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Glen Mason

1986-2006 • Kansas, Kent State, Minnesota

3 schools coached, anchored by Minnesota.

Glen Mason's coaching record is 123-121-1, highlighted by seasons at Minnesota from 1986 to 2006.

Glen Mason coached 21 seasons, won 50.4%, and posted an average SRS of 1.4. Best season: 1999 Minnesota. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.

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Career record
123-121-1
Career win rate
50.4%
Average SRS
1.4
Peak SRS
14.9

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
21
Career span
21 years
Best finish
#9
Consistency
11.0

Primary school anchor

Minnesota

Offense-First profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 73.3.

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 Glen Mason
Overall record
123-121-1

245 countable games, 50.4% win rate.

Minnesota record
64-57

10 countable seasons at Minnesota.

Full-season record
123-121-1

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

Vs AP Top 25
8-60

68 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
3-25

28 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
2-10

12 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Wisconsin
2-8

Minnesota-Wisconsin games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
5-4

9 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.

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: Dec 30, 2006. 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.

Glen Mason
EliteStrongAverageLean
Glen Mason: 1988 KansasGlen Mason: 1997 Minnesota
1986Actual season year • SRS range -21.6 to 14.92006

Active comparison point

Glen Mason • 1999

Selected

1999 Minnesota

Best season

8-4 • SRS 14.9 • SP Overall 16.8

Win %

66.7%

YoY SRS

+11.6

SP Off / Def

35.2 / 19.8

Finish

#18

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.

Poll source
Ranking timing

Top 25

8-60

Games
68
Win rate
11.8%

Top 10

3-25

Games
28
Win rate
10.7%

Top 5

2-10

Games
12
Win rate
16.7%
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2006 Regular Week 9MinnesotaOhio State#1L0-44
2006 Regular Week 7MinnesotaWisconsin#25L12-48
2006 Regular Week 5MinnesotaMichigan#6L14-28
2006 Regular Week 2MinnesotaCalifornia#22L17-42
2005 Regular Week 9MinnesotaOhio State#12L31-45
2005 Regular Week 7MinnesotaWisconsin#23L34-38
2005 Regular Week 6MinnesotaMichigan#21W23-20
2005 Regular Week 4MinnesotaPurdue#11W42-35
2004 Regular Week 12MinnesotaIowa#19L27-29
2004 Regular Week 11MinnesotaWisconsin#5L14-38
2004 Regular Week 7MinnesotaMichigan#14L24-27
2003 Regular Week 13MinnesotaIowa#20L22-40
2003 Regular Week 9MinnesotaMichigan State#15L38-44
2003 Regular Week 8MinnesotaMichigan#20L35-38
2002 Regular Week 13MinnesotaIowa#6L21-45
2002 Regular Week 12MinnesotaMichigan#13L24-41
2002 Regular Week 11MinnesotaOhio State#6L3-34
2002 Postseason Week 1MinnesotaArkansas#25W29-14
2001 Regular Week 12MinnesotaMichigan#12L10-31
2001 Regular Week 6MinnesotaPurdue#24L28-35
2000 Regular Week 10MinnesotaNorthwestern#23L35-41
2000 Regular Week 8MinnesotaOhio State#6W29-17
2000 Regular Week 6MinnesotaIllinois#24W44-10
2000 Regular Week 5MinnesotaPurdue#21L24-38
1999 Regular Week 11MinnesotaPenn State#2W24-23
1999 Regular Week 10MinnesotaPurdue#18L28-33
1999 Regular Week 9MinnesotaOhio State#22L17-20
1999 Regular Week 7MinnesotaWisconsin#20L17-20
1999 Postseason Week 1MinnesotaOregon#19L20-24
1998 Regular Week 11MinnesotaWisconsin#8L7-26
1998 Regular Week 10MinnesotaMichigan#22L10-15
1998 Regular Week 8MinnesotaOhio State#1L15-45
1998 Regular Week 7MinnesotaPenn State#12L17-27
1997 Regular Week 12MinnesotaOhio State#7L3-31
1997 Regular Week 11MinnesotaMichigan#4L3-24
1997 Regular Week 9MinnesotaPenn State#1L15-16
1997 Regular Week 7MinnesotaMichigan State#12L10-31
1996 Regular Week 12KansasKansas State#13L12-38
1996 Regular Week 10KansasNebraska#5L7-63
1996 Regular Week 9KansasColorado#9L7-20
1995 Regular Week 12KansasNebraska#1L3-41
1995 Regular Week 10KansasKansas State#14L7-41
1995 Regular Week 9KansasOklahoma#15W38-17
1995 Regular Week 7KansasColorado#4W40-24
1994 Regular Week 12KansasColorado#7L26-51
1994 Regular Week 11KansasNebraska#1L17-45
1994 Regular Week 7KansasKansas State#19L13-21
1993 Regular Week 12KansasColorado#21L14-38
1993 Regular Week 11KansasNebraska#6L20-21
1993 Regular Week 9KansasOklahoma#17L23-38
1992 Regular Week 12KansasColorado#13L18-25
1992 Regular Week 11KansasNebraska#7L7-49
1991 Regular Week 12KansasColorado#16L24-30
1991 Regular Week 11KansasNebraska#11L23-59
1991 Regular Week 9KansasOklahoma#21L3-41
1990 Regular Week 12KansasNebraska#11L9-41
1990 Regular Week 9KansasColorado#10L10-41
1990 Regular Week 8KansasMiami#2L0-34
1990 Regular Week 6KansasOklahoma#7L17-31
1990 Regular Week 2KansasVirginia#14L10-59
1989 Regular Week 11KansasNebraska#6L14-51
1989 Regular Week 8KansasColorado#3L17-49
1989 Regular Week 5KansasOklahoma#16L6-45
1988 Regular Week 12KansasOklahoma State#14L24-63
1988 Regular Week 10KansasOklahoma#8L14-63
1988 Regular Week 7KansasNebraska#9L10-63
1988 Regular Week 4KansasAuburn#6L7-56
1987 Regular Week 13Kent StatePittsburgh#20L5-28

