Kevin Steele
Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 0-1
2020Citrus BowlL 19-35
Fans
No fan talk about him on our list yet. His record is on Career.
Stats
Big games
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.
0-4 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Bob Stoops.
ATS is his record against the spread: did his team beat the closing betting line, winning by more than it or losing by less? Lines start in 2013; a dash means fewer than 6 of those games had one. One-score games carry no spread record: a big favorite that wins a close game has almost always failed to cover, so that number would say nothing about the coach.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Passed more than the situation called for under Morris.
68 run and pass snaps at Auburn, 2020–2020, his own games, one row per offensive coordinator. Each cell is how much more often he passed than the rest of FBS did in the same situation (field zone, down, distance, score, quarter, same season), in percentage points.
Pass rate, stint by stint
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next, against the FBS-wide average of 41% pass. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Building the roster
Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2020 roster arrived on his watch — 125 of 125 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2020-2020) 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.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 9 of 27 signees (33%) across his 2020–2020 tenure, drawn from 11 states in all. Next: AL (6).
67% of his signees come from GA and its 5 border states (AL 6, FL 2, TN 1).
Off this map: 1 signee to the west (CA).
- median hometown distance
- 134 mi
- within 100 mi
- 32%
- within 500 mi
- 85%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 2%
The map counts signed recruits across his tenure; the distance figures cover his current roster, transfers and walk-ons included. Two different groups, kept separate on purpose.
News
No outlet on our list has written about him by name yet. His record is on Career.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Inheritor inherited a power and neither built it higher nor let it collapse · Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
Followed Gus Malzahn (2013–2020) · succeeded by Bryan Harsin (2021–2022).
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on offense and underperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
15th-best Baylor tenure of 16 by the numbers.
Followed Dave Roberts (1997–1998) · succeeded by Guy Morriss (2003–2007).
2 NFL Draft picks: Gary Baxter (2001), Ethan Kelley (2003)
Was he good?
The data leans negative, where the data can separate from zero: every conclusive reading points the same way.
-13.0 pts at Baylor · #1264 of 1290 · bottom quarterModel fit as of 2026-09-04.