Top 25
1-15
- Games
- 16
- Win rate
- 6.3%
Longevity CoachBalanced
Coach Profile
Thomas Nugent
College football coaching record, Maryland years & career stats
1949-1965 • Florida State, Maryland, VMI
3 schools coached, anchored by Maryland.
Thomas Nugent's coaching record is 89-80-3, highlighted by seasons at Maryland from 1949 to 1965.
Thomas Nugent coached 17 seasons, won 52.6%, and posted an average SRS of -0.8. Best season: 1962 Maryland. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 89-80-3
- Career win rate
- 52.6%
- Average SRS
- -0.8
- Peak SRS
- 9.3
Career Dossier
One glance at the full arc.
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
- Seasons coached
- 17
- Career span
- 17 years
- Best finish
- #0
- Consistency
- 42.8
Quick Answers
Records fans search first
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
- Overall record
- 89-80-3
- Maryland record
- 36-34
- Full-season record
- 89-80-3
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-7
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-3
- Vs Virginia
- 5-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-2
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
172 countable games, 52.6% win rate.
7 countable seasons at Maryland.
17 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
7 games using AP ranking at game time.
3 games using AP ranking at game time.
Maryland-Virginia games in this dataset.
2 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
Career Résumé
Thomas Nugent season milestones
Winning, 10-win, and undefeated seasons are derived from countable season rows. Finish and title totals use the tracked final-ranking data.
- Winning seasons
- 8
- 10-win seasons
- 0
- Undefeated seasons
- 0
- Top-10 finishes
- 1
- National titles
- 0
47% of countable seasons
Seasons with at least 10 wins
No losses or ties
Tracked final rankings
Championship seasons
Record definition and data status
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.
Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Dec 4, 1965. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
Coach FAQ
Quick answers about Thomas Nugent
Who is Thomas Nugent?
Thomas Nugent is a college football coach in the CFBTrack coaching database with primary school context at Maryland, with a 89-80-3 career record from 1949-1965 across 17 countable seasons.
What is Thomas Nugent's college football coaching record?
Thomas Nugent's college football coaching record is 89-80-3 across 17 countable seasons, anchored by Maryland.
Which schools did Thomas Nugent coach?
Thomas Nugent coached at Florida State, Maryland, VMI in the seasons covered by this profile.
How many winning seasons did Thomas Nugent have?
Thomas Nugent had 8 winning seasons across 17 countable season rows in this profile.
How many 10-win seasons did Thomas Nugent have?
Thomas Nugent had 0 seasons with at least 10 wins in the countable season data.
How many Top-10 finishes did Thomas Nugent have?
Thomas Nugent recorded 1 Top-10 final finish in the tracked rankings.
What years did Thomas Nugent coach at Maryland?
Thomas Nugent's Maryland head coach years were 1959-1965, covering 7 countable seasons with a 36-34 record.
How did Thomas Nugent do against ranked opponents?
Thomas Nugent's AP Top 25 time-of-game record is 1-15 across 16 games.
How does CFBTrack count Thomas Nugent's coaching record?
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Thomas Nugent career arc
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.
Focus on the peaks, floors, and changes between seasons.
Thomas Nugent
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Thomas Nugent: 1953 Florida StateThomas Nugent: 1959 Maryland
1949Actual season year • SRS range -19.8 to 9.31965
Active comparison point
Thomas Nugent • 1962
1962 Maryland
Best season6-4 • SRS 9.3 • SP Overall —
Win %
60.0%
YoY SRS
+4.2
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
Unranked
Season context
Focus a point to inspect that season's record, rating, finish, and year-over-year change.
Ranked opponent record
Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.
Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.
