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5-22-1
- Games
- 28
- Win rate
- 19.6%
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Dutch Meyer
1934-1952 • TCU
One defining program at TCU.
Dutch Meyer's coaching record is 109-79-13, highlighted by seasons at TCU from 1934 to 1952.
Dutch Meyer coached 19 seasons, won 57.5%, and posted an average SRS of 8.7. Best season: 1935 TCU. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 109-79-13
- Career win rate
- 57.5%
- Average SRS
- 8.7
- 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
- 19
- Career span
- 19 years
- Best finish
- #1
- Consistency
- 30.3
Primary school anchor
TCU
Balanced profile with 1 program stop 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
- 109-79-13
- TCU record
- 109-79-13
- Full-season record
- 109-79-13
- Vs AP Top 10
- 2-11
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-4
- Vs Baylor
- 10-6-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 3-4
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 1
201 countable games, 57.5% win rate.
19 countable seasons at TCU.
19 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
13 games using AP ranking at game time.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
Bluebonnet Battle games in this dataset.
7 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, 1952. 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.
Dutch Meyer
EliteStrongAverageLean
1934Actual season year • SRS range -12.5 to 23.61952
Active comparison point
Dutch Meyer • 1935
1935 TCU
Best seasonBiggest improvement12-1 • SRS 23.6 • SP Overall —
Win %
92.3%
YoY SRS
+13.7
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
2-11
- Games
- 13
- Win rate
- 15.4%
Top 5
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results28
| 1952 Regular Week 10 | TCU | Texas | #10 | L7-14 |
| 1952 Regular Week 3 | TCU | UCLA | #11 | L0-14 |
| 1952 Regular Week 2 | TCU | Kansas | #9 | L0-13 |
| 1951 Regular Week 10 | TCU | Texas | #16 | L21-32 |
| 1951 Regular Week 8 | TCU | Baylor | #10 | W20-7 |
| 1951 Regular Week 7 | TCU | USC | #6 | L26-28 |
| 1951 Regular Week 6 | TCU | Texas A&M | #18 | W20-14 |
| 1951 Regular Week 2 | TCU | Kansas | #20 | L13-27 |
| 1951 Postseason Week 1 | TCU | Kentucky | #15 | L7-20 |
| 1949 Regular Week 8 | TCU | Baylor | #9 | L14-40 |
| 1948 Regular Week 7 | TCU | Oklahoma | #8 | L18-21 |
| 1947 Postseason Week 1 | TCU | Ole Miss | #13 | L9-13 |
| 1946 Regular Week 8 | TCU | Oklahoma | #17 | L12-14 |
| 1945 Regular Week 8 | TCU | Oklahoma State | #6 | L12-25 |
| 1943 Regular Week 6 | TCU | Texas A&M | #14 | L0-13 |
| 1942 Regular Week 3 | TCU | UCLA | #11 | W7-6 |
| 1941 Regular Week 6 | TCU | Fordham | #11 | L14-28 |
| 1941 Regular Week 5 | TCU | Texas A&M | #4 | L0-14 |
| 1941 Postseason Week 1 | TCU | Georgia | #14 | L26-40 |
| 1940 Regular Week 6 | TCU | Texas A&M | #2 | L7-21 |
| 1939 Regular Week 6 | TCU | Texas A&M | #1 | L6-20 |
| 1939 Regular Week 3 | TCU | UCLA | #19 | L2-6 |
| 1938 Postseason Week 1 | TCU | Carnegie Mellon | #6 | W15-7 |
| 1937 Regular Week 6 | TCU | Fordham | #3 | L6-7 |
| 1937 Regular Week 3 | TCU | Arkansas | #16 | T7-7 |
| 1937 Regular Week 2 | TCU | Ohio State | #8 | L0-14 |
| 1936 Regular Week 5 | TCU | Texas A&M | #14 | L7-18 |
| 1936 Postseason Week 1 | TCU | Marquette | #20 | W16-6 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
TCU
1934-1952 • 19 seasons
Avg SRS 8.7 • Win % 57.5%
- Longest tenure
- TCU • 19 seasons
- Best tenure
- TCU • 8.7 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- TCU • 57.5%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Dutch Meyer
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
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.
TCU
1934-1952 • 109-79-13
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 8.7Win % 57.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.7 during vs 9.4 baseline
-3.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
8.7 during vs 14.9 baseline
-6.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
21.1% during vs 0.0% baseline
+21.1%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
TCU 1935
12-1 • SRS 23.6
Biggest Improvement
TCU 1935
12-1 • 13.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
TCU 1943
2-6 • SRS -12.5
Biggest Drop
TCU 1943
2-6 • -19.0 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| TCU | 1952 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 50.0% | #9 | — | 9.3 | — | — | — | -4.4 | -4.5% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1951 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | #11 | 13.7 | — | — | — | +4.6 | +4.5% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1950 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 9.1 | — | — | — | -1.9 | -15.0% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1949 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 65.0% | — | — | 11.0 | — | — | — | +3.6 | +20.0% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1948 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | — | — | 7.4 | — | — | — | -6.5 | -0.4% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1947 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 45.5% | — | — | 13.9 | — | — | — | +11.3 | +20.4% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1946 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 25.0% | — | — | 2.6 | — | — | — | +4.8 | -25.0% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1945 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -2.2 | — | — | — | -1.2 | -18.2% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1944 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 68.2% | — | — | -1.0 | — | — | — | +11.5 | +43.2% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1943 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -12.5 | — | — | — | -19.0 | -45.0% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1942 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 6.5 | — | — | — | -5.6 | +1.8% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1941 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 68.2% | — | — | 12.1 | — | — | — | +5.7 | +38.2% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1940 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | 6.4 | — | — | — | +1.2 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1939 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | 5.2 | — | — | — | -14.6 | -70.0% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1938 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #1 | 19.8 | — | — | — | +7.3 | +50.0% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1937 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 50.0% | — | #16 | 12.5 | — | — | — | -5.0 | -26.9% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1936 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 76.9% | — | #16 | 17.5 | — | — | — | -6.1 | -15.4% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1935 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 92.3% | — | — | 23.6 | — | — | — | +13.7 | +25.6% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1934 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 9.9 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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