Top 25
9-28-3
- Games
- 40
- Win rate
- 26.3%
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Coach Profile
Mike White
1972-1987 • California, Illinois
2 schools coached, anchored by Illinois.
Mike White's coaching record is 81-72-4, highlighted by seasons at Illinois from 1972 to 1987.
Mike White coached 14 seasons, won 52.9%, and posted an average SRS of 6.4. Best season: 1975 California. The profile was offense-first with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 81-72-4
- Career win rate
- 52.9%
- Average SRS
- 6.4
- Peak SRS
- 15.3
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
- 14
- Career span
- 16 years
- Best finish
- #10
- Consistency
- 54.8
Primary school anchor
Illinois
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 74.2.
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
- 81-72-4
- Illinois record
- 47-41-3
- Full-season record
- 81-72-4
- Vs AP Top 10
- 2-17-2
- Vs AP Top 5
- 2-9-1
- Vs Northwestern
- 6-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-3
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
157 countable games, 52.9% win rate.
8 countable seasons at Illinois.
14 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
21 games using AP ranking at game time.
12 games using AP ranking at game time.
Illinois-Northwestern games in this dataset.
3 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 21, 1987. 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.
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Mike White: 1980 Illinois
1972Actual season year • SRS range -2.9 to 15.31987
Active comparison point
Mike White • 1975
1975 California
Best season8-3 • SRS 15.3 • SP Overall 16.6
Win %
72.7%
YoY SRS
+6.7
SP Off / Def
38.8 / 24.0
Finish
#14
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
2-17-2
- Games
- 21
- Win rate
- 14.3%
Top 5
2-9-1
- Games
- 12
- Win rate
- 20.8%
View ranked game results40
| 1987 Regular Week 11 | Illinois | Indiana | #16 | L22-34 |
| 1987 Regular Week 9 | Illinois | Michigan State | #20 | T14-14 |
| 1987 Regular Week 6 | Illinois | Ohio State | #9 | L6-10 |
| 1987 Regular Week 3 | Illinois | Arizona State | #15 | L7-21 |
| 1986 Regular Week 10 | Illinois | Michigan | #3 | L13-69 |
| 1986 Regular Week 4 | Illinois | Nebraska | #4 | L14-59 |
| 1985 Regular Week 11 | Illinois | Iowa | #6 | L0-59 |
| 1985 Regular Week 10 | Illinois | Michigan | #4 | T3-3 |
| 1985 Regular Week 6 | Illinois | Ohio State | #5 | W31-28 |
| 1985 Regular Week 4 | Illinois | Nebraska | #18 | L25-52 |
| 1985 Regular Week 2 | Illinois | USC | #6 | L10-20 |
| 1984 Regular Week 8 | Illinois | Ohio State | #8 | L38-45 |
| 1983 Regular Week 10 | Illinois | Michigan | #13 | W16-6 |
| 1983 Regular Week 8 | Illinois | Ohio State | #17 | W17-13 |
| 1983 Regular Week 6 | Illinois | Iowa | #15 | W33-0 |
| 1983 Postseason Week 1 | Illinois | UCLA | #17 | L9-45 |
| 1982 Regular Week 10 | Illinois | Michigan | #15 | L10-16 |
| 1982 Regular Week 5 | Illinois | Minnesota | #19 | W42-24 |
| 1982 Regular Week 4 | Illinois | Pittsburgh | #3 | L3-20 |
| 1981 Regular Week 10 | Illinois | Michigan | #12 | L21-70 |
| 1981 Regular Week 9 | Illinois | Iowa | #16 | W24-7 |
| 1980 Regular Week 11 | Illinois | Ohio State | #7 | L42-49 |
| 1980 Regular Week 9 | Illinois | Michigan | #18 | L14-45 |
| 1980 Regular Week 4 | Illinois | Missouri | #12 | L7-52 |
| 1977 Regular Week 9 | California | USC | #16 | W17-14 |
| 1976 Regular Week 9 | California | USC | #4 | L6-20 |
| 1976 Regular Week 8 | California | UCLA | #3 | L19-35 |
| 1976 Regular Week 3 | California | Oklahoma | #4 | L17-28 |
| 1976 Regular Week 2 | California | Georgia | #9 | L24-36 |
| 1975 Regular Week 9 | California | USC | #4 | W28-14 |
| 1975 Regular Week 8 | California | UCLA | #19 | L14-28 |
| 1975 Regular Week 3 | California | West Virginia | #20 | L10-28 |
| 1974 Regular Week 9 | California | USC | #6 | T15-15 |
| 1974 Regular Week 5 | California | Illinois | #14 | W31-14 |
| 1973 Regular Week 10 | California | USC | #8 | L14-50 |
| 1973 Regular Week 9 | California | UCLA | #10 | L21-61 |
| 1973 Regular Week 3 | California | Alabama | #4 | L0-66 |
| 1972 Regular Week 7 | California | UCLA | #11 | L13-49 |
| 1972 Regular Week 6 | California | USC | #1 | L14-42 |
| 1972 Regular Week 5 | California | Ohio State | #3 | L18-35 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Illinois
1980-1987 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS 5.3 • Win % 53.3%
California
1972-1977 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 7.9 • Win % 52.3%
- Longest tenure
- Illinois • 8 seasons
- Best tenure
- California • 7.9 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Illinois • 53.3%
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.