Tenure map

Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Minnesota

1997-2006 • 10 seasons

Avg SRS 6.1 • Win % 52.9%

Kansas

1988-1996 • 9 seasons

Avg SRS -0.2 • Win % 46.6%

Kent State

1986-1987 • 2 seasons

Avg SRS -14.6 • Win % 54.5%

Longest tenure
Minnesota • 10 seasons
Best tenure
Minnesota • 6.1 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Kent State • 54.5%

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.

Glen Mason sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Glen Mason sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Glen Mason

Above average

Raw avg SP Overall
2.6
Percentile
66th 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.

Minnesota

1997-2006 • 64-57

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

Avg SRS 6.1Win % 52.9%

Avg wins

Higher is better

6.4 during vs 3.2 baseline

+3.2

Avg SRS

Higher is better

6.1 during vs -1.7 baseline

+7.8

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

6.8 during vs -2.5 baseline

+9.3

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

20.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+20.0%

Kansas

1988-1996 • 47-54-1

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

Avg SRS -0.2Win % 46.6%

Avg wins

Higher is better

5.2 during vs 3.8 baseline

+1.4

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-0.2 during vs -7.6 baseline

+7.4

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

0.8 during vs -7.0 baseline

+7.8

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

22.2% during vs 0.0% baseline

+22.2%

Kent State

1986-1987 • 12-10

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

Avg SRS -14.6Win % 54.5%

Avg wins

Higher is better

6.0 during vs 2.4 baseline

+3.6

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-14.6 during vs -18.2 baseline

+3.6

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-9.7 during vs -12.1 baseline

+2.4

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Minnesota 1999

8-4 • SRS 14.9

Biggest Improvement

Kansas 1991

6-5 • 13.2 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Minnesota 2003

10-3 • SP Off 42.1

Best Defensive Season

Minnesota 1999

8-4 • SP Def 19.8

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Kansas 1988

1-10 • SRS -21.6

Biggest Drop

Kansas 1988

1-10 • -13.2 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.

Minnesota20061367046.2%——4.53.831.927.5-9.7-12.2%Season summary
Minnesota20051275058.3%——14.215.940.724.7+5.50.0%Season summary
Minnesota20041275058.3%#25—8.710.736.227.8-5.1-18.6%Season summary
Minnesota200313103076.9%—#2013.812.742.132.1+10.5+15.4%Season summary
Minnesota20021385061.5%——3.37.335.931.1+4.1+25.2%Season summary
Minnesota20011147036.4%——-0.80.332.333.0-5.2-13.6%Season summary
Minnesota20001266050.0%——4.41.435.734.9-10.5-16.7%Season summary
Minnesota19991284066.7%—#1814.916.835.219.8+11.6+21.2%Season summary
Minnesota19981156045.5%——3.36.229.024.0+8.8+20.4%Season summary
Minnesota19971239025.0%——-5.5-7.625.932.7-8.6-11.4%Season summary
Kansas19961147036.4%#24—3.15.638.834.6-6.4-47.0%Season summary
Kansas199512102083.3%—#99.514.537.224.5+6.9+28.8%Season summary
Kansas19941165054.5%——2.62.630.528.9-2.5+12.9%Season summary
Kansas19931257041.7%——5.17.527.821.5-4.6-25.0%Season summary
Kansas19921284066.7%—#229.711.337.228.0+0.5+12.1%Season summary
Kansas19911165054.5%——9.211.335.726.4+13.2+22.7%Season summary
Kansas19901137131.8%——-4.0-3.230.533.9+11.7-4.5%Season summary
Kansas19891147036.4%——-15.7-17.327.541.2+5.9+27.3%Season summary
Kansas19881111009.1%——-21.6-25.027.245.3-13.2-54.5%Season summary
Kent State19871174063.6%——-8.4-3.822.726.6+12.3+18.2%Season summary
Kent State19861156045.5%——-20.7-15.619.833.9——Season summary

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