Hostile Territory

Lane Kiffin is 1–8 1–9 on the road against top 10 teams. Here's how his record matches up against everyone else.

Every coach since 1936

Every true road game against a top-10 team, per head coach. Tap a game for details, or the coach for their full record.
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What to read next

Streak King — win, lose, cover, or don't, all-time, active, at-home, on the road, underdog, favorite, conference-only, while ranked, against ranked, at night, trailing at the half, after a loss, after a bye... any constraint you can think of, somebody's team is the king of that streak.

How Many Rings? — There is one person who has the most rings in college football, and it isn't Nick Saban.

Who has the most college championships? — every NCAA champion across 33 sports since 1972.

All-time FBS records — all 136 programs ranked by total wins, win percentage and bowl record.

Method

No total on this page was reported by anyone — records are computed by joining three sources: game results (cfbfastR 2001–present, jhowell.net 1936–2000), weekly AP polls (College Poll Archive), and head coaches: researched row by row with a citation each since 1990, and before that CollegeFootballData's coach records checked against every team's results season by season (the work behind Streak King).

Each game's date links its receipt. Since 1990, for all but a handful, that's the home team's Sports-Reference schedule page as captured by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, with the matching row quoted on hover. The captures keep the receipts checkable after the live page changes; the archive is worth a donation. Before 1990 the date links the game's row on Howell's page, which is where the game came from rather than a second source (so the link is dashed), and the rank links the AP poll that was in effect at kickoff.

What counts as a road game, and whose record it goes on:

  • The team is the away team and the site is not neutral. Bowls, kickoff classics, and conference championship games are out. CFP first-round campus games count.
  • The opponent is ranked in the most recent AP poll published before kickoff — not the Coaches poll, not the CFP rankings, not the final poll.
  • There was no preseason poll before 1950, so a game played before that season's first poll (mid-October) has no rank and can't count. The AP ranked 20 teams before 1989, and 10 in 1961–67.
  • Before 2001 a game at a team's regular second home (Alabama at Legion Field, Arkansas at Little Rock) is treated as neutral, so it isn't counted yet.
  • The coach of record is whoever was head coach on the game date. Interim games count for the interim.
  • Coaches qualify by having led a power-conference program: since 1990, the conferences you'd expect; before that the SEC, Big Ten, Southwest, Big 8 (and the Big Six and Seven), the Pacific Coast through the Pac-10, the ACC, the Southern Conference through 1952, and independents that later joined one of them. All of their major-college head-coaching games count, including stops elsewhere.