The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Edwin Price

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

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1951–1956 · 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, 6 seasons

−3.1

Power Program I → Power Program II.

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.

5–8 against his rivals. Just 1–5 against Bud Wilkinson.

Rivalry record

5–8

38.5% · 3 rivals

One-score games

11–12–1

45.8% · margin ≤8

vs. Blue Blood or better

0–2

0.0%

Rivalry ledger

Oklahoma1–517%

Texas A&M4–267%

Texas Tech0–10%

The toughest matchup

vs. Bud Wilkinson1–5

6 meetings, 1951–1956

’51 W’52 L’53 L’54 L’55 L’56 L

17% win rate across a real, 6-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

Dynasty

0–2 0.0%

Blue Blood

2–5 28.6%

Power Program

14–14 50.0%

National Program

15–6 71.4%

Regional Program

1–0 100.0%

Coaching career

1951–1956

Texasinheritor

Power Program I → Power Program I

Edwin Price inherited a Power Program I Texas and won with it.

6th-best Texas tenure of 12 by the numbers.

Followed Blair Cherry (1947–1950) · succeeded by Darrell Royal (1957–1976).

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