Breaking Down Mike Gundy’s 104 Wins

One-hundred and four wins. An astonishing number. That’s 42 more than Pat Jones who was the previous record holder in Oklahoma State coaching history. Gundy is more than a full Jimmy Johnson (30-25-2) ahead of Jones, and there is no sign of slowing down any time soon.

There have been blowouts (Savannah) and nail-biters (all the Kansas State games). There have been ugly, slogging affairs (Montana State). There have been barn-burning shootouts (every Tech game). There have been unranked road wins and highly-ranked home losses. When you’ve coached 154 games in your career there will be a little bit of everything.

So let’s look at them. How good is Gundy on the road against the spread? What about at home when getting 3+ turnovers? What about in bowl games? We did this exercise last year before Gundy topped the century mark, and it was a lot of fun so I thought we should bring it back this season before the games get cranking. A look at Gundy’s 104 wins in a variety of ways. Most data came from Team Rankings or CFB Reference. Also, if you have requests, send them and we can try to figure them out for a follow-up post.

Overall

Home: 60-19 (80%)
Road: 34-25 (58%)
Neutral: 10-6 (63%)
Conference: 63-39 (62%)
Non-Conference: 41-11 (79%)
Bowls: 7-4 (64%)
Homecoming: 8-4 (66%)

As a Favorite

Overall: 80-12 (87%)
Home: 48-6 (89%)
Road: 25-5 (83%)

As an Underdog

Overall: 17-38 (31%)
Home: 6-13 (32%)
Road: 9-20 (31%)

Coming off a …

Loss: 27-18 (60%)
Win: 65-30 (68%)
Bye: 17-13 (57%)

Against the Spread

As home favorite: 34-20 (63%)
As road favorite: 17-11-2 (61%)
As home dog: 8-10-1 (44%)
As road dog: 13-16 (45%)

When scoring …

19 or less: 1-13 (7%)
20 or more: 103-37 (74%)
30 or more: 91-18 (83%)
40 or more: 57-4 (93%)
50 or more: 31-0 (100%)
60 or more: 11-0 (100%)

When holding teams to …

20 or less: 54-0 (100%)
30 or less: 78-9 (90%)
40 or less: 100-24 (81%)
50 or less: 103-43 (71%)
60 or less: 104-48 (68%)

When getting __ turnovers

0: 6-11 (35%)
1 or more: 98-39 (72%)
2 or more: 71-22 (76%)
3 or more: 49-6 (89%)
4 or more: 20-1 (95%)
5 or more: 9-1 (90%)

When rushing for __ yards per carry

2.9 or less: 10-11 (48%)
3 or more: 94-38 (71%
4 or more: 68-25 (73%)
5 or more: 43-17 (72%)
6 or more: 24-5 (83%)
7 or more: 13-0 (100%)

When throwing __ passes in a game

19 or fewer: 5-0 (100%)
20 or more: 99-50 (66%)
30 or more: 63-28 (69%)
40 or more: 27-17 (61%)
50 or more: 4-7 (36%)

Rankings

As top 10 team: 16-8 (66%)
Against top 10 teams: 6-15 (29%)
Against top 25 teams: 20-30 (40%)
Against top 25 teams at home: 12-14 (46%)
Against top 25 teams on the road/neutral: 8-16 (33%)