The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Tom Rogers

Followed D.C. Walker. Tom Rogers held Wake Forest at National Program I for 5 seasons.

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1951–1955 · 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 National Program in his 1st career season — faster than 41% of the 675 FBS coaches who have ever reached National Program (rank #1 of 675 by seasons-to-arrival).

Wake Forest, 5 seasons

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National Program I → National 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.

Winless in 4 tries against Frank Howard.

One-score games

4–8–4

25.0% · margin ≤8

vs. Blue Blood or better

0–1

0.0%

The toughest matchup

vs. Frank Howard0–4

4 meetings, 1951–1955

’51 L’53 L’54 L’55 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

2–6 25.0%

National Program

4–10 28.6%

Regional Program

9–4 69.2%

Coaching career

1951–1955

Wake Forestcaretaker

National Program I → National Program I

Tom Rogers held Wake Forest at National Program I for 5 seasons.

2nd-best Wake Forest tenure of 16 by the numbers.

Followed D.C. Walker (1937–1950) · succeeded by Paul Amen (1956–1959).

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