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Emory Bellard

1972-1985 • Mississippi State, Texas A&M

2 schools coached, anchored by Texas A&M.

Emory Bellard's coaching record is 85-69, highlighted by seasons at Texas A&M from 1972 to 1985.

Emory Bellard coached 14 seasons, won 55.2%, and posted an average SRS of 10.4. Best season: 1976 Texas A&M. The profile was defense-first with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.

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Career record
85-69
Career win rate
55.2%
Average SRS
10.4
Peak SRS
21.5

Career Dossier

One glance at the full arc.

The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.

Seasons coached
14
Career span
14 years
Best finish
#7
Consistency
61.3

Primary school anchor

Texas A&M

Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 87.4.

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Records fans search first

Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.

Compare Emory Bellard
Overall record
85-69

154 countable games, 55.2% win rate.

Mississippi State record
37-42

7 countable seasons at Mississippi State.

Full-season record
81-67

13 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.

Partial-season record
4-2

Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.

Vs AP Top 25
9-34

43 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
5-19

24 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
1-5

6 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Ole Miss
2-5

Egg Bowl games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
2-3

5 scored postseason games in this dataset.

CFP record
0-0

0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.

National titles
0

Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.

Record definition and data status

Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.

Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.

Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Nov 23, 1985. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.

Career Arc

Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.

Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.

Emory Bellard
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Emory Bellard: 1979 Mississippi State
1972Actual season year • SRS range 2.8 to 21.51985

Active comparison point

Emory Bellard • 1976

Selected

1976 Texas A&M

Best season

10-2 • SRS 21.5 • SP Overall 20.8

Win %

83.3%

YoY SRS

+1.5

SP Off / Def

35.2 / 15.1

Finish

#7

Comparison context

Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.

Ranked opponent record

Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.

Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.

Poll source
Ranking timing

Top 25

9-34

Games
43
Win rate
20.9%

Top 10

5-19

Games
24
Win rate
20.8%

Top 5

1-5

Games
6
Win rate
16.7%
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1985 Regular Week 12Mississippi StateLSU#19L15-17
1985 Regular Week 9Mississippi StateAuburn#6L9-21
1985 Regular Week 5Mississippi StateFlorida#11L22-36
1984 Regular Week 13Mississippi StateLSU#16W16-14
1984 Regular Week 10Mississippi StateAuburn#11L21-24
1984 Regular Week 8Mississippi StateKentucky#16L13-17
1983 Regular Week 10Mississippi StateAlabama#19L18-35
1983 Regular Week 9Mississippi StateAuburn#4L13-28
1983 Regular Week 8Mississippi StateMiami#8L7-31
1983 Regular Week 6Mississippi StateGeorgia#11L7-20
1983 Regular Week 5Mississippi StateFlorida#12L12-35
1982 Regular Week 11Mississippi StateLSU#6W27-24
1982 Regular Week 9Mississippi StateAlabama#9L12-20
1982 Regular Week 7Mississippi StateMiami#17L14-31
1982 Regular Week 5Mississippi StateGeorgia#6L22-29
1982 Regular Week 4Mississippi StateFlorida#5L17-27
1981 Regular Week 10Mississippi StateSouthern Miss#20L6-7
1981 Regular Week 9Mississippi StateAlabama#8L10-13
1981 Regular Week 7Mississippi StateMiami#13W14-10
1980 Regular Week 10Mississippi StateAlabama#6W6-3
1980 Regular Week 5Mississippi StateFlorida#19L15-21
1980 Postseason Week 1Mississippi StateNebraska#7L17-31
1979 Regular Week 11Mississippi StateAuburn#15L3-14
1979 Regular Week 10Mississippi StateAlabama#1L7-24
1979 Regular Week 7Mississippi StateFlorida State#7L6-17
1977 Regular Week 13Texas A&MTexas#1L28-57
1977 Regular Week 11Texas A&MArkansas#8L20-26
1977 Regular Week 5Texas A&MMichigan#3L3-41
1977 Regular Week 4Texas A&MTexas Tech#13W33-17
1977 Postseason Week 1Texas A&MUSC#13L28-47
1976 Regular Week 6Texas A&MTexas Tech#10L16-27
1975 Regular Week 14Texas A&MArkansas#18L6-31
1975 Regular Week 13Texas A&MTexas#5W20-10
1975 Postseason Week 1Texas A&MUSC#17L0-20
1974 Regular Week 13Texas A&MTexas#17L3-32
1974 Regular Week 6Texas A&MTexas Tech#9W28-7
1974 Regular Week 3Texas A&MLSU#7W21-14
1973 Regular Week 13Texas A&MTexas#9L13-42
1973 Regular Week 4Texas A&MLSU#10L23-28
1972 Regular Week 12Texas A&MTexas#7L3-38
1972 Regular Week 9Texas A&MArkansas#20W10-7
1972 Regular Week 3Texas A&MLSU#8L17-42
1972 Regular Week 2Texas A&MNebraska#10L7-37

