Top 25
5-12
- Games
- 17
- Win rate
- 29.4%
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Volatile BuilderOffense-First
Coach Profile
Lance Leipold
2015-2025 • Buffalo, Kansas
2 schools coached, anchored by Buffalo.
Lance Leipold's coaching record is 64-68, highlighted by seasons at Buffalo from 2015 to 2025.
Lance Leipold coached 11 seasons, won 48.5%, and posted an average SRS of -2.1. Best season: 2023 Kansas. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 64-68
- Career win rate
- 48.5%
- Average SRS
- -2.1
- Peak SRS
- 11.0
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
- 11
- Career span
- 11 years
- Best finish
- #23
- Consistency
- 9.7
Primary school anchor
Buffalo
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 64.3.
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
- 64-68
- Buffalo record
- 37-33
- Full-season record
- 59-61
- Vs AP Top 10
- 2-3
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 3-2
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
132 countable games, 48.5% win rate.
6 countable seasons at Buffalo.
10 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
5 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
5 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 28, 2025. At least one season record was backfilled from completed games, so current-season totals may move as more scores are loaded.
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.
Lance Leipold
EliteStrongAverageLean
Lance Leipold: 2021 Kansas
2015Actual season year • SRS range -22.8 to 11.02025
Active comparison point
Lance Leipold • 2023
2023 Kansas
Best season9-4 • SRS 11.0 • SP Overall 9.9
Win %
69.2%
YoY SRS
+3.4
SP Off / Def
35.6 / 26.1
Finish
#23
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
2-3
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 40.0%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results17
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Kansas
2021-2025 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 3.5 • Win % 43.5%
Buffalo
2015-2020 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS -7.7 • Win % 52.9%
- Longest tenure
- Buffalo • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- Kansas • 3.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Buffalo • 52.9%
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.
Lance Leipold sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeLance Leipold sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Lance Leipold
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -4.1
- Percentile
- 44th pct
Mixed
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.
Kansas
2021-2025 • 27-35
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 3.5Win % 43.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.4 during vs 1.8 baseline
+3.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
3.5 during vs -10.8 baseline
+14.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
0.4 during vs -13.4 baseline
+13.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
20.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+20.0%
Buffalo
2015-2020 • 37-33
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -7.7Win % 52.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.2 during vs 3.9 baseline
+2.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-7.7 during vs -14.1 baseline
+6.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-8.7 during vs -15.9 baseline
+7.2
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
16.7% during vs 0.0% baseline
+16.7%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Kansas 2023
9-4 • SRS 11.0
Biggest Improvement
Kansas 2022
6-7 • 22.5 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Kansas 2022
6-7 • SP Off 40.6
Best Defensive Season
Buffalo 2019
8-5 • SP Def 24.6
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Buffalo 2016
2-10 • SRS -22.8
Biggest Drop
Buffalo 2016
2-10 • -12.0 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Kansas | 2025 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | 3.2 | 4.1 | 30.9 | 28.5 | -7.6 | 0.0% | Completed-game fallback |
| Kansas | 2024 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | #22 | — | 10.8 | 4.9 | 32.4 | 26.5 | -0.2 | -27.6% | Season summary |
| Kansas | 2023 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | #23 | 11.0 | 9.9 | 35.6 | 26.1 | +3.4 | +23.1% | Season summary |
| Kansas | 2022 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | 7.6 | 2.9 | 40.6 | 36.0 | +22.5 | +29.5% | Season summary |
| Kansas | 2021 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -14.9 | -19.7 | 22.3 | 40.6 | — | -69.0% | Season summary |
| Buffalo | 2020 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 85.7% | — | #25 | — | — | — | — | — | +24.2% | Season summary |
| Buffalo | 2019 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | -1.0 | -2.0 | 25.0 | 24.6 | -1.5 | -9.9% | Season summary |
| Buffalo | 2018 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 71.4% | — | — | 0.5 | -1.1 | 31.3 | 29.9 | +4.8 | +21.4% | Season summary |
| Buffalo | 2017 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -4.3 | -11.2 | 24.9 | 33.9 | +18.5 | +33.3% | Season summary |
| Buffalo | 2016 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -22.8 | -18.8 | 16.8 | 33.5 | -12.0 | -25.0% | Season summary |
| Buffalo | 2015 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -10.8 | -10.3 | 24.1 | 32.2 | — | — | Season summary |
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