| Bobby Collins | ||
|---|---|---|
| Sport | Football | |
| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 91–44–3 | |
| Bowls | 3–2 | |
| Coaching stats | ||
| College Football DataWarehouse | ||
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1975-1981 1982-1986 |
Southern Miss SMU |
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Bobby Collins is a former American football coach. American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive Team sport known for mixing strategy with For the coaching strategy game see NFL Head Coach. A head coach is a professional who is responsible for the overall actions of The University of Southern Mississippi ( USM, but frequently referred to as Southern Miss) is a four-year public University located primarily Southern Methodist University ("SMU" is a private, Coeducational University in University Park, Texas (an enclave American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive Team sport known for mixing strategy with He served as head coach at the University of Southern Mississippi and Southern Methodist University. The University of Southern Mississippi ( USM, but frequently referred to as Southern Miss) is a four-year public University located primarily Southern Methodist University ("SMU" is a private, Coeducational University in University Park, Texas (an enclave While at SMU, Collins saw the school's football program brought down by severe NCAA sanctions that led to the “death penalty” being applied to the program, including the entire abolition of the team in 1987, and restrictions to just seven games in 1988, of which the school decided not to field a team that year. The death penalty refers to the National Collegiate Athletic Association 's (NCAA power to force United States academic institutions not to compete in certain sports
From 1975 to 1981, Collins coached at Southern Miss, and compiled a 48–30–2 record. In 1982 he was hired by SMU, signing a five-year deal with more than $100,000 annual salary. While at SMU, Collins compiled a 43–14–1 record. His only losing season as a coach came in 1976, when he went 3–8. From 1982 to 1984, he put together the best stretch in school history, going 31–4–1.
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl | Coaches# | AP° | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Miss Golden Eagles (Independent) (1975 – 1981) | |||||||||
| 1975 | Southern Miss | 8–3 | — | — | |||||
| 1976 | Southern Miss | 3–8 | — | — | |||||
| 1977 | Southern Miss | 6–6 | — | — | |||||
| 1978 | Southern Miss | 7–4 | — | — | |||||
| 1979 | Southern Miss | 6–4–1 | — | — | |||||
| 1980 | Southern Miss | 9–3 | W Independence | — | — | ||||
| 1981 | Southern Miss | 9–2–1 | L Tangerine | 19 | — | ||||
| Southern Miss: | 48–30–2 | ||||||||
| SMU Mustangs (SWC) (1982 – 1986) | |||||||||
| 1982 | SMU | 11–0–1 | W Cotton | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 1983 | SMU | 10–2 | L Sun | 11 | 12 | ||||
| 1984 | SMU | 10–2 | W Aloha | 8 | 8 | ||||
| 1985 | SMU | 6–5 | — | — | |||||
| 1986 | SMU | 6–5 | — | — | |||||
| SMU: | 43–14–1 | ||||||||
| Total: | 91–44–3 | ||||||||
| National Championship Conference Title Conference Division Title | |||||||||
| #Rankings from final Coaches Poll of the season. Students from The University of Southern Mississippi compete on the athletic field as Golden Eagles in Conference USA. The 1975 college football season saw University of Oklahoma repeat as national champion in the Associated Press (AP writers' poll The 1976 college football season ended with a championship for the Panthers of the University of Pittsburgh. The 1977 college football season was one in which the top five teams all finished with records of 11-1-0 The 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first season of Division I-A football Division I-A was created in 1978 from the splitting of Division I for football only The 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season saw the Alabama Crimson Tide bring home a national title with a perfect 12-0 season The 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season saw Georgia take its first national title since World War II. The Independence Bowl is a post-season NCAA -sanctioned Division I College football Bowl game that is played annually at Independence Stadium The 1981 Division 1A Football season ended with Clemson unbeaten and untied taking the national championship after a victory over traditional power Nebraska The SMU Mustangs is the name of the athletic teams representing Southern Methodist University. This page is about the now defunct Southwest Conference (SWC For the unrelated and currently still active conference abbreviated as the SWAC see Southwestern Athletic Conference The 1982 Division 1A football season saw Paul “Bear” Bryant retire as head coach at Alabama with 323 career victories in 38 seasons The Cotton Bowl Classic is a United States College football Bowl game played annually since 1937 at the self-named stadium in Dallas Texas The 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the University of Miami winning their first national championship over perennial The Sun Bowl is an annual College football Bowl game that is played usually at the end of December in El Paso Texas. The 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season saw an aerial attack (in a college version of the West Coast offense) as the only undefeated team Brigham Young University The Aloha Bowl was a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I -A College football bowl game played in ʻAiea Hawaii at Aloha The 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season saw the Oklahoma Sooners, led by head coach Barry Switzer, continue their long The 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with Penn State winning the National Championship. The USA Today Coaches' Poll is the current name for a weekly ranking of the top 25 NCAA Division I-A College football and Division I °Rankings from final AP Poll of the season. |
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