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Belt / Coaches / Jerry Claiborne

Head coach · Maryland and 1 more · belt games 1974–1987

Jerry Claiborne

0Days with the belt
0Reigns started
0–0Defending it
0–3Challenging for it

Coached Maryland (1974–1975) and Kentucky (1987) in seasons with a belt game. 3 belt games in all: 0 with the belt in hand, 3 trying to take it.

Jerry Claiborne was on a sideline for 3 belt games between 1974 and 1987, at Maryland and Kentucky, and never won the belt as a head coach.

He also coached three games with the belt on the other sideline and came away without it. The closest was 7–3 to Tennessee on December 16, 1974.

Reigns

Started under this coach

Never won the belt as a head coach.

Every belt game

3 games, newest first

October 17, 1987 · Kentucky at LSU 9–34 as challengerlostSeptember 13, 1975 · Maryland at Tennessee 8–26 as challengerlostDecember 16, 1974 · Maryland vs. Tennessee 3–7 as challengerlost

Head coaches from the College Football Data API’s coaching records, matched by team and season. A reign counts for the coach in charge the season it began; a mid-season change isn’t split.