Mike White sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeMike White sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Mike White
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- Raw avg SP Overall
- 5.5
- Percentile
- 74th pct
Strong
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.
Illinois
1980-1987 • 47-41-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 5.3Win % 53.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.9 during vs 3.2 baseline
+2.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
5.3 during vs -1.2 baseline
+6.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
4.8 during vs -6.3 baseline
+11.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
12.5% during vs 0.0% baseline
+12.5%
California
1972-1977 • 34-31-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 7.9Win % 52.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.7 during vs 5.8 baseline
-0.1
Avg SRS
Higher is better
7.9 during vs 9.6 baseline
-1.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
6.4 during vs 6.9 baseline
-0.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
16.7% during vs 0.0% baseline
+16.7%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
California 1975
8-3 • SRS 15.3
Biggest Improvement
California 1974
7-3-1 • 10.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
California 1975
8-3 • SP Off 38.8
Best Defensive Season
California 1976
5-6 • SP Def 19.6
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Illinois 1986
4-7 • SRS -2.9
Biggest Drop
Illinois 1980
3-7-1 • -14.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Illinois | 1987 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 31.8% | — | — | -2.8 | -5.4 | 16.5 | 22.0 | +0.1 | -4.5% | Season summary |
| Illinois | 1986 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -2.9 | -2.8 | 25.7 | 28.5 | -8.9 | -17.8% | Season summary |
| Illinois | 1985 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 54.2% | #11 | — | 6.0 | 10.0 | 36.6 | 28.7 | -5.5 | -9.5% | Season summary |
| Illinois | 1984 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 11.5 | 11.2 | 34.2 | 25.0 | -1.1 | -19.7% | Season summary |
| Illinois | 1983 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.3% | — | #10 | 12.6 | 14.0 | 34.7 | 22.0 | -1.3 | +25.0% | Season summary |
| Illinois | 1982 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 13.9 | 11.6 | 33.8 | 23.8 | +8.8 | -5.3% | Season summary |
| Illinois | 1981 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 5.1 | 5.4 | 34.2 | 30.4 | +6.0 | +31.8% | Season summary |
| Illinois | 1980 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 31.8% | — | — | -0.9 | -5.6 | 29.2 | 34.2 | -14.7 | -31.8% | Season summary |
| California | 1977 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 13.8 | 10.1 | 32.6 | 24.1 | +5.9 | +18.2% | Season summary |
| California | 1976 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | #15 | — | 7.9 | 11.6 | 30.1 | 19.6 | -7.4 | -27.3% | Season summary |
| California | 1975 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | #14 | 15.3 | 16.6 | 38.8 | 24.0 | +6.7 | +4.5% | Season summary |
| California | 1974 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 68.2% | — | — | 8.6 | 7.8 | 30.3 | 23.8 | +10.2 | +31.8% | Season summary |
| California | 1973 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -1.6 | -8.5 | 31.2 | 37.5 | -4.9 | +9.1% | Season summary |
| California | 1972 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | 3.3 | 0.8 | 30.4 | 30.2 | — | — | Season summary |
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