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Moe Ankney

Followed Dennis Stolz. Moe Ankney held Bowling Green at Regional Program I for 5 seasons.

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1986–1990 · 1 stint
Bowling Green
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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 careerBOWLING GREENNational Programrespectable, streakyRegional Programthe building-block levelBowling Green, 1986: 5-6, Regional Program I1986Bowling Green, 1987: 5-6, Regional Program I1987Bowling Green, 1988: 2-8, Regional Program III1988Bowling Green, 1989: 5-6, Regional Program III1989Bowling Green, 1990: 3-5, Regional Program III1990-10.5One 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).

Bowling Green, 5 seasons
−10.5
Regional Program I → Regional Program III.

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.

2–3 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Tim Rose.

Rivalry record
2–3
40.0% · 1 rival
One-score games
8–6–3
47.1% · margin ≤8
vs. Blue Blood or better
0–1
0.0%
Rivalry ledger
Toledo2–340%
The toughest matchup
vs. Tim Rose0–3–1
4 meetings, 1986–1989
’86 L’87 L’88 T’89 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
0–1 0.0%
National Program
1–4 20.0%
Regional Program
18–24 42.9%

Coaching career

1986–1990
Bowling Greencaretaker
Regional Program I → Regional Program I
Moe Ankney held Bowling Green at Regional Program I for 5 seasons.

7th-best Bowling Green tenure of 14 by the numbers.

Followed Dennis Stolz (1977–1985) · succeeded by Gary Blackney (1991–2000).

3 NFL Draft picks: Kyle Kramer (1989), Reggie Thornton (1990), Ron Heard (1990)

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