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Blanton Collier
1954-1961 • Kentucky
One defining program at Kentucky.
Blanton Collier coached 8 seasons, won 53.1%, and posted an average SRS of 10.0. Best season: 1960 Kentucky. The profile was balanced with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 41-36-3
- Career win rate
- 53.1%
- Average SRS
- 10.0
- Peak SRS
- 14.5
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
- 8
- Career span
- 8 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 93.0
Primary school anchor
Kentucky
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 72.4.
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.
Blanton Collier
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1954Actual season year • SRS range 6.5 to 14.51961
Active comparison point
Blanton Collier • 1960
1960 Kentucky
Best season5-4-1 • SRS 14.5 • SP Overall —
Win %
55.0%
YoY SRS
+0.6
SP Off / Def
— / —
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
1-15
- Games
- 16
- Win rate
- 6.3%
Top 5
0-9
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results25
| 1961 Regular Week 6 | Kentucky | LSU | #7 | L14-24 |
| 1961 Regular Week 3 | Kentucky | Ole Miss | #2 | L6-20 |
| 1960 Regular Week 3 | Kentucky | Ole Miss | #1 | L6-21 |
| 1960 Regular Week 2 | Kentucky | Georgia Tech | #13 | L13-23 |
| 1959 Regular Week 7 | Kentucky | Georgia | #14 | L7-14 |
| 1959 Regular Week 6 | Kentucky | LSU | #1 | L0-9 |
| 1959 Regular Week 5 | Kentucky | Auburn | #11 | L0-33 |
| 1959 Regular Week 3 | Kentucky | Ole Miss | #3 | L0-16 |
| 1959 Regular Week 2 | Kentucky | Georgia Tech | #16 | L12-14 |
| 1958 Regular Week 6 | Kentucky | LSU | #3 | L7-32 |
| 1958 Regular Week 5 | Kentucky | Auburn | #2 | L0-8 |
| 1958 Regular Week 3 | Kentucky | Ole Miss | #6 | L6-27 |
| 1957 Regular Week 11 | Kentucky | Tennessee | #18 | W20-6 |
| 1957 Regular Week 6 | Kentucky | LSU | #10 | L0-21 |
| 1957 Regular Week 5 | Kentucky | Auburn | #9 | L0-6 |
| 1957 Regular Week 3 | Kentucky | Ole Miss | #15 | L0-15 |
| 1957 Regular Week 2 | Kentucky | Georgia Tech | #3 | L0-13 |
| 1956 Regular Week 11 | Kentucky | Tennessee | #2 | L7-20 |
| 1956 Regular Week 3 | Kentucky | Ole Miss | #6 | L7-37 |
| 1956 Regular Week 2 | Kentucky | Georgia Tech | #2 | L6-14 |
| 1955 Regular Week 10 | Kentucky | Tennessee | #17 | W23-0 |
| 1955 Regular Week 4 | Kentucky | Auburn | #14 | T14-14 |
| 1955 Regular Week 2 | Kentucky | Ole Miss | #8 | W21-14 |
| 1954 Regular Week 6 | Kentucky | Georgia Tech | #15 | W13-6 |
| 1954 Regular Week 2 | Kentucky | Ole Miss | #9 | L9-28 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Kentucky
1954-1961 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS 10.0 • Win % 53.1%
- Longest tenure
- Kentucky • 8 seasons
- Best tenure
- Kentucky • 10.0 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Kentucky • 53.1%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Blanton Collier
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
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.
Kentucky
1954-1961 • 41-36-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 10.0Win % 53.1%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.1 during vs 8.0 baseline
-2.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
10.0 during vs 17.6 baseline
-7.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 100.0% baseline
-100.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Kentucky 1960
5-4-1 • SRS 14.5
Biggest Improvement
Kentucky 1959
4-6 • 5.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
Kentucky 1957
3-7 • SRS 6.5
Biggest Drop
Kentucky 1961
5-5 • -6.6 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Kentucky | 1961 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 7.9 | — | — | — | -6.6 | -5.0% |
| Kentucky | 1960 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | 14.5 | — | — | — | +0.6 | +15.0% |
| Kentucky | 1959 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | 13.9 | — | — | — | +5.7 | -15.0% |
| Kentucky | 1958 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | 8.2 | — | — | — | +1.7 | +25.0% |
| Kentucky | 1957 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | #20 | — | 6.5 | — | — | — | -5.1 | -30.0% |
| Kentucky | 1956 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 11.6 | — | — | — | +1.3 | -5.0% |
| Kentucky | 1955 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 65.0% | — | — | 10.3 | — | — | — | +3.0 | -5.0% |
| Kentucky | 1954 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 7.3 | — | — | — | — | — |
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