Top 25
20-27
- Games
- 47
- Win rate
- 42.5%
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Coach Profile
Gus Malzahn
2012-2024 • Arkansas State, Auburn, UCF
3 schools coached, anchored by Auburn.
Gus Malzahn's coaching record is 105-62, highlighted by seasons at Auburn from 2012 to 2024.
Gus Malzahn coached 13 seasons, won 62.9%, and posted an average SRS of 12.3. Best season: 2017 Auburn. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 105-62
- Career win rate
- 62.9%
- Average SRS
- 12.3
- Peak SRS
- 23.6
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
- 13
- Career span
- 13 years
- Best finish
- #2
- Consistency
- 34.0
Primary school anchor
Auburn
Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 90.5.
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
- 105-62
- Auburn record
- 68-35
- Full-season record
- 90-55
- Partial-season record
- 15-7
- Vs AP Top 10
- 7-19
- Vs AP Top 5
- 5-12
- Vs Georgia
- 2-6
- Postseason / bowl record
- 3-7
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
167 countable games, 62.9% win rate.
8 countable seasons at Auburn.
11 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.
26 games using AP ranking at game time.
17 games using AP ranking at game time.
Deep South's Oldest Rivalry games in this dataset.
10 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 30, 2024. 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.
Gus Malzahn
EliteStrongAverageLean
Gus Malzahn: 2013 AuburnGus Malzahn: 2021 UCF
2012Actual season year • SRS range 0.8 to 23.62024
Active comparison point
Gus Malzahn • 2017
2017 Auburn
Best season10-4 • SRS 23.6 • SP Overall 24.7
Win %
71.4%
YoY SRS
+6.8
SP Off / Def
35.4 / 11.0
Finish
#10
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
7-19
- Games
- 26
- Win rate
- 26.9%
Top 5
5-12
- Games
- 17
- Win rate
- 29.4%
View ranked game results47
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
UCF
2021-2024 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 4.7 • Win % 53.8%
Auburn
2013-2020 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS 17.2 • Win % 66.0%
Arkansas State
2012-2012 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS 3.6 • Win % 75.0%
- Longest tenure
- Auburn • 8 seasons
- Best tenure
- Auburn • 17.2 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Arkansas State • 75.0%
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.
Gus Malzahn sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeGus Malzahn sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Gus Malzahn
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 14.1
- Percentile
- 93th 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.
UCF
2021-2024 • 28-24
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 4.7Win % 53.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.0 during vs 9.4 baseline
-2.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
4.7 during vs 11.9 baseline
-7.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
5.3 during vs 11.9 baseline
-6.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
-40.0%
Auburn
2013-2020 • 68-35
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 17.2Win % 66.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.9 during vs 7.6 baseline
+1.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
18.5 during vs 7.2 baseline
+11.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
21.2 during vs 11.8 baseline
+9.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
71.4% during vs 20.0% baseline
+51.4%
Arkansas State
2012-2012 • 9-3
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 3.6Win % 75.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Auburn 2017
10-4 • SRS 23.6
Biggest Improvement
Auburn 2013
12-2 • 18.5 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Auburn 2013
12-2 • SP Off 46.8
Best Defensive Season
Auburn 2017
10-4 • SP Def 11.0
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
UCF 2021
9-4 • SRS 0.8
Biggest Drop
Auburn 2020
6-4 • -14.2 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| UCF | 2024 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | 6.2 | 2.8 | 29.0 | 25.8 | -0.7 | -12.8% | Season summary |
| UCF | 2023 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | 6.9 | 3.4 | 30.3 | 25.2 | +2.2 | -18.1% | Season summary |
| UCF | 2022 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 64.3% | — | — | 4.7 | 10.3 | 31.1 | 20.3 | +3.9 | -5.0% | Season summary |
| UCF | 2021 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | — | 0.8 | 4.8 | 29.6 | 23.4 | -7.1 | +9.2% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 2020 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | #11 | — | 7.9 | 12.6 | 33.0 | 20.7 | -14.2 | -9.2% | Partial season |
| Auburn | 2019 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #16 | #14 | 22.1 | 21.0 | 33.9 | 14.9 | +7.1 | +7.7% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 2018 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | #9 | — | 15.0 | 23.6 | 36.9 | 14.1 | -8.6 | -9.9% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 2017 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 71.4% | #12 | #10 | 23.6 | 24.7 | 35.4 | 11.0 | +6.8 | +9.9% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 2016 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | #24 | 16.8 | 15.3 | 32.1 | 18.4 | +7.7 | +7.7% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 2015 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | #6 | — | 9.1 | 14.6 | 36.1 | 23.1 | -12.0 | -7.7% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 2014 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | #6 | #22 | 21.1 | 24.2 | 45.2 | 22.1 | -1.0 | -24.2% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 2013 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.7% | — | #2 | 22.1 | 25.2 | 46.8 | 23.4 | +18.5 | +10.7% | Season summary |
| Arkansas State | 2012 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | — | — | 3.6 | 1.2 | 32.5 | 30.2 | — | — | Partial season |
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