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Edwin Kimball

Followed Ott Romney. Edwin Kimball held BYU at Regional Program I for 8 seasons.

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1937–1948 · 1 stint
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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.

Stature score reached, by season of his head-coaching careerBYUNational Programrespectable, streakyRegional Programthe building-block levelBYU, 1937: 6-3, Regional Program I1937BYU, 1938: 4-3, Regional Program I1938BYU, 1939: 5-2, Regional Program I1939BYU, 1940: 2-4, Regional Program I1940BYU, 1941: 4-3, Regional Program I1941BYU, 1946: 5-4, Regional Program III1946BYU, 1947: 3-7, Regional Program III1947BYU, 1948: 5-6, Regional Program IV1948+0.8One point per coached season, in career order; dashed segments are program changes — spacing is not proportional to calendar time

Reached Regional Program in his 1st career season — faster than 20% of the 925 FBS coaches who have ever reached Regional Program (rank #1 of 925 by seasons-to-arrival).

BYU, 8 seasons
+0.8
Regional Program I → Regional Program IV.

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.

3–8 against his rivals. Winless in 8 tries against Ike Armstrong.

Rivalry record
3–8–4
20.0% · 2 rivals
One-score games
9–8–7
37.5% · margin ≤8
Rivalry ledger
Utah0–6–20%
Utah State3–2–243%
The toughest matchup
vs. Ike Armstrong0–6–2
8 meetings, 1937–1948
’37 L’38 T’39 L’40 L’41 T’46 L’47 L’48 L
0% win rate across a real, 8-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
0–7 0.0%
National Program
1–6 14.3%
Regional Program
15–6 71.4%

Coaching career

1937–1948
BYUcaretaker
Regional Program I → Regional Program I
Edwin Kimball held BYU at Regional Program I for 8 seasons.

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

Followed Ott Romney (1936–1936) · succeeded by Charles Atkinson (1949–1955).

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