Top 25
13-19
- Games
- 32
- Win rate
- 40.6%
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Coach Profile
Chuck Fairbanks
1967-1981 • Colorado, Oklahoma
2 schools coached, anchored by Oklahoma.
Chuck Fairbanks coached 9 seasons, won 58.9%, and posted an average SRS of 13.9. Best season: 1971 Oklahoma. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 59-41-1
- Career win rate
- 58.9%
- Average SRS
- 13.9
- Peak SRS
- 34.7
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
- 9
- Career span
- 15 years
- Best finish
- #2
- Consistency
- 1.0
Primary school anchor
Oklahoma
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 98.9.
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.
Chuck Fairbanks
EliteStrongAverageLean
Chuck Fairbanks: 1979 Colorado
1967Actual season year • SRS range -12.6 to 34.71981
Active comparison point
Chuck Fairbanks • 1971
1971 Oklahoma
Best seasonBiggest improvement11-1 • SRS 34.7 • SP Overall 34.8
Win %
91.7%
YoY SRS
+15.1
SP Off / Def
— / 20.6
Finish
#2
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
8-10
- Games
- 18
- Win rate
- 44.4%
Top 5
4-7
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 36.4%
View ranked game results32
| 1981 Regular Week 9 | Colorado | Oklahoma | #19 | L0-49 |
| 1981 Regular Week 8 | Colorado | Iowa State | #14 | L10-17 |
| 1981 Regular Week 5 | Colorado | UCLA | #16 | L7-27 |
| 1981 Regular Week 4 | Colorado | BYU | #11 | L20-41 |
| 1980 Regular Week 9 | Colorado | Nebraska | #8 | L7-45 |
| 1980 Regular Week 8 | Colorado | Missouri | #16 | L7-45 |
| 1980 Regular Week 6 | Colorado | Oklahoma | #12 | L42-82 |
| 1979 Regular Week 9 | Colorado | Nebraska | #2 | L10-38 |
| 1979 Regular Week 6 | Colorado | Oklahoma | #3 | L24-49 |
| 1972 Regular Week 13 | Oklahoma | Oklahoma State | #20 | W38-15 |
| 1972 Regular Week 12 | Oklahoma | Nebraska | #5 | W17-14 |
| 1972 Regular Week 10 | Oklahoma | Missouri | #14 | W17-6 |
| 1972 Regular Week 9 | Oklahoma | Iowa State | #14 | W20-6 |
| 1972 Regular Week 7 | Oklahoma | Colorado | #9 | L14-20 |
| 1972 Regular Week 6 | Oklahoma | Texas | #10 | W27-0 |
| 1972 Postseason Week 1 | Oklahoma | Penn State | #10 | W14-0 |
| 1971 Regular Week 12 | Oklahoma | Nebraska | #1 | L31-35 |
| 1971 Regular Week 6 | Oklahoma | Colorado | #6 | W45-17 |
| 1971 Regular Week 5 | Oklahoma | Texas | #3 | W48-27 |
| 1971 Regular Week 4 | Oklahoma | USC | #17 | W33-20 |
| 1971 Postseason Week 1 | Oklahoma | Auburn | #12 | W40-22 |
| 1970 Regular Week 13 | Oklahoma | Nebraska | #3 | L21-28 |
| 1970 Regular Week 7 | Oklahoma | Texas | #2 | L9-41 |
| 1969 Regular Week 11 | Oklahoma | Nebraska | #13 | L14-44 |
| 1969 Regular Week 9 | Oklahoma | Missouri | #8 | L10-44 |
| 1969 Regular Week 7 | Oklahoma | Kansas State | #12 | L21-59 |
| 1969 Regular Week 5 | Oklahoma | Texas | #2 | L17-27 |
| 1968 Regular Week 10 | Oklahoma | Missouri | #6 | W28-14 |
| 1968 Regular Week 9 | Oklahoma | Kansas | #3 | W27-23 |
| 1968 Regular Week 2 | Oklahoma | Notre Dame | #3 | L21-45 |
| 1968 Postseason Week 1 | Oklahoma | SMU | #14 | L27-28 |
| 1967 Postseason Week 1 | Oklahoma | Tennessee | #2 | W26-24 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Colorado
1979-1981 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -6.0 • Win % 21.2%
Oklahoma
1967-1972 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 23.9 • Win % 77.2%
- Longest tenure
- Oklahoma • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- Oklahoma • 23.9 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Oklahoma • 77.2%
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.
Chuck Fairbanks sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeChuck Fairbanks sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Chuck Fairbanks
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 9.7
- Percentile
- 84th 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.
Colorado
1979-1981 • 7-26
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -6.0Win % 21.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
2.3 during vs 7.0 baseline
-4.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-6.0 during vs 12.0 baseline
-18.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-9.3 during vs 12.9 baseline
-22.2
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
-40.0%
Oklahoma
1967-1972 • 52-15-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 23.9Win % 77.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.7 during vs 6.2 baseline
+2.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
23.9 during vs 12.2 baseline
+11.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
28.6 during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
83.3% during vs 40.0% baseline
+43.3%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Oklahoma 1971
11-1 • SRS 34.7
Biggest Improvement
Oklahoma 1971
11-1 • 15.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Oklahoma 1972
11-1 • SP Off 40.0
Best Defensive Season
Oklahoma 1972
11-1 • SP Def 6.8
Setbacks
Worst Season
Colorado 1980
1-10 • SRS -12.6
Biggest Drop
Colorado 1979
3-8 • -34.2 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Colorado | 1981 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -3.7 | -7.4 | 22.3 | 29.2 | +8.9 | +18.2% |
| Colorado | 1980 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 9.1% | — | — | -12.6 | -15.7 | 27.4 | 39.7 | -10.9 | -18.2% |
| Colorado | 1979 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -1.7 | -4.9 | 22.0 | 27.0 | -34.2 | -64.4% |
| Oklahoma | 1972 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | #6 | #2 | 32.5 | 33.3 | 40.0 | 6.8 | -2.2 | 0.0% |
| Oklahoma | 1971 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | #10 | #2 | 34.7 | 34.8 | — | 20.6 | +15.1 | +29.2% |
| Oklahoma | 1970 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 62.5% | #20 | #20 | 19.6 | 17.8 | 35.4 | 19.2 | +6.3 | +2.5% |
| Oklahoma | 1969 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | #6 | — | 13.3 | — | — | — | -10.4 | -3.6% |
| Oklahoma | 1968 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | #4 | #11 | 23.7 | — | — | — | +4.2 | -27.3% |
| Oklahoma | 1967 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.9% | — | #3 | 19.5 | — | — | — | — | — |
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