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- Games
- 30
- Win rate
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Coach Profile
Don Faurot
1935-1956 • Iowa Pre-Flight, Missouri
2 schools coached, anchored by Missouri.
Don Faurot's coaching record is 109-81-10, highlighted by seasons at Missouri from 1935 to 1956.
Don Faurot coached 20 seasons, won 57.0%, and posted an average SRS of 5.8. Best season: 1943 Iowa Pre-Flight. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 109-81-10
- Career win rate
- 57.0%
- Average SRS
- 5.8
- Peak SRS
- 26.7
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
- 20
- Career span
- 22 years
- Best finish
- #2
- Consistency
- 35.6
Primary school anchor
Missouri
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 94.2.
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
- 109-81-10
- Missouri record
- 52-56-4
- Full-season record
- 109-81-10
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-17
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-10
- Vs Kansas
- 13-4-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-4
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
200 countable games, 57.0% win rate.
11 countable seasons at Missouri.
20 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
18 games using AP ranking at game time.
10 games using AP ranking at game time.
Border War games in this dataset.
4 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 1, 1956. 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.
Don Faurot
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Don Faurot: 1943 Iowa Pre-FlightDon Faurot: 1946 Missouri
1935Actual season year • SRS range -7.1 to 26.71956
Active comparison point
Don Faurot • 1943
1943 Iowa Pre-Flight
Best seasonBiggest improvementNew stop: Iowa Pre-Flight9-1 • SRS 26.7 • SP Overall —
Win %
90.0%
YoY SRS
+17.7
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#2
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
1-17
- Games
- 18
- Win rate
- 5.6%
Top 5
0-10
- Games
- 10
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results30
| 1956 Regular Week 10 | Missouri | Oklahoma | #1 | L14-67 |
| 1956 Regular Week 4 | Missouri | SMU | #19 | L27-33 |
| 1955 Regular Week 8 | Missouri | Oklahoma | #2 | L0-20 |
| 1955 Regular Week 2 | Missouri | Michigan | #4 | L7-42 |
| 1954 Regular Week 11 | Missouri | Maryland | #10 | L13-74 |
| 1954 Regular Week 9 | Missouri | Oklahoma | #3 | L13-34 |
| 1953 Regular Week 8 | Missouri | Oklahoma | #6 | L7-14 |
| 1952 Regular Week 10 | Missouri | Oklahoma | #4 | L7-47 |
| 1952 Regular Week 3 | Missouri | California | #3 | L14-28 |
| 1952 Regular Week 2 | Missouri | Maryland | #3 | L10-13 |
| 1951 Regular Week 9 | Missouri | Oklahoma | #12 | L20-34 |
| 1951 Regular Week 8 | Missouri | Maryland | #5 | L0-35 |
| 1951 Regular Week 4 | Missouri | SMU | #15 | L0-34 |
| 1950 Regular Week 8 | Missouri | Nebraska | #18 | L34-40 |
| 1950 Regular Week 4 | Missouri | SMU | #3 | L0-21 |
| 1950 Regular Week 3 | Missouri | Clemson | #13 | L0-34 |
| 1949 Regular Week 4 | Missouri | SMU | #11 | L27-28 |
| 1949 Postseason Week 1 | Missouri | Maryland | #14 | L7-20 |
| 1948 Regular Week 5 | Missouri | SMU | #8 | W20-14 |
| 1948 Postseason Week 1 | Missouri | Clemson | #11 | L23-24 |
| 1947 Regular Week 4 | Missouri | SMU | #8 | L19-35 |
| 1946 Regular Week 2 | Missouri | Texas | #3 | L0-42 |
| 1942 Regular Week 5 | Missouri | Wisconsin | #7 | L9-17 |
| 1941 Regular Week 2 | Missouri | Ohio State | #11 | L7-12 |
| 1941 Postseason Week 1 | Missouri | Fordham | #6 | L0-2 |
| 1940 Regular Week 7 | Missouri | Nebraska | #8 | L7-20 |
| 1939 Regular Week 8 | Missouri | Nebraska | #17 | W27-13 |
| 1939 Regular Week 4 | Missouri | Ohio State | #9 | L0-19 |
| 1939 Postseason Week 1 | Missouri | Georgia Tech | #16 | L7-21 |
| 1937 Regular Week 6 | Missouri | Nebraska | #11 | L0-7 |
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
1946-1956 • 11 seasons
Avg SRS 3.9 • Win % 48.2%
Iowa Pre-Flight
1943-1943 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS 26.7 • Win % 90.0%
Missouri
1935-1942 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS 5.7 • Win % 65.4%
- Longest tenure
- Missouri • 11 seasons
- Best tenure
- Iowa Pre-Flight • 26.7 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Iowa Pre-Flight • 90.0%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Don Faurot
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
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
1946-1956 • 52-56-4
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 3.9Win % 48.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.7 during vs 5.6 baseline
-0.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
3.9 during vs 5.6 baseline
-1.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
9.1% during vs 20.0% baseline
-10.9%
Iowa Pre-Flight
1943-1943 • 9-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 26.7Win % 90.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Missouri
1935-1942 • 48-24-6
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 5.7Win % 65.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.0 during vs 1.2 baseline
+4.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
5.7 during vs -11.4 baseline
+17.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
25.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+25.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Iowa Pre-Flight 1943
9-1 • SRS 26.7
Biggest Improvement
Iowa Pre-Flight 1943
9-1 • 17.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Missouri 1951
2-8 • SRS -7.1
Biggest Drop
Missouri 1946
5-4-1 • -28.2 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Missouri | 1956 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | — | — | 4.4 | — | — | — | +9.2 | +35.0% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1955 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 10.0% | — | — | -4.8 | — | — | — | -7.7 | -35.0% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1954 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | — | — | 2.9 | — | — | — | -3.9 | -15.0% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1953 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 6.8 | — | — | — | -2.1 | +10.0% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1952 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 8.9 | — | — | — | +16.0 | +30.0% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1951 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 20.0% | — | — | -7.1 | — | — | — | -9.0 | -25.0% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1950 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | #17 | — | 1.9 | — | — | — | -8.3 | -18.6% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1949 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | #20 | 10.2 | — | — | — | -0.5 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1948 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | — | 10.7 | — | — | — | +0.4 | +12.7% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1947 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 10.3 | — | — | — | +11.8 | +5.0% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1946 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | -1.5 | — | — | — | -28.2 | -35.0% | Season summary |
| Iowa Pre-Flight | 1943 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 90.0% | — | #2 | 26.7 | — | — | — | +17.7 | +19.2% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1942 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 70.8% | — | — | 9.0 | — | — | — | -7.3 | -9.2% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1941 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | #7 | 16.3 | — | — | — | +10.4 | +13.3% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1940 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 5.9 | — | — | — | -4.9 | -13.3% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1939 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | #6 | 10.8 | — | — | — | +9.1 | +13.3% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1938 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 1.7 | — | — | — | +5.9 | +31.7% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1937 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 35.0% | — | — | -4.2 | — | — | — | -10.8 | -37.2% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1936 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 72.2% | — | — | 6.6 | — | — | — | +7.1 | +22.2% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1935 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 50.0% | — | — | -0.5 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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