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Dennis Franchione

1992-2015 • Alabama, New Mexico, TCU, Texas A&M, Texas State

5 schools coached, anchored by New Mexico.

Dennis Franchione's coaching record is 127-111, highlighted by seasons at New Mexico from 1992 to 2015.

Dennis Franchione coached 20 seasons, won 53.4%, and posted an average SRS of -0.5. Best season: 2002 Alabama. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 5 stints shaped the career arc.

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Career record
127-111
Career win rate
53.4%
Average SRS
-0.5
Peak SRS
17.7

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
24 years
Best finish
#11
Consistency
10.2

Primary school anchor

New Mexico

Offense-First profile with 5 program stops and a peak score of 79.6.

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.

Compare Dennis Franchione
Overall record
127-111

238 countable games, 53.4% win rate.

New Mexico record
33-36

6 countable seasons at New Mexico.

Full-season record
117-110

19 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.

Partial-season record
10-1

Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.

Vs AP Top 25
10-27

37 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
1-10

11 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
0-5

5 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs New Mexico State
5-1

Rio Grande Rivalry games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
3-5

8 scored postseason games in this dataset.

CFP record
0-0

0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.

National titles
0

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, 2015. 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.

Dennis Franchione
EliteStrongAverageLean
Dennis Franchione: 1998 TCUDennis Franchione: 2001 AlabamaDennis Franchione: 2003 Texas A&MDennis Franchione: 2012 Texas State
1992Actual season year • SRS range -22.8 to 17.72015

Active comparison point

Dennis Franchione • 2002

Selected

2002 Alabama

Best season

10-3 • SRS 17.7 • SP Overall 23.6

Win %

76.9%

YoY SRS

+7.3

SP Off / Def

37.6 / 14.4

Finish

#11

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.

Poll source
Ranking timing

Top 25

10-27

Games
37
Win rate
27.0%

Top 10

1-10

Games
11
Win rate
9.1%

Top 5

0-5

Games
5
Win rate
0.0%
View ranked game results37
2013 Regular Week 4Texas StateTexas Tech#25L7-33
2012 Regular Week 11Texas StateLouisiana Tech#19L55-62
2007 Regular Week 13Texas A&MTexas#13W38-30
2007 Regular Week 11Texas A&MMissouri#7L26-40
2007 Regular Week 10Texas A&MOklahoma#5L14-42
2007 Regular Week 9Texas A&MKansas#12L11-19
2006 Regular Week 13Texas A&MTexas#11W12-7
2006 Regular Week 10Texas A&MOklahoma#18L16-17
2006 Regular Week 7Texas A&MMissouri#19W25-19
2006 Postseason Week 1Texas A&MCalifornia#14L10-45
2005 Regular Week 13Texas A&MTexas#2L29-40
2005 Regular Week 10Texas A&MTexas Tech#16L17-56
2004 Regular Week 14Texas A&MTexas#6L13-26
2004 Regular Week 11Texas A&MOklahoma#2L35-42
2004 Regular Week 8Texas A&MOklahoma State#16W36-20
2004 Postseason Week 1Texas A&MTennessee#13L7-38
2003 Regular Week 15Texas A&MTexas#6L15-46
2003 Regular Week 12Texas A&MOklahoma#1L0-77
2003 Regular Week 10Texas A&MOklahoma State#18L10-38
2003 Regular Week 9Texas A&MNebraska#18L12-48
2003 Regular Week 6Texas A&MPittsburgh#17L26-37
2003 Regular Week 5Texas A&MVirginia Tech#8L19-35
2002 Regular Week 13AlabamaLSU#14W31-0
2002 Regular Week 10AlabamaTennessee#16W34-14
2002 Regular Week 9AlabamaOle Miss#21W42-7
2002 Regular Week 7AlabamaGeorgia#7L25-27
2002 Regular Week 3AlabamaOklahoma#2L27-37
2001 Regular Week 13AlabamaAuburn#17W31-7
2001 Regular Week 6AlabamaSouth Carolina#15L36-37
2001 Regular Week 2AlabamaUCLA#17L17-20
1999 Regular Week 2TCUArizona#15L31-35
1997 Postseason Week 1New MexicoColorado State#17L13-41
1995 Regular Week 10New MexicoTexas Tech#22L7-34
1994 Regular Week 11New MexicoUtah#9W23-21
1994 Regular Week 6New MexicoColorado State#24L31-38
1993 Regular Week 12New MexicoWyoming#23W10-7
1993 Regular Week 2New MexicoBYU#19L31-34

Tenure map

Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Texas State

2012-2015 • 4 seasons

Avg SRS -15.4 • Win % 41.7%

Texas A&M

2003-2007 • 5 seasons

Avg SRS 4.2 • Win % 52.5%

Alabama

2001-2002 • 2 seasons

Avg SRS 14.1 • Win % 68.0%

TCU

1998-2000 • 3 seasons

Avg SRS 6.4 • Win % 71.4%

New Mexico

1992-1997 • 6 seasons

Avg SRS -2.6 • Win % 47.8%

Longest tenure
New Mexico • 6 seasons
Best tenure
Alabama • 14.1 SRS
Best tenure win rate
TCU • 71.4%

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.

