Top 25
0-8-1
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 5.6%
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Francis Schmidt
1922-1942 • Arkansas, Idaho, Ohio State, TCU
4 schools coached, anchored by Ohio State.
Francis Schmidt's coaching record is 135-53-9, highlighted by seasons at Ohio State from 1922 to 1942.
Francis Schmidt coached 21 seasons, won 70.8%, and posted an average SRS of 8.2. Best season: 1929 TCU. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 4 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 135-53-9
- Career win rate
- 70.8%
- Average SRS
- 8.2
- Peak SRS
- 25.1
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
- #13
- Consistency
- 6.4
Primary school anchor
Ohio State
Balanced profile with 4 program stops and a peak score of 92.7.
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
- 135-53-9
- Arkansas record
- 42-20-3
- Full-season record
- 135-53-9
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-6
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-4
- Vs Texas A&M
- 1-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
197 countable games, 70.8% win rate.
7 countable seasons at Arkansas.
21 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
6 games using AP ranking at game time.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
Arkansas-Texas A&M games in this dataset.
0 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 5, 1942. 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.
Francis Schmidt
EliteStrongAverageLean
Francis Schmidt: 1929 TCUFrancis Schmidt: 1934 Ohio StateFrancis Schmidt: 1941 Idaho
1922Actual season year • SRS range -18.8 to 25.11942
Active comparison point
Francis Schmidt • 1929
1929 TCU
Best seasonBiggest improvementNew stop: TCU9-0-1 • SRS 25.1 • SP Overall —
Win %
95.0%
YoY SRS
+21.8
SP Off / Def
— / —
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
0-6
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results9
| 1941 Regular Week 7 | Idaho | Oregon State | #17 | L0-33 |
| 1940 Regular Week 7 | Ohio State | Cornell | #13 | L7-21 |
| 1940 Regular Week 6 | Ohio State | Minnesota | #1 | L7-13 |
| 1940 Regular Week 5 | Ohio State | Northwestern | #10 | L3-6 |
| 1939 Regular Week 7 | Ohio State | Cornell | #3 | L14-23 |
| 1938 Regular Week 5 | Ohio State | Northwestern | #16 | T0-0 |
| 1938 Regular Week 4 | Ohio State | USC | #9 | L7-14 |
| 1936 Regular Week 5 | Ohio State | Northwestern | #1 | L13-14 |
| 1936 Regular Week 4 | Ohio State | Pittsburgh | #5 | L0-6 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Idaho
1941-1942 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -15.7 • Win % 36.8%
Ohio State
1934-1940 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS 16.2 • Win % 70.5%
TCU
1929-1933 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 14.9 • Win % 86.8%
Arkansas
1922-1928 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS 2.3 • Win % 66.9%
- Longest tenure
- Ohio State • 7 seasons
- Best tenure
- Ohio State • 16.2 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- TCU • 86.8%
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.
Francis Schmidt
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.
Idaho
1941-1942 • 7-12
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -15.7Win % 36.8%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Ohio State
1934-1940 • 39-16-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 16.2Win % 70.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.6 during vs 5.2 baseline
+0.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
16.2 during vs 12.7 baseline
+3.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
28.6% during vs 100.0% baseline
-71.4%
TCU
1929-1933 • 47-5-5
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 14.9Win % 86.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
9.4 during vs 5.8 baseline
+3.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
14.9 during vs 2.3 baseline
+12.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Arkansas
1922-1928 • 42-20-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 2.3Win % 66.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.0 during vs 3.8 baseline
+2.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
2.3 during vs -10.3 baseline
+12.6
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
TCU 1929
9-0-1 • SRS 25.1
Biggest Improvement
TCU 1929
9-0-1 • 21.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Idaho 1942
3-7 • SRS -18.8
Biggest Drop
Idaho 1941
4-5 • -27.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Idaho | 1942 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -18.8 | — | — | — | -6.3 | -14.4% | Season summary |
| Idaho | 1941 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | -12.5 | — | — | — | -27.1 | -5.6% | Season summary |
| Ohio State | 1940 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 14.6 | — | — | — | +0.4 | -25.0% | Season summary |
| Ohio State | 1939 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75.0% | — | #15 | 14.2 | — | — | — | +6.1 | +18.8% | Season summary |
| Ohio State | 1938 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 56.3% | — | — | 8.1 | — | — | — | -6.4 | -18.8% | Season summary |
| Ohio State | 1937 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75.0% | — | #13 | 14.5 | — | — | — | -2.4 | +12.5% | Season summary |
| Ohio State | 1936 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 62.5% | — | — | 16.9 | — | — | — | -3.7 | -25.0% | Season summary |
| Ohio State | 1935 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 87.5% | — | — | 20.6 | — | — | — | -3.6 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Ohio State | 1934 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 87.5% | — | — | 24.2 | — | — | — | +11.3 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1933 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 87.5% | — | — | 12.9 | — | — | — | -5.4 | -8.0% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1932 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 95.5% | — | — | 18.3 | — | — | — | +13.3 | +16.3% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1931 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 79.2% | — | — | 5.0 | — | — | — | -8.0 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1930 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 79.2% | — | — | 13.0 | — | — | — | -12.1 | -15.8% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1929 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 95.0% | — | — | 25.1 | — | — | — | +21.8 | +17.2% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 1928 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | 3.3 | — | — | — | -9.5 | -11.1% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 1927 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | — | 12.8 | — | — | — | +5.8 | +38.9% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 1926 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 7.0 | — | — | — | +13.1 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 1925 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | -6.1 | — | — | — | -8.1 | -25.0% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 1924 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 75.0% | — | — | 2.0 | — | — | — | -3.5 | +2.8% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 1923 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 72.2% | — | — | 5.5 | — | — | — | +13.7 | +16.7% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 1922 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | -8.2 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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