Top 25
3-11
- Games
- 14
- Win rate
- 21.4%
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Foge Fazio
1982-1985 • Pittsburgh
One defining program at Pittsburgh.
Foge Fazio's coaching record is 25-18-3, highlighted by seasons at Pittsburgh from 1982 to 1985.
Foge Fazio coached 4 seasons, won 57.6%, and posted an average SRS of 9.7. Best season: 1982 Pittsburgh. The profile was defense-first with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 25-18-3
- Career win rate
- 57.6%
- Average SRS
- 9.7
- Peak SRS
- 20.0
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
- 4
- Career span
- 4 years
- Best finish
- #10
- Consistency
- 36.3
Primary school anchor
Pittsburgh
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 84.2.
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
- 25-18-3
- Pittsburgh record
- 25-18-3
- Full-season record
- 25-18-3
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-7
- Vs AP Top 5
- 1-4
- Vs West Virginia
- 1-2-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-2
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
46 countable games, 57.6% win rate.
4 countable seasons at Pittsburgh.
4 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
8 games using AP ranking at game time.
5 games using AP ranking at game time.
Backyard Brawl games in this dataset.
2 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: Nov 23, 1985. 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.
Foge Fazio
EliteStrongAverageLean
1982Actual season year • SRS range 1.1 to 20.01985
Active comparison point
Foge Fazio • 1982
1982 Pittsburgh
Best season9-3 • SRS 20.0 • SP Overall 22.7
Win %
75.0%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
32.1 / 10.3
Finish
#10
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
1-7
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 12.5%
Top 5
1-4
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 20.0%
View ranked game results14
| 1985 Regular Week 13 | Pittsburgh | Penn State | #1 | L0-31 |
| 1985 Regular Week 3 | Pittsburgh | Ohio State | #9 | L7-10 |
| 1984 Regular Week 9 | Pittsburgh | Miami | #8 | L7-27 |
| 1984 Regular Week 8 | Pittsburgh | South Carolina | #11 | L21-45 |
| 1984 Regular Week 4 | Pittsburgh | Oklahoma | #11 | L10-42 |
| 1984 Regular Week 2 | Pittsburgh | BYU | #13 | L14-20 |
| 1983 Regular Week 6 | Pittsburgh | West Virginia | #5 | L21-24 |
| 1983 Regular Week 5 | Pittsburgh | Maryland | #19 | L7-13 |
| 1983 Postseason Week 1 | Pittsburgh | Ohio State | #9 | L23-28 |
| 1982 Regular Week 13 | Pittsburgh | Penn State | #2 | L10-19 |
| 1982 Regular Week 5 | Pittsburgh | West Virginia | #14 | W16-13 |
| 1982 Regular Week 4 | Pittsburgh | Illinois | #19 | W20-3 |
| 1982 Regular Week 2 | Pittsburgh | North Carolina | #5 | W7-6 |
| 1982 Postseason Week 1 | Pittsburgh | SMU | #2 | L3-7 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Pittsburgh
1982-1985 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 9.7 • Win % 57.6%
- Longest tenure
- Pittsburgh • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Pittsburgh • 9.7 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Pittsburgh • 57.6%
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.
Foge Fazio sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeFoge Fazio sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Foge Fazio
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 9.4
- Percentile
- 84th 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.
Pittsburgh
1982-1985 • 25-18-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 9.7Win % 57.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.3 during vs 10.0 baseline
-3.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
9.7 during vs 22.1 baseline
-12.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
9.4 during vs 26.0 baseline
-16.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 80.0% baseline
-30.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Pittsburgh 1982
9-3 • SRS 20.0
Biggest Improvement
Pittsburgh 1985
5-5-1 • 2.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Pittsburgh 1982
9-3 • SP Off 32.1
Best Defensive Season
Pittsburgh 1982
9-3 • SP Def 10.3
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Pittsburgh 1984
3-7-1 • SRS 1.1
Biggest Drop
Pittsburgh 1984
3-7-1 • -12.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Pittsburgh | 1985 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | 3.9 | 0.8 | 21.3 | 20.5 | +2.8 | +18.2% | Season summary |
| Pittsburgh | 1984 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 31.8% | #3 | — | 1.1 | -0.3 | 23.4 | 23.4 | -12.7 | -39.0% | Season summary |
| Pittsburgh | 1983 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 70.8% | — | #18 | 13.8 | 14.5 | 29.5 | 15.5 | -6.2 | -4.2% | Season summary |
| Pittsburgh | 1982 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | #1 | #10 | 20.0 | 22.7 | 32.1 | 10.3 | — | — | Season summary |
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