Top 25
0-8
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 0.0%
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Mike Kruczek
1998-2003 • UCF
One defining program at UCF.
Mike Kruczek's coaching record is 36-30, highlighted by seasons at UCF from 1998 to 2003.
Mike Kruczek coached 6 seasons, won 54.5%, and posted an average SRS of -2.9. Best season: 1998 UCF. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 36-30
- Career win rate
- 54.5%
- Average SRS
- -2.9
- Peak SRS
- 6.4
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
- 6
- Career span
- 6 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 34.3
Primary school anchor
UCF
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 52.0.
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
- 36-30
- UCF record
- 36-30
- Full-season record
- 33-23
- Partial-season record
- 3-7
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-3
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
66 countable games, 54.5% win rate.
6 countable seasons at UCF.
5 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.
3 games using AP ranking at game time.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 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, 2003. 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 Kruczek
EliteStrongAverageLean
1998Actual season year • SRS range -17.2 to 6.42003
Active comparison point
Mike Kruczek • 1998
1998 UCF
Best season9-2 • SRS 6.4 • SP Overall 10.2
Win %
81.8%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
36.6 / 28.4
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
0-3
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results8
| 2002 Regular Week 2 | UCF | Penn State | #24 | L24-27 |
| 2001 Regular Week 6 | UCF | Virginia Tech | #8 | L14-46 |
| 2001 Regular Week 2 | UCF | Clemson | #19 | L13-21 |
| 2000 Regular Week 12 | UCF | Virginia Tech | #8 | L21-44 |
| 1999 Regular Week 5 | UCF | Georgia | #11 | L23-24 |
| 1999 Regular Week 4 | UCF | Georgia Tech | #12 | L10-41 |
| 1999 Regular Week 3 | UCF | Florida | #4 | L27-58 |
| 1999 Regular Week 2 | UCF | Purdue | #22 | L13-47 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
UCF
1998-2003 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS -2.9 • Win % 54.5%
- Longest tenure
- UCF • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- UCF • -2.9 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- UCF • 54.5%
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 Kruczek sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeMike Kruczek sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Mike Kruczek
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -2.9
- Percentile
- 47th 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.
UCF
1998-2003 • 36-30
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -2.9Win % 54.5%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
UCF 1998
9-2 • SRS 6.4
Biggest Improvement
UCF 2000
7-4 • 5.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
UCF 1998
9-2 • SP Off 36.6
Best Defensive Season
UCF 2001
6-5 • SP Def 28.0
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
UCF 2003
3-7 • SRS -17.2
Biggest Drop
UCF 2003
3-7 • -16.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| UCF | 2003 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -17.2 | -21.8 | 19.3 | 38.6 | -16.7 | -28.3% | Partial season |
| UCF | 2002 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | -0.5 | 0.8 | 35.9 | 35.1 | -4.0 | +3.8% | Season summary |
| UCF | 2001 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | 3.5 | 3.7 | 30.1 | 28.0 | +5.3 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| UCF | 2000 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | -1.8 | -0.4 | 32.9 | 33.5 | +5.8 | +27.3% | Season summary |
| UCF | 1999 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -7.6 | -10.0 | 30.8 | 38.5 | -14.0 | -45.5% | Season summary |
| UCF | 1998 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | — | — | 6.4 | 10.2 | 36.6 | 28.4 | — | — | Season summary |
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