Top 25
1-11
- Games
- 12
- Win rate
- 8.3%
Coach Profile
1973-1981 • Colorado State
One defining program at Colorado State.
Sarkis Arslanian coached 9 seasons, won 49.0%, and posted an average SRS of -4.7. Best season: 1977 Colorado State. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.
Career Dossier
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
Primary school anchor
Colorado State
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 48.5.
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.
Active comparison point
9-2-1 • SRS 5.4 • SP Overall 6.5
Win %
79.2%
YoY SRS
+12.2
SP Off / Def
27.5 / 22.1
Finish
Unranked
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
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 25
1-11
Top 10
0-0
Top 5
0-0
| 1981 Regular Week 12 | Colorado State | Arizona State | #20 | L7-52 |
| 1981 Regular Week 6 | Colorado State | Mississippi State | #19 | L27-37 |
| 1980 Regular Week 12 | Colorado State | BYU | #13 | L14-45 |
| 1979 Regular Week 10 | Colorado State | BYU | #11 | L7-30 |
| 1979 Regular Week 3 | Colorado State | Arkansas | #15 | L3-36 |
| 1977 Regular Week 12 | Colorado State | Arizona State | #19 | W25-14 |
| 1977 Regular Week 7 | Colorado State | BYU | #17 | L17-63 |
| 1975 Regular Week 11 | Colorado State | Arizona | #12 | L9-31 |
| 1975 Regular Week 7 | Colorado State | Arizona State | #11 | L3-33 |
| 1975 Regular Week 2 | Colorado State | Texas | #12 | L0-46 |
| 1973 Regular Week 11 | Colorado State | Houston | #15 | L20-28 |
| 1973 Regular Week 5 | Colorado State | Arizona State | #12 | L14-67 |
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Colorado State
1973-1981 • 9 seasons
Avg SRS -4.7 • Win % 49.0%
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.
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Sarkis Arslanian sets the reference point in overall strength.
Sarkis Arslanian sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Sarkis Arslanian
Lower end
Lower end
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
1973-1981 • 45-47-4
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.0 during vs 2.8 baseline
+2.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-4.7 during vs -12.2 baseline
+7.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-5.9 during vs -14.5 baseline
+8.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
High Points
Best Season
Colorado State 1977
9-2-1 • SRS 5.4
Biggest Improvement
Colorado State 1977
9-2-1 • 12.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Colorado State 1974
4-6-1 • SP Off 29.0
Best Defensive Season
Colorado State 1977
9-2-1 • SP Def 22.1
Setbacks
Worst Season
Colorado State 1981
0-6 • SRS -17.8
Biggest Drop
Colorado State 1981
0-6 • -12.4 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Colorado State | 1981 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | -17.8 | -20.2 | 24.9 | 41.4 | -12.4 | -59.1% |
| Colorado State | 1980 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 59.1% | — | — | -5.4 | -5.2 | 29.0 | 33.9 | -1.8 | +21.6% |
| Colorado State | 1979 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 37.5% | — | — | -3.6 | -3.2 | 19.0 | 22.4 | -1.1 | -8.0% |
| Colorado State | 1978 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -2.5 | -5.6 | 24.4 | 29.8 | -7.9 | -33.7% |
| Colorado State | 1977 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 79.2% | — | — | 5.4 | 6.5 | 27.5 | 22.1 | +12.2 | +24.6% |
| Colorado State | 1976 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -6.8 | -11.5 | 15.1 | 25.8 | -6.4 | 0.0% |
| Colorado State | 1975 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -0.4 | -2.0 | 21.1 | 23.2 | 0.0 | +13.6% |
| Colorado State | 1974 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 40.9% | — | — | -0.4 | -1.0 | 29.0 | 30.1 | +10.0 | -4.5% |
| Colorado State | 1973 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -10.4 | -10.6 | 28.1 | 36.5 | — | — |
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