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John Mackovic

1978-2003 • Arizona, Illinois, Texas, Wake Forest

4 schools coached, anchored by Texas.

John Mackovic's coaching record is 95-82-3, highlighted by seasons at Texas from 1978 to 2003.

John Mackovic coached 16 seasons, won 53.6%, and posted an average SRS of 3.4. Best season: 1996 Texas. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 4 stints shaped the career arc.

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Career record
95-82-3
Career win rate
53.6%
Average SRS
3.4
Peak SRS
16.2

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
16
Career span
26 years
Best finish
#10
Consistency
34.0

Primary school anchor

Texas

Offense-First profile with 4 program stops and a peak score of 76.4.

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 John Mackovic
Overall record
95-82-3

180 countable games, 53.6% win rate.

Texas record
41-28-2

6 countable seasons at Texas.

Full-season record
88-73-3

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

Partial-season record
7-9

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

Vs AP Top 25
11-38-2

51 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
1-18-1

20 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
0-4

4 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Oklahoma
3-2-1

Red River 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: Nov 28, 2003. 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.

John Mackovic
EliteStrongAverageLean
John Mackovic: 1988 IllinoisJohn Mackovic: 1992 TexasJohn Mackovic: 2001 Arizona
1978Actual season year • SRS range -10.9 to 16.22003

Active comparison point

John Mackovic • 1996

Selected

1996 Texas

Best season

8-5 • SRS 16.2 • SP Overall 19.3

Win %

61.5%

YoY SRS

+5.2

SP Off / Def

43.1 / 27.3

Finish

#23

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

11-38-2

Games
51
Win rate
23.5%

Top 10

1-18-1

Games
20
Win rate
7.5%

Top 5

0-4

Games
4
Win rate
0.0%
View ranked game results51
2002 Regular Week 10ArizonaWashington State#9L13-21
2002 Regular Week 8ArizonaWashington#22L28-32
2002 Regular Week 7ArizonaOregon#8L14-31
2002 Regular Week 5ArizonaWisconsin#22L10-31
2001 Regular Week 12ArizonaStanford#16L37-51
2001 Regular Week 7ArizonaOregon#7L28-63
1997 Regular Week 15TexasTexas A&M#15L16-27
1996 Regular Week 10TexasColorado#8L24-28
1996 Regular Week 6TexasVirginia#19L13-37
1996 Regular Week 5TexasNotre Dame#9L24-27
1996 Postseason Week 1TexasNebraska#6W37-27
1996 Postseason Week 1TexasPenn State#7L15-38
1995 Regular Week 15TexasTexas A&M#16W16-6
1995 Regular Week 11TexasTexas Tech#23W48-7
1995 Regular Week 9TexasVirginia#14W17-16
1995 Regular Week 8TexasOklahoma#13T24-24
1995 Regular Week 5TexasNotre Dame#21L27-55
1995 Postseason Week 1TexasVirginia Tech#10L10-28
1994 Regular Week 11TexasTexas A&M#11L10-34
1994 Regular Week 7TexasOklahoma#16W17-10
1994 Regular Week 6TexasColorado#5L31-34
1993 Regular Week 14TexasTexas A&M#8L9-18
1993 Regular Week 7TexasOklahoma#10L17-38
1993 Regular Week 5TexasLouisville#24L10-41
1993 Regular Week 4TexasSyracuse#6T21-21
1993 Regular Week 2TexasColorado#11L14-36
1992 Regular Week 14TexasTexas A&M#4L13-34
1992 Regular Week 7TexasOklahoma#16W34-24
1992 Regular Week 3TexasSyracuse#9L21-31
1992 Regular Week 2TexasMississippi State#21L10-28
1990 Regular Week 12IllinoisMichigan#16L17-22
1990 Regular Week 11IllinoisIowa#6L28-54
1990 Regular Week 4IllinoisColorado#20W23-22
1990 Regular Week 3IllinoisArizona#20L16-28
1990 Postseason Week 1IllinoisClemson#9L0-30
1989 Regular Week 11IllinoisMichigan#3L10-24
1989 Regular Week 3IllinoisColorado#8L7-38
1989 Postseason Week 1IllinoisVirginia#18W31-21
1988 Regular Week 12IllinoisMichigan#13L9-38
1988 Regular Week 11IllinoisIndiana#20W21-20
1980 Regular Week 12Wake ForestSouth Carolina#14L38-39
1980 Regular Week 7Wake ForestNorth Carolina#8L9-27
1979 Regular Week 12Wake ForestSouth Carolina#19L14-35
1979 Regular Week 10Wake ForestClemson#18L0-31
1979 Regular Week 9Wake ForestAuburn#20W42-38
1979 Regular Week 7Wake ForestNorth Carolina#19W24-19
1979 Regular Week 5Wake ForestNC State#14L14-17
1978 Regular Week 10Wake ForestClemson#15L6-51
1978 Regular Week 8Wake ForestMaryland#5L0-39
1978 Regular Week 5Wake ForestNC State#20L10-34
1978 Regular Week 4Wake ForestLSU#11L11-13

