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Head coach · Texas Tech and 1 more · belt games 1971–1980

Jim Carlen

0Days with the belt
0Reigns started
0–0Defending it
0–2Challenging for it

Coached Texas Tech (1971) and South Carolina (1980) in seasons with a belt game. 2 belt games in all: 0 with the belt in hand, 2 trying to take it.

Jim Carlen was on a sideline for 2 belt games between 1971 and 1980, at Texas Tech and South Carolina, and never won the belt as a head coach.

He also coached two games with the belt on the other sideline and came away without it. The closest was 15–9 to Tulane on September 11, 1971.

Reigns

Started under this coach

Never won the belt as a head coach.

Every belt game

2 games, newest first

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.