The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Everett Faunce

Followed John Roning. Everett Faunce held Utah State at Regional Program IV for 4 seasons.

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1955–1958 · 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 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).

Utah State, 4 seasons

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Regional Program IV → Regional Program V.

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.

2–2 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Jack Curtice.

Rivalry record

2–2

50.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

2–7–1

20.0% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

BYU2–250%

The toughest matchup

vs. Jack Curtice0–3

3 meetings, 1955–1957

’55 L’56 L’57 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

Power Program

0–1 0.0%

National Program

1–7 12.5%

Regional Program

7–8 46.7%

Coaching career

1955–1958

Utah Statecaretaker

Regional Program IV → Regional Program IV

Everett Faunce held Utah State at Regional Program IV for 4 seasons.

19th-best Utah State tenure of 22 by the numbers.

Followed John Roning (1951–1954) · succeeded by John Ralston (1959–1962).

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