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Biff Lea

College football coaching record, Michigan years & career stats

1900-1900Michigan

One defining program at Michigan.

Biff Lea's coaching record is 7-2-1, highlighted by seasons at Michigan from 1900 to 1900.

Biff Lea coached 1 seasons, won 75.0%, and posted an average SRS of -2.6. Best season: 1900 Michigan. The profile was balanced with limited volatility context. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
7-2-1
Career win rate
75.0%
Average SRS
-2.6
Peak SRS
-2.6

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
1
Career span
1 years
Best finish
Consistency

Primary school anchor

Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 29.1.

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.

Compare Biff Lea
Overall record
7-2-1

10 countable games, 75.0% win rate.

Michigan record
7-2-1

1 countable seasons at Michigan.

Full-season record
7-2-1

1 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.

Vs AP Top 25
0-0

0 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
0-0

0 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
0-0

0 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Ohio State
0-0-1

The Game games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
0-0

0 scored postseason games in this dataset.

CFP record
0-0

0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.

National titles
0

Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.

Career Résumé

Biff Lea 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
1

100% of countable seasons

10-win seasons
0

Seasons with at least 10 wins

Undefeated seasons
0

No losses or ties

Top-10 finishes
0

Tracked final rankings

National titles
0

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 29, 1900. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.

Coach FAQ

Quick answers about Biff Lea

Who is Biff Lea?

Biff Lea is a college football coach in the CFBTrack coaching database with primary school context at Michigan, with a 7-2-1 career record from 1900 across 1 countable season.

What is Biff Lea's college football coaching record?

Biff Lea's college football coaching record is 7-2-1 across 1 countable season, anchored by Michigan.

Which schools did Biff Lea coach?

Biff Lea coached at Michigan in the seasons covered by this profile.

How many winning seasons did Biff Lea have?

Biff Lea had 1 winning season across 1 countable season row in this profile.

How many 10-win seasons did Biff Lea have?

Biff Lea had 0 seasons with at least 10 wins in the countable season data.

How many Top-10 finishes did Biff Lea have?

Biff Lea recorded 0 Top-10 final finishes in the tracked rankings.

What years did Biff Lea coach at Michigan?

Biff Lea's Michigan head coach years were 1900, covering 1 countable season with a 7-2-1 record.

How did Biff Lea do against ranked opponents?

Biff Lea's AP Top 25 time-of-game record is 0-0.

How does CFBTrack count Biff Lea'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.

Biff Lea 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.

Biff Lea
EliteStrongAverageLean
1899Actual season year • SRS range -3.6 to -1.61901

Active comparison point

Biff Lea1900

Selected

1900 Michigan

Best seasonWorst season

7-2-1 • SRS -2.6 • SP Overall

Win %

75.0%

YoY SRS

SP Off / Def

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Finish

Unranked

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.

Poll source
Ranking timing
No ranked opponents found for this poll and timing combination.

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
Michigan

1900-19001 seasons

Avg SRS -2.6 • Win % 75.0%

Longest tenure
Michigan • 1 seasons
Best tenure
Michigan • -2.6 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Michigan • 75.0%

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

Not enough data to compare.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Biff Lea

Insufficient sample

Raw avg SP Overall
Percentile

Insufficient sample

Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.

Biff Lea coaching record by school

See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.

Michigan

1900-19007-2-1

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS -2.6Win % 75.0%

Avg wins

Higher is better

7.0 during vs 8.2 baseline

-1.2

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-2.6 during vs 1.0 baseline

-3.6

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

during vs baseline

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Michigan 1900

7-2-1SRS -2.6

Biggest Improvement

Unavailable

Best Offensive Season

Unavailable

Best Defensive Season

Unavailable

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Michigan 1900

7-2-1SRS -2.6

Biggest Drop

Unavailable

Biff Lea 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.

Biff Lea season-by-season college football coaching record
MichiganBest19001072175.0%-2.6Season summary

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