Tom Lovat: coaching record and career

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.

0-3 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Don Read.

Rivalry record

0-3

0.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

3-5

37.5% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

BYU0-30%

The toughest matchup

vs. Don Read0-3

3 meetings, 1974–1976

’74 L’75 L’76 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

1-6 14.3%

National Program

0-10 0.0%

Regional Program

4-12 25.0%

Building the roster

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

1Roster ownership

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1974-1976) 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.

Career

Coaching career

See Utah’s full coaching history →

The arc of his career is on Now.

Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder

1974–1976

Utah Steady≈

National Program III → Regional Program I (left at Regional Program III)

Closest comparable run: Bill Callahan’s Nebraska run (2004–2007)

Tom Lovat slid Utah from National Program III to Regional Program I in 3 seasons.

−14.3 pts over 3 seasons · bottom 3% of 3-5-season tenures (717 in sample)

12th-best Utah tenure of 13 by the numbers.

Followed Bill Meek (1968–1973) · succeeded by Wayne Howard (1977–1981).

5-28

Was he good?

Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.

Raised the program

-14.3 pts at Utah · #1274 of 1290 · bottom quarter