Top 25
10-6
- Games
- 16
- Win rate
- 62.5%
Peak DominatorOffense-First
Coach Profile
Mark Helfrich
College football coaching record, Oregon years & career stats
2013-2016 • Oregon
One defining program at Oregon.
Mark Helfrich's coaching record is 37-16, highlighted by seasons at Oregon from 2013 to 2016.
Mark Helfrich coached 4 seasons, won 69.8%, and posted an average SRS of 17.1. Best season: 2014 Oregon. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 37-16
- Career win rate
- 69.8%
- Average SRS
- 17.1
- Peak SRS
- 27.1
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
- #2
- Consistency
- 10.8
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
- 37-16
- Oregon record
- 37-16
- Full-season record
- 37-16
- Vs AP Top 10
- 4-5
- Vs AP Top 5
- 1-3
- Vs Oregon State
- 3-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 2-2
- CFP record
- 1-1
- National titles
- 0
53 countable games, 69.8% win rate.
4 countable seasons at Oregon.
4 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.
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4 scored postseason games in this dataset.
2 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
Career Résumé
Mark Helfrich season milestones
Winning, 10-win, and undefeated seasons are derived from countable season rows. Finish and title totals use the tracked final-ranking data.
- Winning seasons
- 3
- 10-win seasons
- 2
- Undefeated seasons
- 0
- Top-10 finishes
- 2
- National titles
- 0
75% of countable seasons
Seasons with at least 10 wins
No losses or ties
Tracked final rankings
Championship seasons
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 26, 2016. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
Coach FAQ
Quick answers about Mark Helfrich
Who is Mark Helfrich?
Mark Helfrich is a college football coach in the CFBTrack coaching database with primary school context at Oregon, with a 37-16 career record from 2013-2016 across 4 countable seasons.
What is Mark Helfrich's college football coaching record?
Mark Helfrich's college football coaching record is 37-16 across 4 countable seasons, anchored by Oregon.
Which schools did Mark Helfrich coach?
Mark Helfrich coached at Oregon in the seasons covered by this profile.
How many winning seasons did Mark Helfrich have?
Mark Helfrich had 3 winning seasons across 4 countable season rows in this profile.
How many 10-win seasons did Mark Helfrich have?
Mark Helfrich had 2 seasons with at least 10 wins in the countable season data.
How many Top-10 finishes did Mark Helfrich have?
Mark Helfrich recorded 2 Top-10 final finishes in the tracked rankings.
What years did Mark Helfrich coach at Oregon?
Mark Helfrich's Oregon head coach years were 2013-2016, covering 4 countable seasons with a 37-16 record.
How did Mark Helfrich do against ranked opponents?
Mark Helfrich's AP Top 25 time-of-game record is 10-6 across 16 games.
How does CFBTrack count Mark Helfrich's coaching record?
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Mark Helfrich 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 the peaks, floors, and changes between seasons.
Mark Helfrich
EliteStrongAverageLean
2013Actual season year • SRS range 2.2 to 27.12016
Active comparison point
Mark Helfrich • 2014
2014 Oregon
Best seasonBiggest improvement13-2 • SRS 27.1 • SP Overall 24.7
Win %
86.7%
YoY SRS
+0.4
SP Off / Def
48.1 / 23.2
Finish
#2
Season context
Focus a point to inspect that season's record, rating, finish, and year-over-year change.
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
4-5
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 44.4%
Top 5
1-3
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 25.0%
View ranked game results16
| 2016 Regular Week 12 | Oregon | Utah | #11 | W30-28 |
| 2016 Regular Week 6 | Oregon | Washington | #5 | L21-70 |
| 2015 Regular Week 12 | Oregon | USC | #22 | W48-28 |
| 2015 Regular Week 11 | Oregon | Stanford | #7 | W38-36 |
| 2015 Regular Week 4 | Oregon | Utah | #18 | L20-62 |
| 2015 Regular Week 2 | Oregon | Michigan State | #5 | L28-31 |
| 2015 Postseason Week 1 | Oregon | TCU | #7 | L41-47 |
| 2014 Regular Week 15 | Oregon | Arizona | #8 | W51-13 |
| 2014 Regular Week 11 | Oregon | Utah | #20 | W51-27 |
| 2014 Regular Week 7 | Oregon | UCLA | #18 | W42-30 |
| 2014 Regular Week 2 | Oregon | Michigan State | #7 | W46-27 |
| 2014 Postseason Week 1 | Oregon | Ohio State | #1 | L20-42 |
| 2014 Postseason Week 1 | Oregon | Florida State | #5 | W59-20 |
| 2013 Regular Week 11 | Oregon | Stanford | #6 | L20-26 |
| 2013 Regular Week 9 | Oregon | UCLA | #12 | W42-14 |
| 2013 Regular Week 7 | Oregon | Washington | #16 | W45-24 |
Tenure map
Read the career chronologically. Each stint expands by seasons coached, with its record and average SRS kept in view.
Length = seasons coachedOldest to newest
- Longest tenure
- Oregon • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Oregon • 17.1 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Oregon • 69.8%
Style and Strength Profile
Read 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.
Overall Strength
Mark Helfrich sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Mark Helfrich
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 18.9
- Percentile
- 97th pct
Elite
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Mark Helfrich coaching record by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
Oregon
2013-2016 • 37-16
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 17.1Win % 69.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
9.3 during vs 11.2 baseline
-1.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
17.1 during vs 22.9 baseline
-5.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
18.9 during vs 24.9 baseline
-6.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
75.0% during vs 100.0% baseline
-25.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Oregon 2014
13-2 • SRS 27.1
Biggest Improvement
Oregon 2014
13-2 • 0.4 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Oregon 2014
13-2 • SP Off 48.1
Best Defensive Season
Oregon 2013
11-2 • SP Def 18.1
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Oregon 2016
4-8 • SRS 2.2
Biggest Drop
Oregon 2015
9-4 • -14.8 SRS
Mark Helfrich coaching record by season
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
Scroll horizontally for advanced ratings. Select any column heading to change the sort.
| OregonLowest | 2016 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | #24 | — | 2.2 | 6.1 | 42.5 | 36.1 | -10.1 | -35.9% | Season summary |
| Oregon | 2015 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #7 | #19 | 12.3 | 15.9 | 46.7 | 30.4 | -14.8 | -17.4% | Season summary |
| OregonBest | 2014 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 86.7% | #3 | #2 | 27.1 | 24.7 | 48.1 | 23.2 | +0.4 | +2.1% | Season summary |
| Oregon | 2013 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #3 | #9 | 26.7 | 28.7 | 46.8 | 18.1 | — | — | Season summary |
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Statistical comps
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Best finish #10 • Volatility 8.8
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Best finish #1 • Volatility 8.6
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