The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Wayne Nunnely

Followed Harvey Hyde. Wayne Nunnely held UNLV at Regional Program I for 4 seasons.

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1986–1989 · 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).

UNLV, 4 seasons

−7.5

Regional Program I → 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.

Winless in 4 tries against Claude Gilbert.

One-score games

3–6

33.3% · margin ≤8

The toughest matchup

vs. Claude Gilbert0–4

4 meetings, 1986–1989

’86 L’87 L’88 L’89 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

0–2 0.0%

National Program

1–12 7.7%

Regional Program

6–6 50.0%

Coaching career

1986–1989

UNLVcaretaker

Regional Program I → Regional Program I

Wayne Nunnely held UNLV at Regional Program I for 4 seasons.

3rd-best UNLV tenure of 12 by the numbers.

Followed Harvey Hyde (1982–1985) · succeeded by Jim Strong (1990–1993).

1 NFL Draft pick: Don Odegard (1990)

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