Top 25
4-17
- Games
- 21
- Win rate
- 19.1%
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Coach Profile
Dan Hawkins
2001-2010 • Boise State, Colorado
2 schools coached, anchored by Boise State.
Dan Hawkins's coaching record is 72-50, highlighted by seasons at Boise State from 2001 to 2010.
Dan Hawkins coached 10 seasons, won 59.0%, and posted an average SRS of 3.9. Best season: 2004 Boise State. The profile was offense-first with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 72-50
- Career win rate
- 59.0%
- Average SRS
- 3.9
- 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
- 10
- Career span
- 10 years
- Best finish
- #12
- Consistency
- 48.4
Primary school anchor
Boise State
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
- 72-50
- Boise State record
- 53-11
- Full-season record
- 69-44
- Partial-season record
- 3-6
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-5
- Vs AP Top 5
- 1-2
- Vs Nevada
- 5-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 2-3
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
122 countable games, 59.0% win rate.
5 countable seasons at Boise State.
9 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.
6 games using AP ranking at game time.
3 games using AP ranking at game time.
Boise State-Nevada games in this dataset.
5 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, 2010. 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.
Dan Hawkins
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Dan Hawkins: 2006 Colorado
2001Actual season year • SRS range -4.4 to 15.32010
Active comparison point
Dan Hawkins • 2004
2004 Boise State
Best season11-1 • SRS 15.3 • SP Overall 19.3
Win %
91.7%
YoY SRS
+4.8
SP Off / Def
50.9 / 36.9
Finish
#12
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
1-5
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 16.7%
Top 5
1-2
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 33.3%
View ranked game results21
| 2009 Regular Week 12 | Colorado | Oklahoma State | #12 | L28-31 |
| 2009 Regular Week 7 | Colorado | Kansas | #17 | W34-30 |
| 2009 Regular Week 6 | Colorado | Texas | #2 | L14-38 |
| 2008 Regular Week 12 | Colorado | Oklahoma State | #11 | L17-30 |
| 2008 Regular Week 9 | Colorado | Missouri | #16 | L0-58 |
| 2008 Regular Week 7 | Colorado | Kansas | #16 | L14-30 |
| 2008 Regular Week 6 | Colorado | Texas | #5 | L14-38 |
| 2008 Regular Week 4 | Colorado | West Virginia | #21 | W17-14 |
| 2007 Regular Week 10 | Colorado | Missouri | #9 | L10-55 |
| 2007 Regular Week 8 | Colorado | Kansas | #15 | L14-19 |
| 2007 Regular Week 5 | Colorado | Oklahoma | #3 | W27-24 |
| 2006 Regular Week 13 | Colorado | Nebraska | #23 | L14-37 |
| 2006 Regular Week 8 | Colorado | Oklahoma | #20 | L3-24 |
| 2006 Regular Week 5 | Colorado | Missouri | #25 | L13-28 |
| 2006 Regular Week 4 | Colorado | Georgia | #9 | L13-14 |
| 2006 Regular Week 3 | Colorado | Arizona State | #22 | L3-21 |
| 2005 Regular Week 11 | Boise State | Fresno State | #20 | L7-27 |
| 2005 Postseason Week 1 | Boise State | Boston College | #18 | L21-27 |
| 2004 Postseason Week 1 | Boise State | Louisville | #6 | L40-44 |
| 2003 Postseason Week 1 | Boise State | TCU | #25 | W34-31 |
| 2001 Regular Week 2 | Boise State | South Carolina | #21 | L13-32 |
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
2006-2010 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -1.5 • Win % 32.8%
Boise State
2001-2005 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 9.2 • Win % 82.8%
- Longest tenure
- Colorado • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Boise State • 9.2 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Boise State • 82.8%
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.
Dan Hawkins sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeDan Hawkins sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Dan Hawkins
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 5.4
- Percentile
- 73th 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
2006-2010 • 19-39
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -1.5Win % 32.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.0 during vs 7.8 baseline
-3.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-1.5 during vs 7.1 baseline
-8.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
0.9 during vs 12.4 baseline
-11.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
-40.0%
Boise State
2001-2005 • 53-11
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 9.2Win % 82.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
10.6 during vs 6.2 baseline
+4.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
9.2 during vs -9.2 baseline
+18.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
10.4 during vs -10.6 baseline
+21.0
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
60.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+60.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Boise State 2004
11-1 • SRS 15.3
Biggest Improvement
Boise State 2002
12-1 • 12.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Boise State 2004
11-1 • SP Off 50.9
Best Defensive Season
Colorado 2006
2-10 • SP Def 18.9
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Colorado 2009
3-9 • SRS -4.4
Biggest Drop
Boise State 2005
9-4 • -9.9 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Colorado | 2010 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -1.7 | -1.9 | 27.3 | 27.7 | +2.7 | +8.3% | Partial season |
| Colorado | 2009 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -4.4 | 0.2 | 20.6 | 19.3 | -2.3 | -16.7% | Season summary |
| Colorado | 2008 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -2.1 | -2.7 | 23.0 | 23.2 | -5.1 | -4.5% | Season summary |
| Colorado | 2007 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | 3.0 | 4.2 | 29.1 | 23.9 | +5.4 | +29.5% | Season summary |
| Colorado | 2006 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -2.4 | 1.8 | 20.1 | 18.9 | -7.8 | -52.6% | Season summary |
| Boise State | 2005 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #18 | — | 5.4 | 4.5 | 29.5 | 24.9 | -9.9 | -22.4% | Season summary |
| Boise State | 2004 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | — | #12 | 15.3 | 19.3 | 50.9 | 36.9 | +4.8 | -1.2% | Season summary |
| Boise State | 2003 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 92.9% | — | #16 | 10.5 | 12.8 | 41.5 | 31.6 | -3.4 | +0.5% | Season summary |
| Boise State | 2002 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 92.3% | — | #15 | 13.9 | 13.1 | 44.1 | 33.7 | +12.8 | +25.6% | Season summary |
| Boise State | 2001 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 1.1 | 2.4 | 35.9 | 34.4 | — | — | Season summary |
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