Murray Warmath

Head coach, Minnesota, 1954 to 1971
Before: Mississippi State

College career97-84-10

Titles1national

Program liftNo. 148tied · of 1,290 tenures since 1937

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

Pick a job to see its years on their own.

Mississippi State1952–53 · 10-6-3Minnesota1954–71 · 87-78-7All jobs97-84-10

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.

0-1 against his rivals at Mississippi State.

Rivalry record

0-1-1

0.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

0-3-3

0.0% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

1-1

50.0%

Rivalry ledger

Ole Miss0-1-10%

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

1-1 50.0%

Power Program

3-2 60.0%

National Program

2-3 40.0%

Regional Program

1-0 100.0%

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.

18-16 against his rivals at Minnesota. Winless in 7 tries against Bob Devaney.

Rivalry record

18-16-2

50.0% · 2 rivals

One-score games

34-32-7

46.6% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

4-9

30.8%

Rivalry ledger

Iowa10-7-156%

Wisconsin8-9-144%

The toughest matchupNemesis

vs. Bob Devaney0-7

7 meetings, 1963–1971

’63 L’64 L’67 L’68 L’69 L’70 L’71 L

Performance by opponent class

Dynasty

0-1 0.0%

Blue Blood

4-8 33.3%

Power Program

32-41 43.8%

National Program

30-20 60.0%

Regional Program

21-8 72.4%

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.

18-17 against his rivals. Winless in 7 tries against Bob Devaney.

Rivalry record

18-17-3

47.4% · 3 rivals

One-score games

34-35-10

43.0% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

5-10

33.3%

Rivalry ledger

Iowa10-7-156%

Wisconsin8-9-144%

Ole Miss0-1-10%

The toughest matchupNemesis

vs. Bob Devaney0-7

7 meetings, 1963–1971

’63 L’64 L’67 L’68 L’69 L’70 L’71 L

Performance by opponent class

Dynasty

0-1 0.0%

Blue Blood

5-9 35.7%

Power Program

35-43 44.9%

National Program

32-23 58.2%

Regional Program

22-8 73.3%

Building the roster

Three numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Who followed him
2Roster ownership
3The NFL pipeline

Followed him here

Mississippi State→

Minnesota1954

No confirmed followers on this move. This move predates this database’s 2021 transfer-portal tracking floor, so real followers may be undercounted here.

Players who transferred from his old program to his new one through the portal in the same year he made the move. Name-matching across data sources misses some, so every count is a floor, not an exact number.

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1954-1971) predates 2021, when transfer-portal tracking begins in this database. Portal usage cannot be measured for this tenure at all -- this is not the same as '0% portal'.

“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.

The NFL pipeline

at least26Drafted

players drafted into the NFL off his teams here (a floor — see the note below). None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here. 3 went in the first round.

At least 26 — his 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 seasons predate the modern 7-round draft, so this table’s pre-1994 pick counts are a floor, not a full count, for those seasons.

0 roster-verified · 26 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Player	Pos	NFL team	Note
1972	R3.07	Bart Buetow	Offensive Tackle	Minnesota Vikings	Estimated
1972	R6.10	Mike Perfetti	Defensive Back	Atlanta Falcons	Estimated
1972	R6.14	Vern Winfield	Offensive Guard	Philadelphia Eagles	Estimated
1970	R2.19	Ray Parson	Defensive Tackle	Detroit Lions	Estimated
1970	R3.16	Jim Carter	Linebacker	Green Bay Packers	Estimated
1969	R4.07	Dennis Hale	Defensive Back	New Orleans Saints	Estimated
1969	R4.26	Ezell Jones	Offensive Tackle	New York Jets	Estimated
1969	R5.22	Bob Stein	Linebacker	Kansas City Chiefs	Estimated

Year	Pick	Player	Pos	NFL team	Note
1969	R7.02	Richard Enderle	Offensive Guard	Atlanta Falcons	Estimated
1968	R1.23	John Williams	Offensive Tackle	Baltimore Colts	Estimated
1968	R3.19	Charles Sanders	Tight End	Detroit Lions	Estimated
1967	R5.08	Ken Last	Wide Receiver	Minnesota Vikings	Estimated
1966	R1.13				Estimated
1965	R5.59				Estimated
1964	R1.06				Estimated
1963	R2.16				Estimated
1963	R4.49				Estimated
1962	R2.24				Estimated
1962	R7.91				Estimated
1961	R6.76				Estimated
1960	R4.38				Estimated
1960	R6.59				Estimated
1958	R2.22				Estimated
1958	R7.71				Estimated
1957	R4.38				Estimated
1957	R6.69				Estimated

A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.

Murray Warmath

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

The big-game ledger

The big-game ledger

The big-game ledger

Building the roster

Followed him here

Roster ownership

The NFL pipeline

Career

Coaching career

All-time wins

Was he good?