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Frank Kimbrough
1939-1957 • Baylor, Hardin-Simmons, North Carolina Pre-Flight, West Texas A&M
4 schools coached, anchored by West Texas A&M.
Frank Kimbrough's coaching record is 87-80-7, highlighted by seasons at West Texas A&M from 1939 to 1957.
Frank Kimbrough coached 18 seasons, won 52.0%, and posted an average SRS of -5.9. Best season: 1950 West Texas A&M. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 5 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 87-80-7
- Career win rate
- 52.0%
- Average SRS
- -5.9
- Peak SRS
- 13.6
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
- 18
- Career span
- 19 years
- Best finish
- #17
- Consistency
- 7.5
Primary school anchor
West Texas A&M
Balanced profile with 4 program stops and a peak score of 70.2.
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
- 87-80-7
- West Texas A&M record
- 54-52-2
- Full-season record
- 87-80-7
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-3
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 2-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
174 countable games, 52.0% win rate.
11 countable seasons at West Texas A&M.
18 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
3 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
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.
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: Nov 16, 1957. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
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 where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.
Frank Kimbrough
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Frank Kimbrough: 1941 BaylorFrank Kimbrough: 1943 North Carolina Pre-FlightFrank Kimbrough: 1945 BaylorFrank Kimbrough: 1947 West Texas A&M
1939Actual season year • SRS range -26.2 to 13.61957
Active comparison point
Frank Kimbrough • 1950
1950 West Texas A&M
Best seasonBiggest improvement10-1 • SRS 13.6 • SP Overall —
Win %
90.9%
YoY SRS
+22.5
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
Unranked
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
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
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- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results4
| 1954 Regular Week 2 | West Texas A&M | Texas Tech | #14 | L7-33 |
| 1943 Regular Week 4 | North Carolina Pre-Flight | Duke | #8 | L0-42 |
| 1943 Regular Week 3 | North Carolina Pre-Flight | Navy | #3 | L0-31 |
| 1941 Regular Week 6 | Baylor | Texas A&M | #2 | L0-48 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
West Texas A&M
1947-1957 • 11 seasons
Avg SRS -9.1 • Win % 50.9%
Baylor
1945-1946 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -3.3 • Win % 32.5%
North Carolina Pre-Flight
1943-1943 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -13.1 • Win % 35.7%
Baylor
1941-1942 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 5.3 • Win % 47.6%
Hardin-Simmons
1939-1940 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 1.1 • Win % 91.7%
- Longest tenure
- West Texas A&M • 11 seasons
- Best tenure
- Baylor • 5.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Hardin-Simmons • 91.7%
Style and Strength Profile
Compare 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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Frank Kimbrough
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Impact by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
West Texas A&M
1947-1957 • 54-52-2
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -9.1Win % 50.9%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Baylor
1945-1946 • 6-13-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (3 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -3.3Win % 32.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.0 during vs 4.3 baseline
-1.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-3.3 during vs 5.9 baseline
-9.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
North Carolina Pre-Flight
1943-1943 • 2-4-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -13.1Win % 35.7%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Baylor
1941-1942 • 9-10-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 5.3Win % 47.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.5 during vs 6.2 baseline
-1.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
5.3 during vs 8.0 baseline
-2.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Hardin-Simmons
1939-1940 • 16-1-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 1.1Win % 91.7%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
West Texas A&M 1950
10-1 • SRS 13.6
Biggest Improvement
West Texas A&M 1950
10-1 • 22.5 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
West Texas A&M 1951
2-7 • SRS -26.2
Biggest Drop
West Texas A&M 1951
2-7 • -39.8 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| West Texas A&M | 1957 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 0.6 | — | — | — | -5.4 | -10.0% | Season summary |
| West Texas A&M | 1956 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | — | 6.0 | — | — | — | +9.1 | +30.0% | Season summary |
| West Texas A&M | 1955 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | -3.1 | — | — | — | +10.5 | +38.9% | Season summary |
| West Texas A&M | 1954 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 11.1% | — | — | -13.6 | — | — | — | +8.7 | -3.9% | Season summary |
| West Texas A&M | 1953 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 15.0% | — | — | -22.3 | — | — | — | +3.2 | -18.3% | Season summary |
| West Texas A&M | 1952 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -25.5 | — | — | — | +0.7 | +11.1% | Season summary |
| West Texas A&M | 1951 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 22.2% | — | — | -26.2 | — | — | — | -39.8 | -68.7% | Season summary |
| West Texas A&M | 1950 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.9% | — | — | 13.6 | — | — | — | +22.5 | +35.4% | Season summary |
| West Texas A&M | 1949 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | -8.9 | — | — | — | +5.6 | +1.0% | Season summary |
| West Texas A&M | 1948 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -14.5 | — | — | — | -8.9 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| West Texas A&M | 1947 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | -5.6 | — | — | — | +0.1 | +52.5% | Season summary |
| Baylor | 1946 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 11.1% | — | — | -5.7 | — | — | — | -4.9 | -38.9% | Season summary |
| Baylor | 1945 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | -0.8 | — | — | — | +12.3 | +14.3% | Season summary |
| North Carolina Pre-Flight | 1943 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 35.7% | — | — | -13.1 | — | — | — | -17.8 | -23.4% | Season summary |
| Baylor | 1942 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 59.1% | — | — | 4.7 | — | — | — | -1.1 | +24.1% | Season summary |
| Baylor | 1941 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 35.0% | — | — | 5.8 | — | — | — | +1.1 | -65.0% | Season summary |
| Hardin-Simmons | 1940 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #17 | 4.7 | — | — | — | +7.1 | +16.7% | Season summary |
| Hardin-Simmons | 1939 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 83.3% | — | — | -2.4 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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