Top 25
7-19
- Games
- 26
- Win rate
- 26.9%
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Coach Profile
Eli Drinkwitz
2019-2025 • App State, Missouri
2 schools coached, anchored by Missouri.
Eli Drinkwitz's coaching record is 58-30, highlighted by seasons at Missouri from 2019 to 2025.
Eli Drinkwitz coached 7 seasons, won 65.9%, and posted an average SRS of 6.8. Best season: 2023 Missouri. The profile was defense-first with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 58-30
- Career win rate
- 65.9%
- Average SRS
- 6.8
- Peak SRS
- 14.7
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
- 7
- Career span
- 7 years
- Best finish
- #8
- Consistency
- 64.1
Primary school anchor
Missouri
Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 72.8.
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
- 58-30
- Missouri record
- 46-29
- Full-season record
- 38-24
- Partial-season record
- 12-1
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-10
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-6
- Vs Kansas
- 1-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 2-3
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
88 countable games, 65.9% win rate.
6 countable seasons at Missouri.
5 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.
11 games using AP ranking at game time.
6 games using AP ranking at game time.
Border War games in this dataset.
5 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: Dec 28, 2025. At least one season record was backfilled from completed games, so current-season totals may move as more scores are loaded.
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.
Eli Drinkwitz
EliteStrongAverageLean
Eli Drinkwitz: 2020 Missouri
2019Actual season year • SRS range -2.2 to 14.72025
Active comparison point
Eli Drinkwitz • 2023
2023 Missouri
Best seasonBiggest improvement11-2 • SRS 14.7 • SP Overall 19.3
Win %
84.6%
YoY SRS
+10.5
SP Off / Def
36.5 / 18.0
Finish
#8
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
1-10
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 9.1%
Top 5
0-6
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results26
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Missouri
2020-2025 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 6.0 • Win % 61.3%
App State
2019-2019 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS 11.5 • Win % 92.3%
- Longest tenure
- Missouri • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- App State • 11.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- App State • 92.3%
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.
Eli Drinkwitz sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeEli Drinkwitz sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Eli Drinkwitz
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 9.9
- Percentile
- 85th pct
Strong
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.
Missouri
2020-2025 • 46-29
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 6.0Win % 61.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.7 during vs 6.0 baseline
+1.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
6.0 during vs 5.1 baseline
+0.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
9.7 during vs 8.4 baseline
+1.2
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
33.3% during vs 0.0% baseline
+33.3%
App State
2019-2019 • 12-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 11.5Win % 92.3%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Missouri 2023
11-2 • SRS 14.7
Biggest Improvement
Missouri 2023
11-2 • 10.5 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Missouri 2023
11-2 • SP Off 36.5
Best Defensive Season
Missouri 2025
8-5 • SP Def 15.4
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Missouri 2021
6-7 • SRS -2.2
Biggest Drop
Missouri 2020
5-5 • -11.3 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Missouri | 2025 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 10.5 | 14.4 | 31.2 | 15.4 | +1.6 | -15.4% | Completed-game fallback |
| Missouri | 2024 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #11 | #22 | 8.9 | 14.0 | 33.7 | 18.7 | -5.8 | -7.7% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 2023 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | — | #8 | 14.7 | 19.3 | 36.5 | 18.0 | +10.5 | +38.5% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 2022 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | 4.2 | 8.1 | 26.0 | 18.3 | +6.4 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 2021 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | -2.2 | 3.1 | 31.1 | 29.9 | -2.4 | -3.9% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 2020 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 0.2 | -1.0 | 23.4 | 24.6 | -11.3 | -42.3% | Season summary |
| App State | 2019 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 92.3% | — | #19 | 11.5 | 11.3 | 34.3 | 23.2 | — | — | Partial season |
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Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
Statistical comps
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Best finish #4 • Volatility 6.2
Open profile →Shane Beamer
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.1
Avg SRS 5.7 • Peak SRS 15.8 • 5 seasons
Best finish #19 • Volatility 5.4
Open profile →Mike Stoops
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.3
Avg SRS 6.5 • Peak SRS 12.8 • 8 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 4.1
Open profile →Dave Wannstedt
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.2
Avg SRS 6.6 • Peak SRS 13.2 • 6 seasons
Best finish #15 • Volatility 4.0
Open profile →Ralph Friedgen
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.2
Avg SRS 6.6 • Peak SRS 17.7 • 10 seasons
Best finish #11 • Volatility 6.7
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