956–1958

’56 L’57 L’58 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

Dynasty

0-1 0.0%

Blue Blood

1-4 20.0%

Power Program

6-3 66.7%

National Program

2-2 50.0%

Regional Program

5-5 50.0%

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.

2-7 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Bud Wilkinson.

Rivalry record

2-7-1

20.0% · 4 rivals

One-score games

19-17-7

44.2% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

2-8

20.0%

Rivalry ledger

NC State0-40%

Duke1-2-125%

Texas0-10%

Oklahoma State1-0100%

The toughest matchup

vs. Bud Wilkinson0-3

3 meetings, 1953–1956

’53 L’55 L’56 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

Dynasty

0-1 0.0%

Blue Blood

2-7 22.2%

Power Program

20-13 60.6%

National Program

28-5 84.8%

Regional Program

39-9 81.2%

Building the roster

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

1Who followed him
2Roster ownership
3The NFL pipeline

Followed him here

Oklahoma→

Maryland1947

No confirmed followers on this move. This move predates this database’s 2021 transfer-portal tracking floor, so real followers may be undercounted here.

Players who transferred from his old program to his new one through the portal in the same year he made the move. Name-matching across data sources misses some, so every count is a floor, not an exact number.

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1947-1955) 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 least21Drafted

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. 6 went in the first round.

At least 21 — his 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955 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 · 21 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Note
1956	R1.04	Estimated
1956	R1.12	Estimated
1955	R1.09	Estimated
1955	R2.14	Estimated
1955	R6.60	Estimated
1954	R1.11	Estimated
1954	R2.23	Estimated
1954	R4.36	Estimated

Year	Pick	Note
1954	R4.38	Estimated
1954	R4.44	Estimated
1953	R1.03	Estimated
1953	R2.14	Estimated
1953	R4.40	Estimated
1953	R4.44	Estimated
1953	R5.52	Estimated
1953	R7.74	Estimated
1952	R1.05	Estimated
1952	R6.53	Estimated
1952	R6.57	Estimated
1951	R2.22	Estimated
1951	R4.41	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.

Jim Tatum

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

The big-game ledger

The big-game ledger

The big-game ledger

The big-game ledger

The big-game ledger

Building the roster

Followed him here

Roster ownership

The NFL pipeline

Career

Coaching career

All-time wins

Was he good?