Record of Every Current SEC Coach vs. Ranked Teams

[Smashcat]

http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/record-every-current-sec-head-coach-vs-ranked-teams/
Head coach records vs. ranked teams all-time (opponents ranked at time of game)

• Nick Saban (Alabama, LSU, Michigan State, Toledo): 56-36; .641
• Les Miles (Oklahoma State, LSU): 41-24; .630
• Steve Spurrier (Duke, Florida, South Carolina): 65-49-1; .565
• Mark Richt (Georgia): 38-35; .520
• Kevin Sumlin (Houston, Texas A&M): 11-10; .523
• Gus Malzahn (Arkansas State, Auburn): 8-8; .500
• Bret Bielema (Wisconsin, Arkansas): 12-26; .315
• Hugh Freeze (Ole Miss): 5-11; .312
• Gary Pinkel (Toledo, Mizzou): 18-40; .310
• Will Muschamp (Florida, now Auburn asst.): 5-13; Jim McElwain (Colorado State): 0-2
• Dan Mullen (Mississippi State): 4-25; .137
• Butch Jones (Central Michigan, Cincinnati, Tennessee): 1-16; .058
• Derek Mason (Vanderbilt): 0-4
• Mark Stoops (Kentucky): 0-8

 

[hmt5000]

ouch. i would of thought the top of the league would of had better records than that. those top 3 especially you would think would be in the 80% range.

 

[footballfanatic77]

Pretty sure Derek Mason will be at the bottom of the list after this season.

 

[footballfanatic77]

ouch. i would of thought the top of the league would of had better records than that. those top 3 especially you would think would be in the 80% range.

They would once they were in the P5, but when you are at a school like Toledo you aren't going to win many games against ranked teams. Oklahoma State and Duke were also terrible when Miles and Spurrier got there so that hurts their records.

 

[Jon(-24)]

ouch. i would of thought the top of the league would of had better records than that. those top 3 especially you would think would be in the 80% range.

They play each other. Just gonna look at Les Miles at LSU cause it's less to go through than Saban or spurrier, but of his 24 losses to ranked teams he's got losses to:

2005: Tennessee(10) and Georgia (13)
2006: Auburn (3) and Florida (5)
2007: Kentucky (we were 17th at the time)
2008: Florida (11), Georgia (9) and Alabama (1)
2009: Florida (1), Alabama (3) OOC bowl loss to Penn State (9)
2010: Auburn (5) and Arkansas (12)
2011: Alabama (1)
2012: Florida (10), Bama (1), OOC Bowl loss to Clemson (11)
2013: Georgia (9) and Bama (1)
2014: Auburn (5), Bama (5)

Of 24 losses, 21 came since he joined the SEC, 19 have come against SEC opponents. When two ranked teams play in conference someone's gonna take one on the chin. A more interesting list would be SEC coaches verse OOC top 25 teams.

 

[Jon(-24)]

Also, I'm not sure where the numbers come from, cause I just looked up The mad hatter's Okie State records too, he dropped 10 games to ranked opponents. That's 31 by my count, and with other fans who know their teams calling him out in the comments a bit, seems this is another really poorly researched puff piece from SDS (a shocker, I know.)

 

[WildCard]

Interesting but I'm not sure what to make of it. To begin with, it would be a better indicator if it were teams that finished in the Top 25 rather than were in the Top 25 at the time of the game. The final results are a much better indicator of how good you are than a snapshot during the season.

Regardless, I think everyone would agree the top 4 names on that list are ramen good coaches regardless of their W/L record in this particular study. Likewise, I think everyone that the last 2 guys on the list are at an extreme disadvantage in this study. JMO.

Peace