The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Carl Voyles

Carl Voyles held Auburn at National Program I for 4 seasons.

The ascent

21–24

1940–1947 · 2 stints

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 2nd career season — faster than 33% of the 675 FBS coaches who have ever reached National Program (rank #402 of 675 by seasons-to-arrival).

Auburn, 4 seasons

+0.0

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.

0–4 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Allyn McKeen.

Rivalry record

0–4

0.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

4–3

57.1% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Georgia0–40%

The toughest matchup

vs. Allyn McKeen0–4

4 meetings, 1944–1947

’44 L’45 L’46 L’47 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

Power Program

1–9 10.0%

National Program

0–11 0.0%

Regional Program

6–2 75.0%

Coaching career

1944–1947

Auburncaretaker

National Program I

Carl Voyles held Auburn at National Program I for 4 seasons.

15th-best Auburn tenure of 16 by the numbers.

Succeeded by Earl Brown (1948–1950).

15–22

1940–1940

William & Marycaretaker

Regional Program V → Regional Program IV

Carl Voyles moved William & Mary from Regional Program V to Regional Program IV in 1 season.

4th-best William & Mary tenure of 4 by the numbers.

6–2