The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Claude Simons

Followed Red Dawson. Claude Simons held Tulane at Power Program II for 4 seasons.

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1942–1945 · 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).

Tulane, 4 seasons

−6.0

Power Program II → Power 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.

1–3 against his rivals. Just 1–3 against Bernie Moore.

Rivalry record

1–3

25.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

4–3–1

50.0% · margin ≤8

vs. Blue Blood or better

0–2

0.0%

Rivalry ledger

LSU1–325%

The toughest matchup

vs. Bernie Moore1–3

4 meetings, 1942–1945

’42 L’43 W’44 L’45 L

25% 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

0–2 0.0%

Power Program

2–6 25.0%

National Program

11–6 64.7%

Coaching career

1942–1945

Tulanecaretaker

Power Program II → Power Program II

Claude Simons held Tulane at Power Program II for 4 seasons.

2nd-best Tulane tenure of 23 by the numbers.

Followed Red Dawson (1936–1941) · succeeded by Henry Frnka (1946–1951).

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