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

2001-2003 • 3 seasons

Avg SRS -6.2 • Win % 35.7%

Texas

1992-1997 • 6 seasons

Avg SRS 5.7 • Win % 59.2%

Illinois

1988-1991 • 4 seasons

Avg SRS 8.2 • Win % 64.9%

Wake Forest

1978-1980 • 3 seasons

Avg SRS 2.0 • Win % 41.2%

Longest tenure
Texas • 6 seasons
Best tenure
Illinois • 8.2 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Illinois • 64.9%

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.

John Mackovic sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

John Mackovic sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

John Mackovic

Strong

Raw avg SP Overall
5.5
Percentile
74th pct

Strong

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

2001-2003 • 10-18

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

Avg SRS -6.2Win % 35.7%

Avg wins

Higher is better

4.5 during vs 7.0 baseline

-2.5

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-3.9 during vs 7.9 baseline

-11.7

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-3.0 during vs 10.3 baseline

-13.3

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline

-20.0%

Texas

1992-1997 • 41-28-2

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

Avg SRS 5.7Win % 59.2%

Avg wins

Higher is better

6.8 during vs 6.2 baseline

+0.6

Avg SRS

Higher is better

5.7 during vs 6.8 baseline

-1.1

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

8.1 during vs 9.7 baseline

-1.6

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

50.0% during vs 20.0% baseline

+30.0%

Illinois

1988-1991 • 30-16-1

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

Avg SRS 8.2Win % 64.9%

Avg wins

Higher is better

8.0 during vs 6.0 baseline

+2.0

Avg SRS

Higher is better

8.1 during vs 4.9 baseline

+3.2

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

10.1 during vs 5.4 baseline

+4.7

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

66.7% during vs 20.0% baseline

+46.7%

Wake Forest

1978-1980 • 14-20

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

Avg SRS 2.0Win % 41.2%

Avg wins

Higher is better

4.7 during vs 2.2 baseline

+2.5

Avg SRS

Higher is better

2.0 during vs -8.0 baseline

+10.0

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

4.1 during vs -13.9 baseline

+18.0

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Texas 1996

8-5 • SRS 16.2

Biggest Improvement

Illinois 1989

10-2 • 13.7 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Texas 1996

8-5 • SP Off 43.1

Best Defensive Season

Illinois 1989

10-2 • SP Def 15.9

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Arizona 2003

1-4 • SRS -10.9

Biggest Drop

Texas 1997

4-7 • -22.0 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

Arizona2003514020.0%——-10.9-7.428.034.3-7.4-13.3%Partial season
Arizona20021248033.3%——-3.5-2.726.329.0+0.7-12.1%Season summary
Arizona20011156045.5%——-4.2-3.437.439.2+1.6+9.1%Season summary
Texas19971147036.4%#12—-5.8-6.733.238.2-22.0-25.2%Season summary
Texas19961385061.5%#8#2316.219.343.127.3+5.2-19.2%Season summary
Texas199513102180.8%#18#1411.013.736.224.1+4.2+14.1%Season summary
Texas19941284066.7%#18#256.810.738.129.4+1.4+16.7%Season summary
Texas19931155150.0%——5.47.433.328.0+5.0-4.5%Season summary
Texas19921165054.5%#25—0.44.433.831.2-8.10.0%Season summary
Illinois19911165054.5%——8.59.426.818.3+0.1-12.1%Partial season
Illinois19901284066.7%#11#258.410.129.820.9-6.4-16.7%Season summary
Illinois198912102083.3%#22#1014.820.435.315.9+13.7+29.2%Season summary
Illinois19881265154.2%——1.1-0.324.525.0-6.5+8.7%Season summary
Wake Forest19801156045.5%——7.610.530.120.9+1.8-21.2%Season summary
Wake Forest19791284066.7%——5.811.331.221.5+13.3+57.6%Season summary
Wake Forest19781111009.1%——-7.5-9.516.224.8——Season summary

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