Top 25
5-16
- Games
- 21
- Win rate
- 23.8%
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Coach Profile
Dennis Stolz
1973-1988 • Bowling Green, Michigan State, San Diego State
3 schools coached, anchored by Bowling Green.
Dennis Stolz's coaching record is 91-77-2, highlighted by seasons at Bowling Green from 1973 to 1988.
Dennis Stolz coached 15 seasons, won 54.1%, and posted an average SRS of -2.6. Best season: 1974 Michigan State. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 91-77-2
- Career win rate
- 54.1%
- Average SRS
- -2.6
- Peak SRS
- 14.1
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
- 15
- Career span
- 16 years
- Best finish
- #12
- Consistency
- 30.2
Primary school anchor
Bowling Green
Defense-First profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 71.4.
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
- 91-77-2
- Bowling Green record
- 56-45-1
- Full-season record
- 91-77-2
- Vs AP Top 10
- 2-9
- Vs AP Top 5
- 1-6
- Vs Kent State
- 9-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-3
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
170 countable games, 54.1% win rate.
9 countable seasons at Bowling Green.
15 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
11 games using AP ranking at game time.
7 games using AP ranking at game time.
Bowling Green-Kent State games in this dataset.
3 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 19, 1988. 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.
Dennis Stolz
EliteStrongAverageLean
Dennis Stolz: 1977 Bowling GreenDennis Stolz: 1986 San Diego State
1973Actual season year • SRS range -12.5 to 14.11988
Active comparison point
Dennis Stolz • 1974
1974 Michigan State
Best seasonBiggest improvement7-3-1 • SRS 14.1 • SP Overall 14.1
Win %
68.2%
YoY SRS
+5.3
SP Off / Def
32.2 / 18.9
Finish
#12
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
2-9
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 18.2%
Top 5
1-6
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 14.3%
View ranked game results21
| 1988 Regular Week 11 | San Diego State | BYU | #20 | W27-15 |
| 1988 Regular Week 7 | San Diego State | Wyoming | #16 | L27-55 |
| 1988 Regular Week 6 | San Diego State | Oregon | #20 | L13-34 |
| 1988 Regular Week 2 | San Diego State | UCLA | #5 | L6-59 |
| 1987 Regular Week 2 | San Diego State | UCLA | #3 | L14-47 |
| 1986 Regular Week 6 | San Diego State | Stanford | #18 | L10-17 |
| 1986 Regular Week 4 | San Diego State | UCLA | #16 | L14-45 |
| 1986 Postseason Week 1 | San Diego State | Iowa | #16 | L38-39 |
| 1984 Regular Week 4 | Bowling Green | Oklahoma State | #12 | L14-31 |
| 1975 Regular Week 6 | Michigan State | Michigan | #8 | L6-16 |
| 1975 Regular Week 5 | Michigan State | Notre Dame | #8 | W10-3 |
| 1975 Regular Week 3 | Michigan State | Miami (OH) | #19 | W14-13 |
| 1975 Regular Week 2 | Michigan State | Ohio State | #3 | L0-21 |
| 1974 Regular Week 10 | Michigan State | Ohio State | #1 | W16-13 |
| 1974 Regular Week 9 | Michigan State | Wisconsin | #20 | W28-21 |
| 1974 Regular Week 6 | Michigan State | Michigan | #4 | L7-21 |
| 1974 Regular Week 5 | Michigan State | Notre Dame | #7 | L14-19 |
| 1973 Regular Week 11 | Michigan State | Ohio State | #1 | L0-35 |
| 1973 Regular Week 7 | Michigan State | Michigan | #4 | L0-31 |
| 1973 Regular Week 6 | Michigan State | Notre Dame | #9 | L10-14 |
| 1973 Regular Week 5 | Michigan State | UCLA | #16 | L21-34 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
San Diego State
1986-1988 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -5.9 • Win % 45.7%
Bowling Green
1977-1985 • 9 seasons
Avg SRS -6.1 • Win % 55.4%
Michigan State
1973-1975 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 11.3 • Win % 59.1%
- Longest tenure
- Bowling Green • 9 seasons
- Best tenure
- Michigan State • 11.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Michigan State • 59.1%
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.
Dennis Stolz sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeDennis Stolz sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Dennis Stolz
Above average
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 3.2
- Percentile
- 68th pct
Above average
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.
San Diego State
1986-1988 • 16-19
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -5.9Win % 45.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.3 during vs 4.8 baseline
+0.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-5.9 during vs -0.5 baseline
-5.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-3.1 during vs 3.0 baseline
-6.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Bowling Green
1977-1985 • 56-45-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -6.1Win % 55.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.2 during vs 6.6 baseline
-0.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-6.1 during vs -0.8 baseline
-5.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
2.7 during vs 9.3 baseline
-6.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Michigan State
1973-1975 • 19-13-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 11.3Win % 59.1%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.3 during vs 4.8 baseline
+1.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
11.3 during vs 11.0 baseline
+0.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
10.9 during vs 8.1 baseline
+2.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
33.3% during vs 0.0% baseline
+33.3%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Michigan State 1974
7-3-1 • SRS 14.1
Biggest Improvement
Michigan State 1974
7-3-1 • 5.3 SRS
Best Offensive Season
San Diego State 1987
5-7 • SP Off 38.2
Best Defensive Season
Michigan State 1973
5-6 • SP Def 11.6
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Bowling Green 1978
4-7 • SRS -12.5
Biggest Drop
Bowling Green 1977
5-7 • -19.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| San Diego State | 1988 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -10.9 | -11.6 | 28.1 | 36.9 | -2.3 | -14.4% | Season summary |
| San Diego State | 1987 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -8.6 | -4.7 | 38.2 | 40.7 | -10.5 | -25.0% | Season summary |
| San Diego State | 1986 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 1.9 | 7.1 | 32.0 | 26.6 | +0.4 | -25.0% | Season summary |
| Bowling Green | 1985 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | — | — | 1.5 | 13.7 | 35.4 | 23.2 | +2.3 | +18.9% | Season summary |
| Bowling Green | 1984 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | — | -0.8 | 11.2 | 31.9 | 22.0 | +4.3 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Bowling Green | 1983 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | — | -5.1 | 5.7 | 30.9 | 26.9 | +1.3 | +14.4% | Season summary |
| Bowling Green | 1982 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | -6.4 | 7.8 | 26.8 | 19.6 | -0.3 | +8.3% | Season summary |
| Bowling Green | 1981 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | -6.1 | -0.9 | 14.3 | 15.1 | +2.7 | +13.6% | Season summary |
| Bowling Green | 1980 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -8.8 | -2.1 | 19.0 | 21.1 | -0.8 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Bowling Green | 1979 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -8.0 | -5.1 | 23.2 | 28.0 | +4.5 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Bowling Green | 1978 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -12.5 | -3.5 | 28.7 | 32.1 | -3.8 | -5.3% | Season summary |
| Bowling Green | 1977 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -8.7 | -2.7 | 29.3 | 32.3 | -19.7 | -22.0% | Season summary |
| Michigan State | 1975 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | #12 | — | 11.0 | 12.8 | 27.4 | 14.6 | -3.1 | -4.5% | Season summary |
| Michigan State | 1974 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 68.2% | — | #12 | 14.1 | 14.1 | 32.2 | 18.9 | +5.3 | +22.7% | Season summary |
| Michigan State | 1973 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 8.8 | 5.7 | 16.5 | 11.6 | — | — | Season summary |
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