Top 25
63-56-1
- Games
- 120
- Win rate
- 52.9%
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Coach Profile
Steve Spurrier
1987-2015 • Duke, Florida, South Carolina
3 schools coached, anchored by Florida.
Steve Spurrier coached 26 seasons, won 71.8%, and posted an average SRS of 14.9. Best season: 1996 Florida. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 228-89-2
- Career win rate
- 71.8%
- Average SRS
- 14.9
- Peak SRS
- 31.2
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
- 26
- Career span
- 29 years
- Best finish
- #1
- Consistency
- 22.5
Primary school anchor
Florida
Offense-First profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 97.3.
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
- 228-89-2
- Florida record
- 122-27-1
- Full-season record
- 226-85-2
- Partial-season record
- 2-4
- Vs AP Top 10
- 25-32-1
- Vs AP Top 5
- 13-22
- Vs Georgia
- 11-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 16-12
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 1
319 countable games, 71.8% win rate.
12 countable seasons at Florida.
25 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.
58 games using AP ranking at game time.
35 games using AP ranking at game time.
Florida-Georgia games in this dataset.
28 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 28, 2015. 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.
Steve Spurrier
EliteStrongAverageLean
Steve Spurrier: 1990 FloridaSteve Spurrier: 2005 South Carolina
1987Actual season year • SRS range -0.4 to 31.22015
Active comparison point
Steve Spurrier • 1996
1996 Florida
Best season12-1 • SRS 31.2 • SP Overall 37.0
Win %
92.3%
YoY SRS
+5.1
SP Off / Def
51.9 / 20.0
Finish
#1
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
25-32-1
- Games
- 58
- Win rate
- 44.0%
Top 5
13-22
- Games
- 35
- Win rate
- 37.1%
View ranked game results120
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
South Carolina
2005-2015 • 11 seasons
Avg SRS 10.4 • Win % 63.7%
Florida
1990-2001 • 12 seasons
Avg SRS 22.0 • Win % 81.7%
Duke
1987-1989 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 2.9 • Win % 60.3%
- Longest tenure
- Florida • 12 seasons
- Best tenure
- Florida • 22.0 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Florida • 81.7%
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.
Steve Spurrier sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeSteve Spurrier sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Steve Spurrier
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 18.7
- Percentile
- 97th 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.
South Carolina
2005-2015 • 86-49
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 10.4Win % 63.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.4 during vs 6.6 baseline
+1.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
11.3 during vs 6.6 baseline
+4.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
15.6 during vs 10.0 baseline
+5.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
40.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
+0.0%
Florida
1990-2001 • 122-27-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 22.0Win % 81.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
10.2 during vs 6.3 baseline
+3.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
22.0 during vs 11.7 baseline
+10.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
27.4 during vs 15.8 baseline
+11.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
100.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
+80.0%
Duke
1987-1989 • 20-13-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 2.9Win % 60.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.7 during vs 3.8 baseline
+2.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
2.9 during vs -3.7 baseline
+6.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-0.5 during vs -8.3 baseline
+7.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Florida 1996
12-1 • SRS 31.2
Biggest Improvement
Florida 1993
11-2 • 14.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Florida 1996
12-1 • SP Off 51.9
Best Defensive Season
South Carolina 2009
7-6 • SP Def 13.2
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Duke 1988
7-3-1 • SRS -0.4
Biggest Drop
South Carolina 2005
7-5 • -27.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| South Carolina | 2015 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | 1.4 | 3.4 | 31.3 | 28.6 | -6.0 | -20.5% | Partial season |
| South Carolina | 2014 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | #9 | — | 7.4 | 17.4 | 43.6 | 26.5 | -10.3 | -30.8% | Season summary |
| South Carolina | 2013 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #6 | #4 | 17.7 | 19.8 | 40.7 | 20.6 | -1.1 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| South Carolina | 2012 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #9 | #8 | 18.8 | 16.1 | 33.2 | 15.5 | +5.0 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| South Carolina | 2011 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #12 | #9 | 13.8 | 18.6 | 33.3 | 14.6 | -1.8 | +20.3% | Season summary |
| South Carolina | 2010 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 64.3% | — | #22 | 15.6 | 20.3 | 38.6 | 19.0 | +7.9 | +10.4% | Season summary |
| South Carolina | 2009 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 7.7 | 13.9 | 27.0 | 13.2 | +0.7 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| South Carolina | 2008 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 7.0 | 7.8 | 23.7 | 16.3 | -1.8 | +3.9% | Season summary |
| South Carolina | 2007 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 8.8 | 16.2 | 33.2 | 18.4 | -3.9 | -11.5% | Season summary |
| South Carolina | 2006 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 12.7 | 19.1 | 38.0 | 20.2 | +9.4 | +3.2% | Season summary |
| South Carolina | 2005 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 3.3 | 6.3 | 26.3 | 20.0 | -27.1 | -25.0% | Season summary |
| Florida | 2001 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.3% | #1 | #3 | 30.4 | 32.3 | 50.1 | 20.2 | +10.0 | +6.4% | Season summary |
| Florida | 2000 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #9 | #10 | 20.4 | 28.2 | 46.3 | 21.0 | +4.0 | +7.7% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1999 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #5 | #12 | 16.4 | 21.7 | 40.8 | 21.5 | -4.0 | -14.1% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1998 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.3% | #3 | #5 | 20.4 | 24.1 | 38.2 | 14.4 | -3.5 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1997 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.3% | #2 | #4 | 23.9 | 29.1 | 44.9 | 17.7 | -7.3 | -9.0% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1996 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 92.3% | #4 | #1 | 31.2 | 37.0 | 51.9 | 20.0 | +5.1 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1995 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 92.3% | #5 | #2 | 26.1 | 30.5 | 50.5 | 23.7 | +2.2 | +11.5% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1994 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 80.8% | #1 | #7 | 23.9 | 29.1 | 48.3 | 21.8 | +1.3 | -3.9% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1993 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #9 | #5 | 22.6 | 30.0 | 48.8 | 20.6 | +14.1 | +15.4% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1992 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #4 | #10 | 8.5 | 14.1 | 34.4 | 21.5 | -13.5 | -14.1% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1991 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.3% | #5 | #7 | 22.0 | 28.8 | 42.5 | 14.7 | +3.7 | +1.5% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1990 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | — | #13 | 18.3 | 23.6 | 42.4 | 20.9 | +12.8 | +15.2% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1989 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 5.5 | 5.4 | 38.7 | 34.4 | +5.9 | -1.5% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1988 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 68.2% | — | — | -0.4 | -4.6 | 34.2 | 37.5 | -4.1 | +22.7% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1987 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 3.7 | -2.4 | 29.4 | 32.0 | — | — | Season summary |
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Avg SRS 13.9 • Peak SRS 27.8 • 24 seasons
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