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Milo Lude

Followed Tuffy Mullison. Milo Lude held Colorado State at Regional Program IV for 8 seasons.

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1962–1969 · 1 stint
Colorado State
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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 careerCOLORADO STATERegional Programthe building-block levelColorado State, 1962: 0-10, Regional Program V1962Colorado State, 1963: 3-7, Regional Program V1963Colorado State, 1964: 5-6, Regional Program V1964Colorado State, 1965: 4-6, Regional Program V1965Colorado State, 1966: 7-3, Regional Program IV1966Colorado State, 1967: 4-5, Regional Program IV1967Colorado State, 1968: 2-8, Regional Program IV1968Colorado State, 1969: 4-6, Regional Program IV1969+3.0One 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).

Colorado State, 8 seasons
+3.0
Regional Program V → 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.

1–7 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Frank Kush.

Rivalry record
1–7
12.5% · 1 rival
One-score games
8–12–1
38.1% · margin ≤8
Rivalry ledger
Wyoming1–712%
The toughest matchup
vs. Frank Kush0–4
4 meetings, 1962–1969
’62 L’63 L’64 L’69 L
0% 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
Power Program
2–8 20.0%
National Program
2–19 9.5%
Regional Program
12–21 36.4%

Coaching career

1962–1969
Colorado Statecaretaker
Regional Program IV → Regional Program IV
Milo Lude held Colorado State at Regional Program IV for 8 seasons.

13th-best Colorado State tenure of 18 by the numbers.

Followed Tuffy Mullison (1956–1961) · succeeded by Jerry Wampfler (1970–1972).

4 NFL Draft picks: Jon Henderson (1968), Oscar Reed (1968), Bill Kishman (1969), Terry Swarn (1969)

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