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2-4
- Games
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- Win rate
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Mike Neu
2016-2024 • Ball State
One defining program at Ball State.
Mike Neu's coaching record is 40-63, highlighted by seasons at Ball State from 2016 to 2024.
Mike Neu coached 9 seasons, won 38.8%, and posted an average SRS of -13.3. Best season: 2019 Ball State. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 40-63
- Career win rate
- 38.8%
- Average SRS
- -13.3
- Peak SRS
- -4.9
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
- 9
- Career span
- 9 years
- Best finish
- #23
- Consistency
- 53.6
Primary school anchor
Ball State
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 23.9.
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
- 40-63
- Ball State record
- 40-63
- Full-season record
- 37-56
- Partial-season record
- 3-7
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-2
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-1
- Vs Northern Illinois
- 4-4
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
103 countable games, 38.8% win rate.
9 countable seasons at Ball State.
8 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
Ball State-Northern Illinois games in this dataset.
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 29, 2024. 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.
Mike Neu
EliteStrongAverageLean
2016Actual season year • SRS range -27.9 to -4.92024
Active comparison point
Mike Neu • 2019
2019 Ball State
Best seasonBiggest improvement5-7 • SRS -4.9 • SP Overall -4.5
Win %
41.7%
YoY SRS
+11.5
SP Off / Def
29.5 / 32.6
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
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results6
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Ball State
2016-2024 • 9 seasons
Avg SRS -13.3 • Win % 38.8%
- Longest tenure
- Ball State • 9 seasons
- Best tenure
- Ball State • -13.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Ball State • 38.8%
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.
Mike Neu sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeMike Neu sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Mike Neu
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -13.9
- Percentile
- 18th pct
Lower end
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.
Ball State
2016-2024 • 40-63
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -13.3Win % 38.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.6 during vs 6.6 baseline
-2.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-13.3 during vs -7.6 baseline
-5.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-13.0 during vs -6.2 baseline
-6.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
12.5% during vs 0.0% baseline
+12.5%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Ball State 2019
5-7 • SRS -4.9
Biggest Improvement
Ball State 2019
5-7 • 11.5 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Ball State 2019
5-7 • SP Off 29.5
Best Defensive Season
Ball State 2023
4-8 • SP Def 26.3
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Ball State 2017
2-10 • SRS -27.9
Biggest Drop
Ball State 2017
2-10 • -15.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Ball State | 2024 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -13.4 | -19.8 | 21.3 | 40.8 | -0.6 | -3.3% | Partial season |
| Ball State | 2023 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -12.8 | -14.9 | 12.6 | 26.3 | -1.2 | -8.3% | Season summary |
| Ball State | 2022 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -11.6 | -14.9 | 16.0 | 30.1 | -4.3 | -4.5% | Season summary |
| Ball State | 2021 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | -7.3 | -11.2 | 21.6 | 33.7 | — | -41.3% | Season summary |
| Ball State | 2020 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 87.5% | — | #23 | — | — | — | — | — | +45.8% | Season summary |
| Ball State | 2019 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -4.9 | -4.5 | 29.5 | 32.6 | +11.5 | +8.3% | Season summary |
| Ball State | 2018 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -16.4 | -18.9 | 22.5 | 40.2 | +11.5 | +16.7% | Season summary |
| Ball State | 2017 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -27.9 | -19.7 | 20.3 | 37.7 | -15.7 | -16.7% | Season summary |
| Ball State | 2016 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -12.2 | -7.0 | 28.2 | 35.1 | — | — | Season summary |
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Statistical comps
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