The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Tom Lieb

Followed Josh Cody. Tom Lieb held Florida at Regional Program II for 5 seasons.

20–26

1940–1945 · 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).

Florida, 5 seasons

−1.7

Regional Program II → Regional 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.

1–4 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Allyn McKeen.

Rivalry record

1–4

20.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

4–6–1

36.4% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Georgia1–420%

The toughest matchup

vs. Allyn McKeen0–3

3 meetings, 1940–1942

’40 L’41 L’42 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

0–6 0.0%

National Program

5–11 31.2%

Regional Program

4–4 50.0%

Coaching career

1940–1945

Floridacaretaker

Regional Program II → Regional Program II

Tom Lieb held Florida at Regional Program II for 5 seasons.

21st-best Florida tenure of 22 by the numbers.

Followed Josh Cody (1936–1939) · succeeded by Raymond Wolf (1946–1949).

20–26