Top 25
7-6
- Games
- 13
- Win rate
- 53.8%
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Frank Kush
1958-1979 • Arizona State
One defining program at Arizona State.
Frank Kush's coaching record is 176-54-1, highlighted by seasons at Arizona State from 1958 to 1979.
Frank Kush coached 22 seasons, won 76.4%, and posted an average SRS of 9.7. Best season: 1973 Arizona State. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 176-54-1
- Career win rate
- 76.4%
- Average SRS
- 9.7
- Peak SRS
- 24.9
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
- 22
- Career span
- 22 years
- Best finish
- #2
- Consistency
- 23.9
Primary school anchor
Arizona State
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 92.3.
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
- 176-54-1
- Arizona State record
- 176-54-1
- Full-season record
- 173-52-1
- Partial-season record
- 3-2
- Vs AP Top 10
- 2-3
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Vs Arizona
- 16-5
- Postseason / bowl record
- 6-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
231 countable games, 76.4% win rate.
22 countable seasons at Arizona State.
21 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.
5 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
Duel in the Desert games in this dataset.
7 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, 1979. 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.
Frank Kush
EliteStrongAverageLean
1958Actual season year • SRS range -5.4 to 24.91979
Active comparison point
Frank Kush • 1973
1973 Arizona State
Best season11-1 • SRS 24.9 • SP Overall 24.6
Win %
91.7%
YoY SRS
+10.1
SP Off / Def
45.1 / 23.7
Finish
#9
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
2-3
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 40.0%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results13
| 1978 Regular Week 9 | Arizona State | Washington | #20 | L7-41 |
| 1978 Regular Week 7 | Arizona State | USC | #7 | W20-7 |
| 1977 Regular Week 11 | Arizona State | BYU | #17 | W24-13 |
| 1977 Postseason Week 1 | Arizona State | Penn State | #5 | L30-42 |
| 1976 Regular Week 2 | Arizona State | UCLA | #5 | L10-28 |
| 1975 Regular Week 13 | Arizona State | Arizona | #12 | W24-21 |
| 1975 Postseason Week 1 | Arizona State | Nebraska | #9 | W17-14 |
| 1974 Regular Week 11 | Arizona State | NC State | #16 | L14-35 |
| 1971 Regular Week 8 | Arizona State | Air Force | #18 | W44-28 |
| 1971 Regular Week 2 | Arizona State | Houston | #20 | W18-17 |
| 1968 Regular Week 12 | Arizona State | Arizona | #19 | W30-7 |
| 1967 Regular Week 8 | Arizona State | Wyoming | #8 | L13-15 |
| 1960 Regular Week 8 | Arizona State | New Mexico State | #20 | L24-27 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Arizona State
1958-1979 • 22 seasons
Avg SRS 9.7 • Win % 76.4%
- Longest tenure
- Arizona State • 22 seasons
- Best tenure
- Arizona State • 9.7 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Arizona State • 76.4%
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.
Frank Kush sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeFrank Kush sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Frank Kush
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 13.8
- Percentile
- 92th pct
Elite
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.
Arizona State
1958-1979 • 176-54-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 9.7Win % 76.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.2 during vs 7.2 baseline
+1.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
9.6 during vs 2.1 baseline
+7.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
14.1 during vs — baseline
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Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
28.6% during vs 20.0% baseline
+8.6%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Arizona State 1973
11-1 • SRS 24.9
Biggest Improvement
Arizona State 1977
9-3 • 18.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Arizona State 1972
10-2 • SP Off 49.1
Best Defensive Season
Arizona State 1975
12-0 • SP Def 15.6
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Arizona State 1965
6-4 • SRS -5.4
Biggest Drop
Arizona State 1976
4-7 • -22.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Arizona State | 1979 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60.0% | #18 | — | 11.5 | 10.5 | 30.5 | 21.3 | -1.1 | -15.0% | Partial season |
| Arizona State | 1978 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | — | — | 12.6 | 12.2 | 35.0 | 24.3 | -1.7 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1977 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | #17 | #18 | 14.3 | 9.6 | 34.4 | 26.6 | +18.2 | +38.6% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1976 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | #3 | — | -3.9 | -4.2 | 23.7 | 28.0 | -22.1 | -63.6% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1975 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #2 | 18.2 | 18.1 | 32.3 | 15.6 | +11.8 | +41.7% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1974 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | #15 | — | 6.4 | 6.2 | 24.0 | 18.8 | -18.5 | -33.3% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1973 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | #14 | #9 | 24.9 | 24.6 | 45.1 | 23.7 | +10.1 | +8.3% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1972 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.3% | #12 | #13 | 14.8 | 14.7 | 49.1 | 36.9 | -7.1 | -8.3% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1971 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | #14 | #8 | 21.9 | 24.2 | 44.1 | 22.4 | +0.9 | -8.3% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1970 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | #19 | #6 | 21.0 | 21.8 | 40.1 | 20.2 | +2.4 | +20.0% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1969 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | — | 18.6 | — | — | — | +0.7 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1968 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | #17 | — | 17.9 | — | — | — | +4.2 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1967 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | — | 13.7 | — | — | — | +12.8 | +30.0% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1966 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 0.9 | — | — | — | +6.3 | -10.0% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1965 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | -5.4 | — | — | — | -12.6 | -20.0% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1964 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | — | 7.2 | — | — | — | +1.6 | -8.9% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1963 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | — | 5.6 | — | — | — | -5.2 | +13.9% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1962 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 75.0% | — | — | 10.8 | — | — | — | +7.0 | +5.0% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1961 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 3.8 | — | — | — | +3.4 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1960 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 0.4 | — | — | — | 0.0 | -20.9% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1959 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.9% | — | — | 0.4 | — | — | — | +2.4 | +20.9% | Season summary |
| Arizona State | 1958 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | -2.0 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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