Dennis Franchione sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Dennis Franchione sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Dennis Franchione

Above average

Raw avg SP Overall
2.0
Percentile
64th pct

Above average

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.

Texas State

2012-2015 • 20-28

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.

Avg SRS -15.4Win % 41.7%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Texas A&M

2003-2007 • 32-29

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS 4.2Win % 52.5%

Avg wins

Higher is better

6.4 during vs 8.0 baseline

-1.6

Avg SRS

Higher is better

4.2 during vs 10.6 baseline

-6.4

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

8.1 during vs 14.8 baseline

-6.7

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline

-40.0%

Alabama

2001-2002 • 17-8

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS 14.1Win % 68.0%

Avg wins

Higher is better

8.5 during vs 6.8 baseline

+1.7

Avg SRS

Higher is better

14.1 during vs 8.1 baseline

+6.0

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

17.7 during vs 13.7 baseline

+4.0

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

50.0% during vs 100.0% baseline

-50.0%

TCU

1998-2000 • 25-10

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS 6.4Win % 71.4%

Avg wins

Higher is better

7.5 during vs 4.4 baseline

+3.1

Avg SRS

Higher is better

2.1 during vs -7.9 baseline

+10.0

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

2.8 during vs -10.5 baseline

+13.3

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

New Mexico

1992-1997 • 33-36

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS -2.6Win % 47.8%

Avg wins

Higher is better

5.5 during vs 1.8 baseline

+3.7

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-2.6 during vs -17.4 baseline

+14.8

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-1.0 during vs -18.8 baseline

+17.8

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Alabama 2002

10-3 • SRS 17.7

Biggest Improvement

Texas A&M 2004

7-5 • 20.1 SRS

Best Offensive Season

New Mexico 1994

5-7 • SP Off 40.1

Best Defensive Season

Alabama 2002

10-3 • SP Def 14.4

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Texas State 2015

3-9 • SRS -22.8

Biggest Drop

Texas A&M 2003

4-8 • -25.2 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.

Texas State20151239025.0%——-22.8-15.526.340.5-11.8-33.3%Season summary
Texas State20141275058.3%——-11.0-7.427.935.3+6.7+8.3%Season summary
Texas State20131266050.0%——-17.7-13.717.131.4-7.6+16.7%Season summary
Texas State20121248033.3%——-10.1-12.926.541.8-15.8-20.5%Season summary
Texas A&M20071376053.8%#25—5.77.635.428.1-0.3-15.4%Season summary
Texas A&M20061394069.2%——6.010.133.623.6+1.8+23.8%Season summary
Texas A&M20051156045.5%#17—4.27.336.929.6-8.4-12.9%Season summary
Texas A&M20041275058.3%——12.618.640.024.0+20.1+25.0%Season summary
Texas A&M20031248033.3%——-7.5-2.938.139.4-25.2-43.6%Season summary
Alabama200213103076.9%—#1117.723.637.614.4+7.3+18.6%Season summary
Alabama20011275058.3%#25—10.411.832.922.7-4.6-32.6%Season summary
TCU200011101090.9%#20#2115.014.735.321.8+12.6+24.2%Partial season
TCU19991284066.7%——2.43.230.328.3+0.6+8.3%Season summary
TCU19981275058.3%——1.82.426.324.7-1.5-10.9%Season summary
New Mexico19971394069.2%——3.37.135.230.0+5.4+14.7%Season summary
New Mexico19961165054.5%——-2.1-0.332.333.0+10.4+18.2%Season summary
New Mexico19951147036.4%——-12.5-10.025.934.4-13.5-5.3%Season summary
New Mexico19941257041.7%——1.01.440.138.9-0.9-12.9%Season summary
New Mexico19931165054.5%——1.93.534.232.4+9.3+27.3%Season summary
New Mexico19921138027.3%——-7.4-7.726.533.4——Season summary

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