Top 25
63-56-1
- Games
- 120
- Win rate
- 52.9%
Peak DominatorOffense-FirstLong Career
Coach Profile
Steve Spurrier
College football coaching record, Florida years & career stats
1987-2015 • Duke, Florida, South Carolina
3 schools coached, anchored by Florida.
Steve Spurrier's coaching record is 228-89-2, highlighted by seasons at Florida from 1987 to 2015.
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
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.
Career Résumé
Steve Spurrier season milestones
Winning, 10-win, and undefeated seasons are derived from countable season rows. Finish and title totals use the tracked final-ranking data.
- Winning seasons
- 23
- 10-win seasons
- 12
- Undefeated seasons
- 0
- Top-10 finishes
- 13
- National titles
- 1
88% of countable seasons
Seasons with at least 10 wins
No losses or ties
Tracked final rankings
Championship seasons
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.
Coach FAQ
Quick answers about Steve Spurrier
Who is Steve Spurrier?
Steve Spurrier is a college football coach in the CFBTrack coaching database with primary school context at Florida, with a 228-89-2 career record from 1987-2015 across 26 countable seasons.
What is Steve Spurrier's college football coaching record?
Steve Spurrier's college football coaching record is 228-89-2 across 26 countable seasons, anchored by Florida.
Which schools did Steve Spurrier coach?
Steve Spurrier coached at Duke, Florida, South Carolina in the seasons covered by this profile.
How many winning seasons did Steve Spurrier have?
Steve Spurrier had 23 winning seasons across 26 countable season rows in this profile.
How many 10-win seasons did Steve Spurrier have?
Steve Spurrier had 12 seasons with at least 10 wins in the countable season data.
How many Top-10 finishes did Steve Spurrier have?
Steve Spurrier recorded 13 Top-10 final finishes in the tracked rankings.
What years did Steve Spurrier coach at Florida?
Steve Spurrier's Florida head coach years were 1990-2001, covering 12 countable seasons with a 122-27-1 record.
How did Steve Spurrier do against ranked opponents?
Steve Spurrier's AP Top 25 time-of-game record is 63-56-1 across 120 games.
How does CFBTrack count Steve Spurrier's coaching record?
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Steve Spurrier 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 the peaks, floors, and changes between seasons.
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
Season context
Focus a point to inspect that season's record, rating, finish, and year-over-year change.
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
Read the career chronologically. Each stint expands by seasons coached, with its record and average SRS kept in view.
Length = seasons coachedOldest to newest
- Longest tenure
- Florida • 12 seasons
- Best tenure
- Florida • 22.0 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Florida • 81.7%
Style and Strength Profile
Read 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.
Overall Strength
Steve 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.
Steve Spurrier coaching record 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
Steve Spurrier coaching record by season
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
Scroll horizontally for advanced ratings. Select any column heading to change the sort.
| South Carolina | 2015 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | 1.4 | 3.4 | 31.3 | 28.6 | -6.0 | -20.5% | Partial |
| 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 |
| FloridaBest | 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 |
| DukeLowest | 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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