Francis Schmidt: coaching record and career

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Career arc

Stats

Big games

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Ohio State1936–40 · 25-14-1Idaho1941–42 · 7-12All jobs32-26-1

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

2-3 against his rivals at Ohio State. Winless in 3 tries against Fritz Crisler.

Rivalry record

2-3

40.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

6-8-1

40.0% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

2-1

66.7%

Rivalry ledger

Michigan2-340%

The toughest matchup

vs. Fritz Crisler0-3

3 meetings, 1938–1940

’38 L’39 L’40 L

0% win rate across a real, 3-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

2-1 66.7%

Power Program

2-7 22.2%

National Program

14-6 70.0%

Regional Program

5-0 100.0%

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

One-score games

1-2

33.3% · margin ≤8

Performance by opponent class

Power Program

0-3 0.0%

National Program

0-7 0.0%

Regional Program

2-1 66.7%

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

2-3 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Fritz Crisler.

Rivalry record

2-3

40.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

7-10-1

38.9% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

2-1

66.7%

Rivalry ledger

Michigan2-340%

The toughest matchup

vs. Fritz Crisler0-3

3 meetings, 1938–1940

’38 L’39 L’40 L

0% win rate across a real, 3-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

2-1 66.7%

Power Program

2-10 16.7%

National Program

14-13 51.9%

Regional Program

7-1 87.5%

Building the roster

Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Who followed him
2Roster ownership

Followed him here

Ohio State→

Idaho1941

No confirmed followers on this move. This move predates this database’s 2021 transfer-portal tracking floor, so real followers may be undercounted here.

Players who transferred from his old program to his new one through the portal in the same year he made the move. Name-matching across data sources misses some, so every count is a floor, not an exact number.

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1941-1942) predates 2021, when transfer-portal tracking begins in this database. Portal usage cannot be measured for this tenure at all -- this is not the same as '0% portal'.

“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.

Career

Coaching career

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The arc of his career is on Now.

Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder

1941–1942

Idaho Steady ▬

Regional Program IV → Regional Program IV

Francis Schmidt held Idaho at Regional Program IV for 2 seasons.

7-12

1936–1940

Ohio State Steady

Power Program II

Francis Schmidt held Ohio State at Power Program II for 5 seasons.

12th-best Ohio State tenure of 12 by the numbers.

Succeeded by Paul Brown (1941–1943).

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