The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Julius Wagner

Followed Harry Hughes. Julius Wagner held Colorado State at Regional Program IV for 3 seasons.

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1942–1946 · 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).

Colorado State, 3 seasons

−1.7

Regional Program IV → 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.

2–3 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Ike Armstrong.

Rivalry record

2–3

40.0% · 2 rivals

One-score games

1–0

100.0% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Colorado0–30%

Wyoming2–0100%

The toughest matchup

vs. Ike Armstrong0–3

3 meetings, 1942–1946

’42 L’45 L’46 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

0–5 0.0%

Regional Program

3–3 50.0%

Coaching career

1942–1946

Colorado Statecaretaker

Regional Program IV → Regional Program IV

Julius Wagner held Colorado State at Regional Program IV for 3 seasons.

15th-best Colorado State tenure of 18 by the numbers.

Followed Harry Hughes (1936–1941) · succeeded by Robert Davis (1947–1955).

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