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Mike Stoops

2004-2011Arizona

One defining program at Arizona.

Mike Stoops's coaching record is 41-50, highlighted by seasons at Arizona from 2004 to 2011.

Mike Stoops coached 8 seasons, won 45.1%, and posted an average SRS of 6.5. Best season: 2010 Arizona. The profile was defense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
41-50
Career win rate
45.1%
Average SRS
6.5
Peak SRS
12.8

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
8
Career span
8 years
Best finish
Consistency
83.2

Primary school anchor

Arizona

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 67.9.

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 Mike Stoops
Overall record
41-50

91 countable games, 45.1% win rate.

Arizona record
41-50

8 countable seasons at Arizona.

Full-season record
40-45

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

Partial-season record
1-5

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

Vs AP Top 25
9-20

29 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
4-10

14 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
1-4

5 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Arizona State
3-4

Duel in the Desert games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
1-2

3 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 26, 2011. 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.

Mike Stoops
EliteStrongAverageLean
2004Actual season year • SRS range 0.5 to 12.82011

Active comparison point

Mike Stoops2010

Selected

2010 Arizona

Best seasonBiggest improvement

7-6 • SRS 12.8 • SP Overall 14.8

Win %

53.8%

YoY SRS

+5.3

SP Off / Def

34.5 / 19.4

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.

Poll source
Ranking timing

Top 25

9-20

Games
29
Win rate
31.0%

Top 10

4-10

Games
14
Win rate
28.6%

Top 5

1-4

Games
5
Win rate
20.0%
View ranked game results29

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

2004-20118 seasons

Avg SRS 6.5 • Win % 45.1%

Longest tenure
Arizona • 8 seasons
Best tenure
Arizona • 6.5 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Arizona • 45.1%

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.

Mike Stoops sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Mike Stoops sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Mike Stoops

Strong

Raw avg SP Overall
5.8
Percentile
75th 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

2004-201141-50

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

Avg SRS 6.5Win % 45.1%

Avg wins

Higher is better

5.7 during vs 4.2 baseline

+1.5

Avg SRS

Higher is better

7.4 during vs -2.2 baseline

+9.5

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

7.0 during vs -0.1 baseline

+7.1

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Arizona 2010

7-6SRS 12.8

Biggest Improvement

Arizona 2010

7-65.3 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Arizona 2011

1-5SP Off 35.9

Best Defensive Season

Arizona 2006

6-6SP Def 17.8

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Arizona 2011

1-5SRS 0.5

Biggest Drop

Arizona 2011

1-5-12.3 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

Arizona2011615016.7%0.5-2.435.936.4-12.3-37.2%Partial season
Arizona20101376053.8%12.814.834.519.4+5.3-7.7%Season summary
Arizona20091385061.5%7.57.128.120.4-4.10.0%Season summary
Arizona20081385061.5%11.616.334.920.5+3.6+19.9%Season summary
Arizona20071257041.7%8.07.326.621.3+2.0-8.3%Season summary
Arizona20061266050.0%6.0-1.015.417.8+1.8+22.7%Season summary
Arizona20051138027.3%4.21.526.925.4+2.80.0%Season summary
Arizona20041138027.3%1.43.126.324.0Season summary

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