Top 25
2-4
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 33.3%
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Major Applewhite
2016-2025 • Houston, South Alabama
2 schools coached, anchored by Houston.
Major Applewhite's coaching record is 26-25, highlighted by seasons at Houston from 2016 to 2025.
Major Applewhite coached 5 seasons, won 51.0%, and posted an average SRS of -1.5. Best season: 2016 Houston. The profile was offense-first with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 26-25
- Career win rate
- 51.0%
- Average SRS
- -1.5
- Peak SRS
- 5.4
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
- 5
- Career span
- 10 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 56.5
Primary school anchor
Houston
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 48.5.
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
- 26-25
- Houston record
- 15-11
- Full-season record
- 22-16
- Partial-season record
- 0-1
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-0
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Vs Rice
- 2-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-2
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
51 countable games, 51.0% win rate.
3 countable seasons at Houston.
3 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.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
Houston-Rice games in this dataset.
3 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 29, 2025. At least one season record was backfilled from completed games, so current-season totals may move as more scores are loaded.
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.
Major Applewhite
EliteStrongAverageLean
Major Applewhite: 2024 South Alabama
2016Actual season year • SRS range -12.8 to 5.42025
Active comparison point
Major Applewhite • 2016
2016 Houston
Best season0-1 • SRS 5.4 • SP Overall 10.1
Win %
0.0%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
30.8 / 21.7
Finish
Unranked
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
0-0
- Games
- 0
- Win rate
- —
Top 5
0-0
- Games
- 0
- Win rate
- —
View ranked game results6
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 Alabama
2024-2025 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -7.3 • Win % 44.0%
Houston
2016-2018 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 2.3 • Win % 57.7%
- Longest tenure
- Houston • 3 seasons
- Best tenure
- Houston • 2.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Houston • 57.7%
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.
Major Applewhite sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeMajor Applewhite sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Major Applewhite
Above average
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 2.0
- Percentile
- 64th pct
Above average
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 Alabama
2024-2025 • 11-14
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -7.3Win % 44.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.5 during vs 5.6 baseline
-0.1
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-7.3 during vs -6.8 baseline
-0.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-5.0 during vs -4.6 baseline
-0.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Houston
2016-2018 • 15-11
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 2.3Win % 57.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.5 during vs 8.4 baseline
-0.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
0.8 during vs 4.8 baseline
-4.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
5.0 during vs 5.0 baseline
-0.0
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
-40.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Houston 2016
0-1 • SRS 5.4
Biggest Improvement
South Alabama 2024
7-6 • -0.6 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Houston 2018
8-5 • SP Off 36.7
Best Defensive Season
Houston 2016
0-1 • SP Def 21.7
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
South Alabama 2025
4-8 • SRS -12.8
Biggest Drop
South Alabama 2025
4-8 • -11.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| South Alabama | 2025 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -12.8 | -12.7 | 25.4 | 36.0 | -11.1 | -20.5% | Completed-game fallback |
| South Alabama | 2024 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -1.7 | 2.8 | 29.9 | 26.9 | -0.6 | -7.7% | Season summary |
| Houston | 2018 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | -1.1 | 2.3 | 36.7 | 34.9 | -3.8 | +3.2% | Season summary |
| Houston | 2017 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 2.7 | 7.7 | 32.3 | 25.8 | -2.7 | +58.3% | Season summary |
| Houston | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | #15 | — | 5.4 | 10.1 | 30.8 | 21.7 | — | — | Partial season |
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Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
Statistical comps
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Open profile →Dino Babers
same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.5
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Best finish Unranked • Volatility 7.5
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same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.2
Avg SRS -2.7 • Peak SRS 7.0 • 9 seasons
Best finish #20 • Volatility 7.6
Open profile →Fred Goldsmith
same offense-first identity • volatility within 1.1
Avg SRS -3.7 • Peak SRS 7.1 • 10 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 5.2
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same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.1
Avg SRS -1.4 • Peak SRS 6.6 • 5 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 5.5
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