Top 25
1-23
- Games
- 24
- Win rate
- 4.2%
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Coach Profile
Cal Stoll
1969-1978 • Minnesota, Wake Forest
2 schools coached, anchored by Minnesota.
Cal Stoll's coaching record is 54-56, highlighted by seasons at Minnesota from 1969 to 1978.
Cal Stoll coached 10 seasons, won 49.1%, and posted an average SRS of 0.2. Best season: 1973 Minnesota. The profile was defense-first with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 54-56
- Career win rate
- 49.1%
- Average SRS
- 0.2
- Peak SRS
- 9.9
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
- 10
- Career span
- 10 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 45.4
Primary school anchor
Minnesota
Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 61.1.
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.
- Overall record
- 54-56
- Minnesota record
- 39-39
- Full-season record
- 54-56
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-18
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-11
- Vs Wisconsin
- 4-3
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
110 countable games, 49.1% win rate.
7 countable seasons at Minnesota.
10 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
19 games using AP ranking at game time.
11 games using AP ranking at game time.
Minnesota-Wisconsin games in this dataset.
1 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 25, 1978. 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.
Cal Stoll
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Cal Stoll: 1972 Minnesota
1969Actual season year • SRS range -14.7 to 9.91978
Active comparison point
Cal Stoll • 1973
1973 Minnesota
Best season7-4 • SRS 9.9 • SP Overall 5.6
Win %
63.6%
YoY SRS
+9.9
SP Off / Def
32.6 / 28.9
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
1-18
- Games
- 19
- Win rate
- 5.3%
Top 5
0-11
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results24
| 1978 Regular Week 11 | Minnesota | Michigan State | #16 | L9-33 |
| 1978 Regular Week 9 | Minnesota | Michigan | #8 | L10-42 |
| 1978 Regular Week 5 | Minnesota | UCLA | #16 | L3-17 |
| 1978 Regular Week 4 | Minnesota | Ohio State | #13 | L10-27 |
| 1977 Regular Week 8 | Minnesota | Michigan | #6 | W16-0 |
| 1977 Regular Week 3 | Minnesota | Ohio State | #4 | L7-38 |
| 1976 Regular Week 11 | Minnesota | Ohio State | #8 | L3-9 |
| 1976 Regular Week 9 | Minnesota | Michigan | #1 | L0-45 |
| 1975 Regular Week 11 | Minnesota | Ohio State | #1 | L6-38 |
| 1975 Regular Week 9 | Minnesota | Michigan | #7 | L21-28 |
| 1975 Regular Week 7 | Minnesota | Michigan State | #17 | L15-38 |
| 1974 Regular Week 8 | Minnesota | Michigan | #3 | L0-49 |
| 1974 Regular Week 5 | Minnesota | Nebraska | #6 | L0-54 |
| 1974 Regular Week 2 | Minnesota | Ohio State | #4 | L19-34 |
| 1973 Regular Week 9 | Minnesota | Michigan | #4 | L7-34 |
| 1973 Regular Week 6 | Minnesota | Nebraska | #2 | L7-48 |
| 1973 Regular Week 3 | Minnesota | Ohio State | #3 | L7-56 |
| 1972 Regular Week 9 | Minnesota | Ohio State | #5 | L19-27 |
| 1972 Regular Week 8 | Minnesota | Michigan | #5 | L0-42 |
| 1972 Regular Week 4 | Minnesota | Nebraska | #7 | L0-49 |
| 1972 Regular Week 3 | Minnesota | Colorado | #3 | L6-38 |
| 1970 Regular Week 10 | Wake Forest | Tennessee | #10 | L7-41 |
| 1970 Regular Week 3 | Wake Forest | Nebraska | #8 | L12-36 |
| 1969 Regular Week 2 | Wake Forest | Auburn | #17 | L0-57 |
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
1972-1978 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS 2.0 • Win % 50.0%
Wake Forest
1969-1971 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -4.1 • Win % 46.9%
- Longest tenure
- Minnesota • 7 seasons
- Best tenure
- Minnesota • 2.0 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Minnesota • 50.0%
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.
Cal Stoll sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeCal Stoll sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Cal Stoll
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -2.1
- Percentile
- 50th pct
Mixed
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
1972-1978 • 39-39
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 2.0Win % 50.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.6 during vs 5.0 baseline
+0.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
2.0 during vs 6.5 baseline
-4.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-3.4 during vs -1.2 baseline
-2.2
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Wake Forest
1969-1971 • 15-17
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -4.1Win % 46.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.0 during vs 3.4 baseline
+1.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-4.1 during vs -1.0 baseline
-3.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
2.6 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
Minnesota 1973
7-4 • SRS 9.9
Biggest Improvement
Wake Forest 1970
6-5 • 16.3 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Minnesota 1973
7-4 • SP Off 32.6
Best Defensive Season
Minnesota 1977
7-5 • SP Def 14.4
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Wake Forest 1969
3-7 • SRS -14.7
Biggest Drop
Minnesota 1974
4-7 • -18.0 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Minnesota | 1978 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -3.7 | -14.6 | 19.8 | 33.1 | -9.6 | -12.9% | Season summary |
| Minnesota | 1977 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 5.9 | 5.4 | 19.0 | 14.4 | +0.6 | +3.8% | Season summary |
| Minnesota | 1976 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | 5.3 | 1.4 | 23.2 | 22.1 | +0.3 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Minnesota | 1975 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | 5.0 | -1.1 | 23.2 | 24.1 | +13.1 | +18.2% | Season summary |
| Minnesota | 1974 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -8.1 | -17.5 | 17.0 | 33.9 | -18.0 | -27.3% | Season summary |
| Minnesota | 1973 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 9.9 | 5.6 | 32.6 | 28.9 | +9.9 | +27.3% | Season summary |
| Minnesota | 1972 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | 0.0 | -3.2 | 25.7 | 29.0 | -0.7 | -18.2% | Season summary |
| Wake Forest | 1971 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | 0.7 | -2.1 | 20.4 | 22.7 | -0.9 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Wake Forest | 1970 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | 1.6 | 7.3 | 26.8 | 20.3 | +16.3 | +24.6% | Season summary |
| Wake Forest | 1969 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -14.7 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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