Bill Barnes

Head coach, UCLA, 1958 to 1964

College career31-34-3

Program liftNo. 1,078tied · of 1,290 tenures since 1937

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.

2-4 against his rivals. Just 1-5 against Jim Owens.

Rivalry record

2-4

33.3% · 1 rival

One-score games

14-9-2

56.0% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

1-1

50.0%

Rivalry ledger

USC2-433%

The toughest matchupNemesis

vs. Jim Owens1-5

6 meetings, 1959–1964

’59 L’60 L’61 L’62 L’63 W’64 L

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

1-1 50.0%

Power Program

8-17 32.0%

National Program

10-7 58.8%

Regional Program

10-5 66.7%

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 (1958-1964) 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 least4Drafted

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. 3 went in the first round.

At least 4 — his 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 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 · 4 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Note
1963	R1.08	Estimated
1961	R1.06	Estimated
1961	R1.11	Estimated
1961	R7.83	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.