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Terry Allen
1997-2001 • Kansas
One defining program at Kansas.
Terry Allen coached 5 seasons, won 37.7%, and posted an average SRS of -7.0. Best season: 1998 Kansas. The profile was offense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 20-33
- Career win rate
- 37.7%
- Average SRS
- -7.0
- Peak SRS
- -1.8
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
- 5
- Career span
- 5 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 91.1
Primary school anchor
Kansas
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 31.3.
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
- 20-33
- Kansas record
- 20-33
- Full-season record
- 18-27
- Partial-season record
- 2-6
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-7
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-4
- Vs Kansas State
- 0-4
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
53 countable games, 37.7% win rate.
5 countable seasons at Kansas.
4 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.
7 games using AP ranking at game time.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
Sunflower Showdown 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 24, 2001. 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.
Terry Allen
EliteStrongAverageLean
1997Actual season year • SRS range -10.5 to -1.82001
Active comparison point
Terry Allen • 1998
1998 Kansas
Best seasonBiggest improvement4-7 • SRS -1.8 • SP Overall -3.8
Win %
36.4%
YoY SRS
+7.7
SP Off / Def
31.1 / 34.6
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
0-7
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results15
| 2000 Regular Week 12 | Kansas | Texas | #19 | L16-51 |
| 2000 Regular Week 11 | Kansas | Nebraska | #5 | L17-56 |
| 2000 Regular Week 7 | Kansas | Kansas State | #4 | L13-52 |
| 2000 Regular Week 6 | Kansas | Oklahoma | #14 | L16-34 |
| 1999 Regular Week 10 | Kansas | Nebraska | #8 | L17-24 |
| 1999 Regular Week 8 | Kansas | Texas A&M | #13 | L17-34 |
| 1999 Regular Week 7 | Kansas | Kansas State | #9 | L9-50 |
| 1999 Regular Week 1 | Kansas | Notre Dame | #18 | L13-48 |
| 1998 Regular Week 10 | Kansas | Kansas State | #4 | L6-54 |
| 1998 Regular Week 9 | Kansas | Colorado | #24 | W33-17 |
| 1998 Regular Week 8 | Kansas | Nebraska | #7 | L0-41 |
| 1998 Regular Week 6 | Kansas | Texas A&M | #18 | L21-24 |
| 1998 Regular Week 3 | Kansas | Missouri | #21 | L23-41 |
| 1997 Regular Week 12 | Kansas | Kansas State | #11 | L16-48 |
| 1997 Regular Week 10 | Kansas | Nebraska | #1 | L0-35 |
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
1997-2001 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -7.0 • Win % 37.7%
- Longest tenure
- Kansas • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Kansas • -7.0 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Kansas • 37.7%
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.
Terry Allen sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeTerry Allen sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Terry Allen
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -5.5
- Percentile
- 40th 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
1997-2001 • 20-33
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -7.0Win % 37.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.5 during vs 6.6 baseline
-2.1
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-6.1 during vs 6.0 baseline
-12.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-5.2 during vs 8.3 baseline
-13.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
-40.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Kansas 1998
4-7 • SRS -1.8
Biggest Improvement
Kansas 1998
4-7 • 7.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Kansas 2000
4-7 • SP Off 35.6
Best Defensive Season
Kansas 1997
5-6 • SP Def 29.8
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Kansas 2001
2-6 • SRS -10.5
Biggest Drop
Kansas 1999
5-7 • -6.0 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Kansas | 2001 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -10.5 | -6.8 | 30.4 | 35.9 | -5.2 | -11.4% | Partial season |
| Kansas | 2000 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -5.3 | 0.7 | 35.6 | 35.0 | +2.5 | -5.3% | Season summary |
| Kansas | 1999 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -7.8 | -7.7 | 28.1 | 34.6 | -6.0 | +5.3% | Season summary |
| Kansas | 1998 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -1.8 | -3.8 | 31.1 | 34.6 | +7.7 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| Kansas | 1997 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -9.5 | -10.0 | 20.6 | 29.8 | — | — | Season summary |
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Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
Statistical comps
Chad Morris
same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.7
Avg SRS -7.6 • Peak SRS -2.0 • 5 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 3.5
Open profile →Tim Lester
same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.0
Avg SRS -8.0 • Peak SRS -4.4 • 6 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 3.5
Open profile →Tim Beck
same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.3
Avg SRS -7.2 • Peak SRS -0.9 • 3 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 4.6
Open profile →Brian Polian
same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.2
Avg SRS -8.2 • Peak SRS -2.1 • 4 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 4.2
Open profile →Mike Bobo
same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.3
Avg SRS -6.7 • Peak SRS 1.2 • 6 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 5.2
Open profile →Mark Duffner
same offense-first identity • volatility within 1.6
Avg SRS -4.9 • Peak SRS 0.6 • 5 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 4.8
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