Top 10
0-7
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-3
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results16
| 1963 Regular Week 9 | Maryland | Navy | #2 | L7-42 |
| 1960 Regular Week 3 | Maryland | Texas | #13 | L0-34 |
| 1959 Regular Week 10 | Maryland | Clemson | #19 | W28-25 |
| 1959 Regular Week 4 | Maryland | Syracuse | #12 | L0-29 |
| 1959 Regular Week 3 | Maryland | Texas | #10 | L0-26 |
| 1958 Regular Week 11 | Florida State | Florida | #14 | L7-21 |
| 1958 Postseason Week 1 | Florida State | Oklahoma State | #19 | L6-15 |
| 1957 Regular Week 11 | Florida State | Auburn | #1 | L7-29 |
| 1957 Regular Week 5 | Florida State | NC State | #12 | L0-7 |
| 1956 Regular Week 8 | Florida State | Miami | #8 | L7-20 |
| 1955 Regular Week 6 | Florida State | Georgia Tech | #13 | L0-34 |
| 1952 Regular Week 6 | VMI | Virginia | #16 | L14-33 |
| 1951 Regular Week 9 | VMI | Georgia Tech | #7 | L7-34 |
| 1950 Regular Week 5 | VMI | Texas A&M | #13 | L0-52 |
| 1949 Regular Week 8 | VMI | Army | #4 | L14-40 |
| 1949 Regular Week 7 | VMI | Virginia | #9 | L13-32 |
Tenure map
Read the career chronologically. Each stint expands by seasons coached, with its record and average SRS kept in view.
Length = seasons coachedOldest to newest
- Longest tenure
- Maryland • 7 seasons
- Best tenure
- Maryland • 2.9 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Florida State • 54.8%
Style and Strength Profile
Read strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.
These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.
Overall Strength
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Overall Strength
Not enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Thomas Nugent
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Thomas Nugent coaching record by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
Maryland
1959-1965 • 36-34
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 2.9Win % 51.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.1 during vs 5.6 baseline
-0.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
2.9 during vs 9.2 baseline
-6.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
-40.0%
Florida State
1953-1958 • 34-28-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -0.4Win % 54.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.7 during vs 6.2 baseline
-0.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-0.4 during vs — baseline
—
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
16.7% during vs 100.0% baseline
-83.3%
VMI
1949-1952 • 19-18-2
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -7.8Win % 51.3%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Maryland 1962
6-4 • SRS 9.3
Biggest Improvement
Florida State 1956
5-4-1 • 14.5 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
VMI 1952
3-6-1 • SRS -19.8
Biggest Drop
VMI 1952
3-6-1 • -20.0 SRS
Thomas Nugent coaching record by season
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
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| Maryland | 1965 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | -1.5 | — | — | — | -7.2 | -10.0% | Season summary |
| Maryland | 1964 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 5.7 | — | — | — | +7.2 | +20.0% | Season summary |
| Maryland | 1963 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -1.5 | — | — | — | -10.8 | -30.0% | Season summary |
| MarylandBest | 1962 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 9.3 | — | — | — | +4.2 | -10.0% | Season summary |
| Maryland | 1961 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 5.1 | — | — | — | +5.1 | +10.0% | Season summary |
| Maryland | 1960 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 0.0 | — | — | — | -2.9 | +10.0% | Season summary |
| Maryland | 1959 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 2.9 | — | — | — | -3.7 | -13.6% | Season summary |
| Florida State | 1958 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 6.6 | — | — | — | +12.3 | +23.6% | Season summary |
| Florida State | 1957 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | -5.7 | — | — | — | -13.0 | -15.0% | Season summary |
| Florida State | 1956 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | 7.3 | — | — | — | +14.5 | +5.0% | Season summary |
| Florida State | 1955 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -7.2 | — | — | — | -4.2 | -16.7% | Season summary |
| Florida State | 1954 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | -3.0 | — | — | — | — | +16.7% | Season summary |
| Florida State | 1953 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | #0 | #0 | — | — | — | — | — | +15.0% | Season summary |
| VMILowest | 1952 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 35.0% | — | — | -19.8 | — | — | — | -20.0 | -35.0% | Season summary |
| VMI | 1951 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 0.2 | — | — | — | +3.4 | +10.0% | Season summary |
| VMI | 1950 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | -3.2 | — | — | — | +5.4 | +21.1% | Season summary |
| VMI | 1949 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 38.9% | — | — | -8.6 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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