Top 25
16-26-1
- Games
- 43
- Win rate
- 38.4%
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Coach Profile
Gene Stallings
1965-1996 • Alabama, Texas A&M
2 schools coached, anchored by Alabama.
Gene Stallings coached 14 seasons, won 61.3%, and posted an average SRS of 9.1. Best season: 1992 Alabama. The profile was defense-first with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 97-61-2
- Career win rate
- 61.3%
- Average SRS
- 9.1
- Peak SRS
- 20.7
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
- 32 years
- Best finish
- #1
- Consistency
- 66.9
Primary school anchor
Alabama
Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 85.6.
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.
Gene Stallings
EliteStrongAverageLean
Gene Stallings: 1990 Alabama
1965Actual season year • SRS range -0.9 to 20.71996
Active comparison point
Gene Stallings • 1992
1992 Alabama
Best season13-0 • SRS 20.7 • SP Overall 27.2
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
+7.6
SP Off / Def
35.4 / 8.6
Finish
#1
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.
Top 10
6-19-1
- Games
- 26
- Win rate
- 25.0%
Top 5
1-8
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 11.1%
View ranked game results43
| 1996 Regular Week 12 | Alabama | LSU | #11 | W26-0 |
| 1996 Regular Week 10 | Alabama | Tennessee | #6 | L13-20 |
| 1996 Postseason Week 1 | Alabama | Florida | #1 | L30-45 |
| 1996 Postseason Week 1 | Alabama | Michigan | #20 | W17-14 |
| 1995 Regular Week 13 | Alabama | Auburn | #21 | L27-31 |
| 1995 Regular Week 8 | Alabama | Tennessee | #6 | L14-41 |
| 1994 Regular Week 13 | Alabama | Auburn | #6 | W21-14 |
| 1994 Regular Week 12 | Alabama | Mississippi State | #20 | W29-25 |
| 1994 Postseason Week 1 | Alabama | Florida | #7 | L23-24 |
| 1994 Postseason Week 1 | Alabama | Ohio State | #14 | W24-17 |
| 1993 Regular Week 13 | Alabama | Auburn | #6 | L14-22 |
| 1993 Regular Week 8 | Alabama | Tennessee | #10 | T17-17 |
| 1993 Postseason Week 1 | Alabama | Florida | #5 | L13-28 |
| 1993 Postseason Week 1 | Alabama | North Carolina | #19 | W24-10 |
| 1992 Regular Week 12 | Alabama | Mississippi State | #16 | W30-21 |
| 1992 Regular Week 8 | Alabama | Tennessee | #13 | W17-10 |
| 1992 Postseason Week 1 | Alabama | Miami | #3 | W34-13 |
| 1992 Postseason Week 1 | Alabama | Florida | #10 | W28-21 |
| 1991 Regular Week 8 | Alabama | Tennessee | #8 | W24-19 |
| 1991 Regular Week 4 | Alabama | Georgia | #25 | W10-0 |
| 1991 Regular Week 3 | Alabama | Florida | #6 | L0-35 |
| 1991 Postseason Week 1 | Alabama | Colorado | #20 | W30-25 |
| 1990 Regular Week 10 | Alabama | Penn State | #24 | L0-9 |
| 1990 Regular Week 9 | Alabama | Tennessee | #11 | W9-6 |
| 1990 Regular Week 4 | Alabama | Florida | #19 | L13-17 |
| 1990 Postseason Week 1 | Alabama | Louisville | #14 | L7-34 |
| 1971 Regular Week 12 | Texas A&M | Texas | #12 | L14-34 |
| 1971 Regular Week 8 | Texas A&M | Arkansas | #8 | W17-9 |
| 1971 Regular Week 3 | Texas A&M | Nebraska | #1 | L7-34 |
| 1970 Regular Week 14 | Texas A&M | Texas | #1 | L14-52 |
| 1970 Regular Week 10 | Texas A&M | Arkansas | #7 | L6-45 |
| 1970 Regular Week 6 | Texas A&M | Michigan | #6 | L10-14 |
| 1970 Regular Week 5 | Texas A&M | Ohio State | #1 | L13-56 |
| 1969 Regular Week 12 | Texas A&M | Texas | #1 | L12-49 |
| 1969 Regular Week 8 | Texas A&M | Arkansas | #4 | L13-35 |
| 1968 Regular Week 12 | Texas A&M | Texas | #6 | L14-35 |
| 1968 Regular Week 8 | Texas A&M | Arkansas | #17 | L22-25 |
| 1968 Regular Week 2 | Texas A&M | LSU | #20 | L12-13 |
| 1967 Regular Week 3 | Texas A&M | Purdue | #10 | L20-24 |
| 1967 Postseason Week 1 | Texas A&M | Alabama | #8 | W20-16 |
| 1966 Regular Week 8 | Texas A&M | Arkansas | #8 | L0-34 |
