Top 25
27-25
- Games
- 52
- Win rate
- 51.9%
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Gary Patterson
2000-2021 • TCU
One defining program at TCU.
Gary Patterson's coaching record is 181-79, highlighted by seasons at TCU from 2000 to 2021.
Gary Patterson coached 22 seasons, won 69.6%, and posted an average SRS of 9.8. Best season: 2014 TCU. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 181-79
- Career win rate
- 69.6%
- Average SRS
- 9.8
- Peak SRS
- 26.8
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
- 22
- Career span
- 22 years
- Best finish
- #2
- Consistency
- 29.7
Primary school anchor
TCU
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 94.3.
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
- 181-79
- TCU record
- 181-79
- Full-season record
- 178-73
- Partial-season record
- 3-6
- Vs AP Top 10
- 9-14
- Vs AP Top 5
- 2-7
- Vs Baylor
- 9-4
- Postseason / bowl record
- 11-5
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
260 countable games, 69.6% win rate.
22 countable seasons at TCU.
20 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.
23 games using AP ranking at game time.
9 games using AP ranking at game time.
Bluebonnet Battle games in this dataset.
16 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 26, 2021. 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.
Gary Patterson
EliteStrongAverageLean
2000Actual season year • SRS range -4.2 to 26.82021
Active comparison point
Gary Patterson • 2014
2014 TCU
Best seasonBiggest improvement12-1 • SRS 26.8 • SP Overall 23.3
Win %
92.3%
YoY SRS
+21.0
SP Off / Def
39.3 / 17.5
Finish
#3
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
9-14
- Games
- 23
- Win rate
- 39.1%
Top 5
2-7
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 22.2%
View ranked game results52
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
2000-2021 • 22 seasons
Avg SRS 9.8 • Win % 69.6%
- Longest tenure
- TCU • 22 seasons
- Best tenure
- TCU • 9.8 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- TCU • 69.6%
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.
Gary Patterson sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeGary Patterson sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Gary Patterson
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 11.5
- 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.
TCU
2000-2021 • 181-79
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 9.8Win % 69.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.9 during vs 5.2 baseline
+3.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
10.1 during vs -5.6 baseline
+15.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
11.9 during vs -6.8 baseline
+18.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
55.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+55.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
TCU 2014
12-1 • SRS 26.8
Biggest Improvement
TCU 2014
12-1 • 21.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
TCU 2015
11-2 • SP Off 40.8
Best Defensive Season
TCU 2009
12-1 • SP Def 11.4
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
TCU 2004
5-6 • SRS -4.2
Biggest Drop
TCU 2001
6-6 • -15.6 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| TCU | 2021 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 37.5% | — | — | -2.8 | -0.6 | 33.2 | 33.9 | -10.5 | -22.5% | Partial season |
| TCU | 2020 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 7.7 | 1.6 | 24.3 | 22.8 | -1.9 | +18.3% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2019 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | 9.6 | 6.7 | 28.8 | 22.9 | +5.3 | -12.2% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2018 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | #16 | — | 4.3 | 6.9 | 25.7 | 16.9 | -12.5 | -24.7% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2017 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 78.6% | — | #9 | 16.8 | 18.9 | 35.7 | 18.7 | +12.5 | +32.4% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2016 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | #13 | — | 4.3 | 11.0 | 34.5 | 23.4 | -10.4 | -38.5% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2015 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #2 | #7 | 14.7 | 19.0 | 40.8 | 21.7 | -12.1 | -7.7% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2014 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 92.3% | — | #3 | 26.8 | 23.3 | 39.3 | 17.5 | +21.0 | +59.0% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2013 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | #20 | — | 5.8 | 12.4 | 24.9 | 15.0 | -4.2 | -20.5% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2012 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | #20 | — | 10.0 | 12.9 | 28.6 | 17.7 | -0.4 | -30.8% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2011 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #14 | #14 | 10.4 | 15.7 | 37.7 | 23.3 | -12.2 | -15.4% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2010 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | #6 | #2 | 22.6 | 25.2 | 39.4 | 15.8 | +0.2 | +7.7% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2009 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 92.3% | #17 | #6 | 22.4 | 25.6 | 36.0 | 11.4 | +4.3 | +7.7% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2008 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | — | #7 | 18.1 | 19.2 | 30.5 | 11.8 | +13.7 | +23.1% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2007 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | #22 | — | 4.4 | 6.4 | 24.4 | 19.0 | -7.0 | -23.1% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2006 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #22 | #22 | 11.4 | 17.3 | 29.2 | 12.7 | -0.4 | -7.0% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2005 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | — | #11 | 11.8 | 10.5 | 28.3 | 17.7 | +16.0 | +46.2% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2004 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -4.2 | -3.9 | 39.3 | 41.2 | -5.5 | -39.2% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2003 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #25 | #25 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 31.4 | 30.5 | -3.9 | +1.3% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2002 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.3% | — | #23 | 5.2 | 7.5 | 32.4 | 27.0 | +5.8 | +33.3% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2001 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -0.6 | 0.4 | 29.2 | 29.2 | -15.6 | +50.0% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | #20 | #21 | 15.0 | 14.7 | 35.3 | 21.8 | — | — | Partial season |
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