Iowa
1899-1902 • 26-7-2
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 5.5Win % 77.1%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
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Alden Knipe
1899-1902 • Iowa
One defining program at Iowa.
Alden Knipe's coaching record is 26-7-2, highlighted by seasons at Iowa from 1899 to 1902.
Alden Knipe coached 4 seasons, won 77.1%, and posted an average SRS of 5.5. Best season: 1900 Iowa. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 26-7-2
- Career win rate
- 77.1%
- Average SRS
- 5.5
- Peak SRS
- 16.1
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
- 4
- Career span
- 4 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 18.7
Primary school anchor
Iowa
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 76.1.
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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
- 26-7-2
- Iowa record
- 26-7-2
- Full-season record
- 26-7-2
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-0
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Vs Minnesota
- 0-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
35 countable games, 77.1% win rate.
4 countable seasons at Iowa.
4 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
Iowa-Minnesota games in this dataset.
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 27, 1902. 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.
Alden Knipe
EliteStrongAverageLean
1899Actual season year • SRS range -6.3 to 16.11902
Active comparison point
Alden Knipe • 1900
1900 Iowa
Best season7-0-1 • SRS 16.1 • SP Overall —
Win %
93.8%
YoY SRS
+3.3
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.
No ranked opponents found for this poll and timing combination.
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Iowa
1899-1902 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 5.5 • Win % 77.1%
- Longest tenure
- Iowa • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Iowa • 5.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Iowa • 77.1%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Alden Knipe
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.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Iowa 1900
7-0-1 • SRS 16.1
Biggest Improvement
Iowa 1902
5-4 • 5.9 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Iowa 1901
6-3 • SRS -6.3
Biggest Drop
Iowa 1901
6-3 • -22.4 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Iowa | 1902 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | -0.4 | — | — | — | +5.9 | -11.1% | Season summary |
| Iowa | 1901 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | -6.3 | — | — | — | -22.4 | -27.1% | Season summary |
| Iowa | 1900 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 93.8% | — | — | 16.1 | — | — | — | +3.3 | -0.7% | Season summary |
| Iowa | 1899 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 94.4% | — | — | 12.8 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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