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- Games
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- Win rate
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Woody Widenhofer
1985-2001 • Missouri, Vanderbilt
2 schools coached, anchored by Vanderbilt.
Woody Widenhofer's coaching record is 27-71-1, highlighted by seasons at Vanderbilt from 1985 to 2001.
Woody Widenhofer coached 9 seasons, won 27.8%, and posted an average SRS of -5.5. Best season: 1987 Missouri. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 27-71-1
- Career win rate
- 27.8%
- Average SRS
- -5.5
- Peak SRS
- 4.3
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
- 9
- Career span
- 17 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 65.2
Primary school anchor
Vanderbilt
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 45.2.
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
- 27-71-1
- Vanderbilt record
- 15-40
- Full-season record
- 27-71-1
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-18
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-11
- Vs Tennessee
- 0-5
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
99 countable games, 27.8% win rate.
5 countable seasons at Vanderbilt.
9 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
18 games using AP ranking at game time.
11 games using AP ranking at game time.
Tennessee-Vanderbilt 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 1, 2001. 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.
Woody Widenhofer
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Woody Widenhofer: 1997 Vanderbilt
1985Actual season year • SRS range -15.5 to 4.32001
Active comparison point
Woody Widenhofer • 1987
1987 Missouri
Best season5-6 • SRS 4.3 • SP Overall 5.4
Win %
45.5%
YoY SRS
+12.5
SP Off / Def
26.2 / 21.5
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
0-18
- Games
- 18
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-11
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results36
| 2001 Regular Week 14 | Vanderbilt | Tennessee | #7 | L0-38 |
| 2001 Regular Week 11 | Vanderbilt | Florida | #4 | L13-71 |
| 2001 Regular Week 8 | Vanderbilt | Georgia | #19 | L14-30 |
| 2000 Regular Week 14 | Vanderbilt | Tennessee | #25 | L26-28 |
| 2000 Regular Week 11 | Vanderbilt | Florida | #6 | L20-43 |
| 2000 Regular Week 9 | Vanderbilt | South Carolina | #18 | L14-30 |
| 2000 Regular Week 8 | Vanderbilt | Georgia | #14 | L19-29 |
| 2000 Regular Week 6 | Vanderbilt | Auburn | #19 | L0-33 |
| 2000 Regular Week 3 | Vanderbilt | Alabama | #13 | L10-28 |
| 1999 Regular Week 14 | Vanderbilt | Tennessee | #6 | L10-38 |
| 1999 Regular Week 11 | Vanderbilt | Florida | #5 | L6-13 |
| 1999 Regular Week 8 | Vanderbilt | Georgia | #14 | L17-27 |
| 1999 Regular Week 6 | Vanderbilt | Mississippi State | #16 | L14-42 |
| 1999 Regular Week 2 | Vanderbilt | Alabama | #20 | L17-28 |
| 1998 Regular Week 14 | Vanderbilt | Tennessee | #1 | L0-41 |
| 1998 Regular Week 11 | Vanderbilt | Florida | #4 | L13-45 |
| 1998 Regular Week 8 | Vanderbilt | Georgia | #11 | L6-31 |
| 1998 Regular Week 3 | Vanderbilt | Alabama | #24 | L7-32 |
| 1997 Regular Week 15 | Vanderbilt | Tennessee | #3 | L10-17 |
| 1997 Regular Week 12 | Vanderbilt | Florida | #13 | L7-20 |
| 1997 Regular Week 9 | Vanderbilt | Georgia | #19 | L13-34 |
| 1997 Regular Week 7 | Vanderbilt | LSU | #13 | L6-7 |
| 1997 Regular Week 4 | Vanderbilt | Alabama | #15 | L0-20 |
| 1988 Regular Week 12 | Missouri | Oklahoma | #8 | L7-16 |
| 1988 Regular Week 10 | Missouri | Nebraska | #5 | L18-26 |
| 1988 Regular Week 9 | Missouri | Oklahoma State | #15 | L21-49 |
| 1988 Regular Week 6 | Missouri | Miami | #1 | L0-55 |
| 1987 Regular Week 12 | Missouri | Oklahoma | #2 | L13-17 |
| 1987 Regular Week 10 | Missouri | Nebraska | #2 | L7-42 |
| 1987 Regular Week 9 | Missouri | Oklahoma State | #17 | L20-24 |
| 1987 Regular Week 6 | Missouri | Syracuse | #17 | L13-24 |
| 1986 Regular Week 11 | Missouri | Oklahoma | #4 | L0-77 |
| 1986 Regular Week 8 | Missouri | Nebraska | #3 | L17-48 |
| 1985 Regular Week 12 | Missouri | Oklahoma State | #10 | L19-21 |
| 1985 Regular Week 11 | Missouri | Oklahoma | #7 | L6-51 |
| 1985 Regular Week 8 | Missouri | Nebraska | #7 | L20-28 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Vanderbilt
1997-2001 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -6.5 • Win % 27.3%
Missouri
1985-1988 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS -4.3 • Win % 28.4%
- Longest tenure
- Vanderbilt • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Missouri • -4.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Missouri • 28.4%
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.
Woody Widenhofer sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeWoody Widenhofer sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Woody Widenhofer
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -6.8
- Percentile
- 36th pct
Lower end
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.
Vanderbilt
1997-2001 • 15-40
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -6.5Win % 27.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.0 during vs 3.4 baseline
-0.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-6.5 during vs -4.6 baseline
-1.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-7.8 during vs -4.1 baseline
-3.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Missouri
1985-1988 • 12-31-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -4.3Win % 28.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.0 during vs 6.2 baseline
-3.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-4.3 during vs 10.3 baseline
-14.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-5.7 during vs 12.2 baseline
-17.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Missouri 1987
5-6 • SRS 4.3
Biggest Improvement
Vanderbilt 1999
5-6 • 15.3 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Vanderbilt 2001
2-9 • SP Off 31.9
Best Defensive Season
Vanderbilt 1997
3-8 • SP Def 19.8
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Vanderbilt 1998
2-9 • SRS -15.5
Biggest Drop
Vanderbilt 1998
2-9 • -13.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Vanderbilt | 2001 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -8.6 | -9.0 | 31.9 | 38.3 | -2.4 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| Vanderbilt | 2000 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -6.2 | -8.1 | 22.0 | 29.5 | -6.0 | -18.2% | Season summary |
| Vanderbilt | 1999 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -0.2 | -1.0 | 27.0 | 28.2 | +15.3 | +27.3% | Season summary |
| Vanderbilt | 1998 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -15.5 | -16.9 | 20.2 | 35.4 | -13.7 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| Vanderbilt | 1997 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -1.8 | -3.8 | 16.2 | 19.8 | +0.7 | -4.5% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1988 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 31.8% | — | — | -2.5 | -1.1 | 30.7 | 32.4 | -6.8 | -13.6% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1987 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 4.3 | 5.4 | 26.2 | 21.5 | +12.5 | +18.2% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1986 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -8.2 | -11.1 | 23.6 | 33.4 | +2.4 | +18.2% | Season summary |
| Missouri | 1985 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 9.1% | — | — | -10.6 | -15.8 | 23.6 | 36.8 | — | — | Season summary |
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