Top 25
16-37
- Games
- 53
- Win rate
- 30.2%
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Coach Profile
Houston Nutt
1997-2011 • Arkansas, Boise State, Ole Miss
3 schools coached, anchored by Arkansas.
Houston Nutt's coaching record is 103-81, highlighted by seasons at Arkansas from 1997 to 2011.
Houston Nutt coached 15 seasons, won 56.0%, and posted an average SRS of 7.2. Best season: 1998 Arkansas. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 103-81
- Career win rate
- 56.0%
- Average SRS
- 7.2
- 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
- 15
- Career span
- 15 years
- Best finish
- #14
- Consistency
- 29.4
Primary school anchor
Arkansas
Offense-First profile with 3 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
- 103-81
- Arkansas record
- 75-48
- Full-season record
- 95-77
- Partial-season record
- 8-4
- Vs AP Top 10
- 6-23
- Vs AP Top 5
- 3-14
- Postseason / bowl record
- 4-5
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
184 countable games, 56.0% win rate.
10 countable seasons at Arkansas.
14 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.
29 games using AP ranking at game time.
17 games using AP ranking at game time.
9 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 27, 2011. 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.
Houston Nutt
EliteStrongAverageLean
Houston Nutt: 1998 ArkansasHouston Nutt: 2008 Ole Miss
1997Actual season year • SRS range -10.8 to 15.32011
Active comparison point
Houston Nutt • 1998
1998 Arkansas
Best seasonBiggest improvementNew stop: Arkansas9-3 • SRS 15.3 • SP Overall 19.2
Win %
75.0%
YoY SRS
+26.1
SP Off / Def
39.4 / 22.8
Finish
#16
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
6-23
- Games
- 29
- Win rate
- 20.7%
Top 5
3-14
- Games
- 17
- Win rate
- 17.6%
View ranked game results53
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Ole Miss
2008-2011 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 5.4 • Win % 48.0%
Arkansas
1998-2007 • 10 seasons
Avg SRS 9.7 • Win % 61.0%
Boise State
1997-1997 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -10.8 • Win % 36.4%
- Longest tenure
- Arkansas • 10 seasons
- Best tenure
- Arkansas • 9.7 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Arkansas • 61.0%
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.
Houston Nutt sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeHouston Nutt sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Houston Nutt
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 10.9
- Percentile
- 87th 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.
Ole Miss
2008-2011 • 24-26
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 5.4Win % 48.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.0 during vs 4.8 baseline
+1.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
5.4 during vs -1.0 baseline
+6.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
6.7 during vs 0.6 baseline
+6.2
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
+30.0%
Arkansas
1998-2007 • 75-48
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 9.7Win % 61.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.4 during vs 5.0 baseline
+2.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
9.5 during vs 0.5 baseline
+9.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
14.7 during vs 3.3 baseline
+11.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
33.3% during vs 0.0% baseline
+33.3%
Boise State
1997-1997 • 4-7
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -10.8Win % 36.4%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Arkansas 1998
9-3 • SRS 15.3
Biggest Improvement
Arkansas 1998
9-3 • 26.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Arkansas 2003
9-4 • SP Off 43.5
Best Defensive Season
Arkansas 2006
10-4 • SP Def 13.1
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Boise State 1997
4-7 • SRS -10.8
Biggest Drop
Ole Miss 2010
4-8 • -14.8 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Ole Miss | 2011 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -7.6 | -9.7 | 19.9 | 31.4 | -7.2 | -16.7% | Season summary |
| Ole Miss | 2010 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -0.4 | 2.8 | 31.5 | 29.5 | -14.8 | -35.9% | Season summary |
| Ole Miss | 2009 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #8 | #20 | 14.4 | 16.7 | 31.8 | 15.6 | -0.7 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Ole Miss | 2008 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | #14 | 15.1 | 17.1 | 35.1 | 19.6 | +3.3 | +2.6% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 2007 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | #21 | — | 11.8 | 18.0 | 36.8 | 19.0 | -2.7 | -4.8% | Partial season |
| Arkansas | 2006 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 71.4% | — | #15 | 14.5 | 20.6 | 34.4 | 13.1 | +9.6 | +35.1% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 2005 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | 4.9 | 10.6 | 29.0 | 18.4 | -4.7 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 2004 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 9.6 | 15.4 | 39.7 | 26.7 | -3.7 | -23.8% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 2003 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | — | 13.3 | 21.0 | 43.5 | 25.5 | +2.9 | +5.0% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 2002 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 64.3% | — | — | 10.4 | 15.2 | 34.7 | 21.0 | +2.3 | +5.9% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 2001 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 8.1 | 14.0 | 34.6 | 21.8 | +9.4 | +8.3% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 2000 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -1.3 | 5.1 | 31.1 | 27.7 | -12.0 | -16.7% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 1999 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | #22 | #17 | 10.7 | 11.4 | 33.6 | 23.7 | -4.6 | -8.3% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 1998 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | — | #16 | 15.3 | 19.2 | 39.4 | 22.8 | +26.1 | +38.6% | Season summary |
| Boise State | 1997 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -10.8 | -13.3 | 30.3 | 39.9 | — | — | Season summary |
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