Top 25
0-10
- Games
- 10
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Back to Coaches
Volatile BuilderDefense-First
Coach Profile
Frank Lauterbur
1963-1973 • Iowa, Toledo
2 schools coached, anchored by Toledo.
Frank Lauterbur's coaching record is 52-60-3, highlighted by seasons at Toledo from 1963 to 1973.
Frank Lauterbur coached 11 seasons, won 46.5%, and posted an average SRS of -4.6. Best season: 1969 Toledo. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 52-60-3
- Career win rate
- 46.5%
- Average SRS
- -4.6
- Peak SRS
- 11.5
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
- #12
- Consistency
- 11.9
Primary school anchor
Toledo
Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 65.1.
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
- 52-60-3
- Toledo record
- 48-32-2
- Full-season record
- 52-60-3
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-6
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-5
- Vs Bowling Green
- 3-4-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 2-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
115 countable games, 46.5% win rate.
8 countable seasons at Toledo.
11 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
6 games using AP ranking at game time.
5 games using AP ranking at game time.
Bowling Green-Toledo 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 24, 1973. 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.
Frank Lauterbur
EliteStrongAverageLean
Frank Lauterbur: 1971 Iowa
1963Actual season year • SRS range -21.4 to 11.51973
Active comparison point
Frank Lauterbur • 1969
1969 Toledo
Best season11-0 • SRS 11.5 • SP Overall —
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
+15.0
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.
Top 10
0-6
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results10
| 1973 Regular Week 12 | Iowa | Ohio State | #1 | L13-55 |
| 1973 Regular Week 5 | Iowa | Penn State | #7 | L8-27 |
| 1973 Regular Week 4 | Iowa | UCLA | #17 | L18-55 |
| 1973 Regular Week 3 | Iowa | Michigan | #5 | L7-31 |
| 1972 Regular Week 10 | Iowa | Michigan | #4 | L0-31 |
| 1972 Regular Week 4 | Iowa | Penn State | #13 | L10-14 |
| 1972 Regular Week 2 | Iowa | Ohio State | #3 | L0-21 |
| 1971 Regular Week 9 | Iowa | Michigan | #3 | L7-63 |
| 1971 Regular Week 3 | Iowa | Penn State | #12 | L14-44 |
| 1971 Regular Week 1 | Iowa | Ohio State | #11 | L21-52 |
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
1971-1973 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -6.3 • Win % 13.6%
Toledo
1963-1970 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS -4.0 • Win % 59.8%
- Longest tenure
- Toledo • 8 seasons
- Best tenure
- Toledo • -4.0 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Toledo • 59.8%
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.
Frank Lauterbur sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeFrank Lauterbur sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Frank Lauterbur
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -3.6
- Percentile
- 45th 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.
Iowa
1971-1973 • 4-28-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -6.3Win % 13.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
1.3 during vs 3.2 baseline
-1.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-6.3 during vs -0.9 baseline
-5.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-12.1 during vs -14.1 baseline
+2.0
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Toledo
1963-1970 • 48-32-2
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -4.0Win % 59.8%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Toledo 1969
11-0 • SRS 11.5
Biggest Improvement
Toledo 1967
9-1 • 17.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Toledo 1970
12-0 • SP Off 33.8
Best Defensive Season
Toledo 1970
12-0 • SP Def 12.5
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Toledo 1963
2-7 • SRS -21.4
Biggest Drop
Iowa 1971
1-10 • -21.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Iowa | 1973 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | -5.6 | -11.5 | 25.4 | 34.8 | -3.7 | -31.8% | Season summary |
| Iowa | 1972 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 31.8% | — | — | -1.9 | -7.7 | 12.8 | 19.9 | +9.6 | +22.7% | Season summary |
| Iowa | 1971 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 9.1% | — | — | -11.5 | -17.2 | 19.5 | 35.1 | -21.1 | -90.9% | Season summary |
| Toledo | 1970 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #12 | 9.6 | 21.9 | 33.8 | 12.5 | -1.9 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Toledo | 1969 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | — | 11.5 | — | — | — | +15.0 | +45.0% | Season summary |
| Toledo | 1968 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | -3.5 | — | — | — | -12.1 | -35.0% | Season summary |
| Toledo | 1967 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 90.0% | — | — | 8.6 | — | — | — | +17.7 | +65.0% | Season summary |
| Toledo | 1966 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 25.0% | — | — | -9.1 | — | — | — | +1.7 | -25.0% | Season summary |
| Toledo | 1965 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -10.8 | — | — | — | +5.8 | +30.0% | Season summary |
| Toledo | 1964 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 20.0% | — | — | -16.6 | — | — | — | +4.8 | -2.2% | Season summary |
| Toledo | 1963 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 22.2% | — | — | -21.4 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
Similar coaches
Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
Statistical comps
Doc Holliday
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.9
Avg SRS -3.7 • Peak SRS 14.6 • 11 seasons
Best finish #23 • Volatility 9.2
Open profile →Jim McElwain
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.8
Avg SRS -3.8 • Peak SRS 12.4 • 12 seasons
Best finish #14 • Volatility 9.0
Open profile →Chuck Mills
same defense-first identity • volatility within 1.6
Avg SRS -2.5 • Peak SRS 10.9 • 11 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 8.7
Open profile →Joe Kerbel
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.3
Avg SRS -3.3 • Peak SRS 5.2 • 11 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 7.3
Open profile →Derek Mason
same defense-first identity • volatility within 0.4
Avg SRS -8.1 • Peak SRS 9.9 • 9 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 9.9
Open profile →Craig Bohl
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.0
Avg SRS -4.6 • Peak SRS 2.5 • 10 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 6.3
Open profile →