Tenure map

Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Mississippi State

1979-1985 • 7 seasons

Avg SRS 6.8 • Win % 46.8%

Texas A&M

1972-1978 • 7 seasons

Avg SRS 14.0 • Win % 64.0%

Longest tenure
Mississippi State • 7 seasons
Best tenure
Texas A&M • 14.0 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Texas A&M • 64.0%

Style and Strength Profile

Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.

These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.

Overall Strength

Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.

Emory Bellard sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Emory Bellard sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Emory Bellard

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Raw avg SP Overall
9.8
Percentile
85th pct

Strong

Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.

Impact by school

See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.

Mississippi State

1979-1985 • 37-42

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS 6.8Win % 46.8%

Avg wins

Higher is better

5.3 during vs 7.0 baseline

-1.7

Avg SRS

Higher is better

6.8 during vs 10.3 baseline

-3.5

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

7.2 during vs 16.5 baseline

-9.3

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

14.3% during vs 40.0% baseline

-25.7%

Texas A&M

1972-1978 • 48-27

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS 14.0Win % 64.0%

Avg wins

Higher is better

7.3 during vs 4.0 baseline

+3.3

Avg SRS

Higher is better

13.9 during vs 6.1 baseline

+7.8

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

13.2 during vs -2.6 baseline

+15.8

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

50.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+50.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Texas A&M 1976

10-2 • SRS 21.5

Biggest Improvement

Mississippi State 1980

9-3 • 6.5 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Texas A&M 1977

8-4 • SP Off 38.7

Best Defensive Season

Texas A&M 1975

10-2 • SP Def 10.3

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Mississippi State 1984

4-7 • SRS 2.8

Biggest Drop

Mississippi State 1979

3-8 • -9.6 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.

Mississippi State19851156045.5%——3.12.132.030.9+0.3+9.1%Season summary
Mississippi State19841147036.4%——2.8-1.622.724.3-0.8+9.1%Season summary
Mississippi State19831138027.3%——3.65.128.524.3-5.6-18.2%Season summary
Mississippi State19821156045.5%——9.29.832.023.5-2.8-21.2%Season summary
Mississippi State19811284066.7%#14—12.013.123.410.8+0.4-8.3%Season summary
Mississippi State19801293075.0%—#1911.614.734.420.9+6.5+47.7%Season summary
Mississippi State19791138027.3%——5.17.321.115.0-9.6-39.4%Season summary
Texas A&M1978642066.7%#16#1914.78.227.519.9+2.40.0%Partial season
Texas A&M19771284066.7%#9—12.311.838.728.5-9.2-16.7%Season summary
Texas A&M197612102083.3%#14#721.520.835.215.1+1.50.0%Season summary
Texas A&M197512102083.3%#9#1120.019.128.110.3+4.2+10.6%Season summary
Texas A&M19741183072.7%#20#1615.814.925.911.4+5.6+27.3%Season summary
Texas A&M19731156045.5%——10.28.932.625.6+6.5+18.2%Season summary
Texas A&M19721138027.3%——3.73.723.720.6——Season summary

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