Top 25
8-12
- Games
- 20
- Win rate
- 40.0%
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Chris Klieman
2019-2025 • Kansas State
One defining program at Kansas State.
Chris Klieman's coaching record is 54-34, highlighted by seasons at Kansas State from 2019 to 2025.
Chris Klieman coached 7 seasons, won 61.4%, and posted an average SRS of 10.6. Best season: 2023 Kansas State. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 54-34
- Career win rate
- 61.4%
- Average SRS
- 10.6
- Peak SRS
- 19.6
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
- 7
- Career span
- 7 years
- Best finish
- #14
- Consistency
- 68.1
Primary school anchor
Kansas State
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 83.3.
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
- 54-34
- Kansas State record
- 54-34
- Full-season record
- 48-28
- Vs AP Top 10
- 5-4
- Vs AP Top 5
- 3-1
- Vs Kansas
- 7-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 3-2
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
88 countable games, 61.4% win rate.
7 countable seasons at Kansas State.
6 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
9 games using AP ranking at game time.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
Sunflower Showdown games in this dataset.
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 29, 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.
Chris Klieman
EliteStrongAverageLean
2019Actual season year • SRS range 1.0 to 19.62025
Active comparison point
Chris Klieman • 2023
2023 Kansas State
Best season9-4 • SRS 19.6 • SP Overall 16.2
Win %
69.2%
YoY SRS
+4.1
SP Off / Def
38.9 / 21.8
Finish
#18
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
5-4
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 55.6%
Top 5
3-1
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 75.0%
View ranked game results20
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 State
2019-2025 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS 10.6 • Win % 61.4%
- Longest tenure
- Kansas State • 7 seasons
- Best tenure
- Kansas State • 10.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Kansas State • 61.4%
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.
Chris Klieman sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeChris Klieman sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Chris Klieman
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 11.6
- Percentile
- 88th pct
Elite
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 State
2019-2025 • 54-34
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 10.6Win % 61.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.7 during vs 7.4 baseline
+0.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
10.6 during vs 8.3 baseline
+2.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
11.6 during vs 7.5 baseline
+4.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
28.6% during vs 20.0% baseline
+8.6%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Kansas State 2023
9-4 • SRS 19.6
Biggest Improvement
Kansas State 2021
8-5 • 7.6 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Kansas State 2023
9-4 • SP Off 38.9
Best Defensive Season
Kansas State 2022
10-4 • SP Def 15.7
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Kansas State 2020
4-6 • SRS 1.0
Biggest Drop
Kansas State 2020
4-6 • -9.4 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Kansas State | 2025 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 7.2 | 7.0 | 31.3 | 25.0 | -4.6 | -19.2% | Completed-game fallback |
| Kansas State | 2024 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #18 | — | 11.8 | 14.1 | 33.0 | 20.4 | -7.8 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Kansas State | 2023 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #16 | #18 | 19.6 | 16.2 | 38.9 | 21.8 | +4.1 | -2.2% | Season summary |
| Kansas State | 2022 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 71.4% | — | #14 | 15.5 | 21.4 | 36.4 | 15.7 | +6.9 | +9.9% | Season summary |
| Kansas State | 2021 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 8.6 | 14.2 | 33.5 | 19.0 | +7.6 | +21.5% | Season summary |
| Kansas State | 2020 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | 1.0 | 2.0 | 26.7 | 24.7 | -9.4 | -21.5% | Season summary |
| Kansas State | 2019 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 10.4 | 6.0 | 28.8 | 24.8 | — | — | 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
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Open profile →Ernest Graves
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