| 1965 Regular Week 8 | Texas A&M | Arkansas | #2 | L0-31 |
| 1965 Regular Week 2 | Texas A&M | LSU | #7 | L0-10 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Alabama
1990-1996 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS 12.5 • Win % 81.0%
Texas A&M
1965-1971 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS 5.7 • Win % 37.7%
- Longest tenure
- Alabama • 7 seasons
- Best tenure
- Alabama • 12.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Alabama • 81.0%
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.
Gene Stallings sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeGene Stallings sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Gene Stallings
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 13.0
- Percentile
- 91th pct
Elite
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.
Alabama
1990-1996 • 70-16-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 12.5Win % 81.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
10.0 during vs 9.0 baseline
+1.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
12.5 during vs 16.8 baseline
-4.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
17.4 during vs 22.0 baseline
-4.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
85.7% during vs 80.0% baseline
+5.7%
Texas A&M
1965-1971 • 27-45-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 5.7Win % 37.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.9 during vs 2.2 baseline
+1.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
5.7 during vs 6.0 baseline
-0.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-2.6 during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Alabama 1992
13-0 • SRS 20.7
Biggest Improvement
Alabama 1990
7-5 • 9.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Alabama 1992
13-0 • SP Off 35.4
Best Defensive Season
Alabama 1992
13-0 • SP Def 8.6
Setbacks
Worst Season
Texas A&M 1971
5-6 • SRS -0.9
Biggest Drop
Alabama 1993
9-3-1 • -6.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Alabama | 1996 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #15 | #11 | 11.6 | 17.1 | 31.2 | 15.3 | +4.8 | +4.2% |
| Alabama | 1995 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | #10 | #21 | 6.8 | 9.0 | 28.7 | 20.3 | -6.0 | -19.6% |
| Alabama | 1994 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 92.3% | #12 | #5 | 12.8 | 19.9 | 31.1 | 12.0 | -1.2 | +19.2% |
| Alabama | 1993 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 73.1% | #2 | #14 | 14.0 | 18.6 | 32.0 | 14.4 | -6.7 | -26.9% |
| Alabama | 1992 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | #9 | #1 | 20.7 | 27.2 | 35.4 | 8.6 | +7.6 | +8.3% |
| Alabama | 1991 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | #22 | #5 | 13.1 | 17.3 | 29.9 | 13.9 | +4.9 | +33.3% |
| Alabama | 1990 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | #12 | — | 8.2 | 13.0 | 27.1 | 14.3 | +9.1 | +12.9% |
| Texas A&M | 1971 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -0.9 | -3.5 | 17.2 | 20.5 | -3.6 | +27.3% |
| Texas A&M | 1970 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | 2.7 | -1.7 | 25.5 | 27.4 | -2.5 | -11.8% |
| Texas A&M | 1969 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | 5.2 | — | — | — | -5.6 | 0.0% |
| Texas A&M | 1968 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | #12 | — | 10.8 | — | — | — | -2.1 | -33.6% |
| Texas A&M | 1967 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 12.9 | — | — | — | +5.3 | +18.6% |
| Texas A&M | 1966 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | — | — | 7.6 | — | — | — | +6.1 | +15.0% |
| Texas A&M | 1965 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | 1.5 | — | — | — | — | — |
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