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Blair Cherry

Followed Dana Bible. Blair Cherry inherited a Power Program I Texas and won with it.

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1947–1950 · 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 Power Program in his 1st career season — faster than 57% of the 395 FBS coaches who have ever reached Power Program (rank #1 of 395 by seasons-to-arrival).

Texas, 4 seasons

+5.8

Power Program I → Power Program I.

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.

7–3 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Madison Bell.

Rivalry record

7–3–1

63.6% · 3 rivals

One-score games

7–8–1

43.8% · margin ≤8

vs. Blue Blood or better

0–1

0.0%

Rivalry ledger

Oklahoma1–325%

Texas A&M3–0–175%

Texas Tech3–0100%

The toughest matchup

vs. Madison Bell0–3

3 meetings, 1947–1949

’47 L’48 L’49 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

Blue Blood

0–1 0.0%

Power Program

9–8 52.9%

National Program

19–1 95.0%

Regional Program

4–0 100.0%

Coaching career

1947–1950

Texasinheritor

Power Program I → Power Program I

Blair Cherry inherited a Power Program I Texas and won with it.

5th-best Texas tenure of 12 by the numbers.

Followed Dana Bible (1937–1946) · succeeded by Edwin Price (1951–1956).

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