Top 25
13-11
- Games
- 24
- Win rate
- 54.2%
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Tom Herman
2015-2024 • Florida Atlantic, Houston, Texas
3 schools coached, anchored by Texas.
Tom Herman's coaching record is 60-38, highlighted by seasons at Texas from 2015 to 2024.
Tom Herman coached 8 seasons, won 61.2%, and posted an average SRS of 5.9. Best season: 2019 Texas. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 60-38
- Career win rate
- 61.2%
- Average SRS
- 5.9
- Peak SRS
- 16.0
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
- 8
- Career span
- 10 years
- Best finish
- #8
- Consistency
- 7.4
Primary school anchor
Texas
Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 75.8.
Quick Answers
Records fans search first
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
- Overall record
- 60-38
- Texas record
- 32-18
- Full-season record
- 49-27
- Partial-season record
- 11-11
- Vs AP Top 10
- 3-6
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Vs Oklahoma
- 1-4
- Postseason / bowl record
- 5-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
98 countable games, 61.2% win rate.
4 countable seasons at Texas.
6 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.
9 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
Red River Rivalry games in this dataset.
5 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
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 30, 2024. 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.
Tom Herman
EliteStrongAverageLean
Tom Herman: 2017 TexasTom Herman: 2023 Florida Atlantic
2015Actual season year • SRS range -15.4 to 16.02024
Active comparison point
Tom Herman • 2019
2019 Texas
Best season8-5 • SRS 16.0 • SP Overall 12.0
Win %
61.5%
YoY SRS
+3.9
SP Off / Def
38.7 / 28.5
Finish
#25
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
3-6
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 33.3%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results24
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Florida Atlantic
2023-2024 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -12.6 • Win % 27.3%
Texas
2017-2020 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 13.1 • Win % 64.0%
Houston
2015-2016 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 9.8 • Win % 84.6%
- Longest tenure
- Texas • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Texas • 13.1 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Houston • 84.6%
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.
Tom Herman sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeTom Herman sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Tom Herman
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 4.7
- Percentile
- 72th 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.
Florida Atlantic
2023-2024 • 6-16
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -12.6Win % 27.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.0 during vs 6.2 baseline
-2.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-9.8 during vs -3.5 baseline
-6.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-9.4 during vs -2.8 baseline
-6.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Texas
2017-2020 • 32-18
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 13.1Win % 64.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.0 during vs 6.6 baseline
+1.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
13.1 during vs 6.8 baseline
+6.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
10.9 during vs 10.5 baseline
+0.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
+30.0%
Houston
2015-2016 • 22-4
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 9.8Win % 84.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
13.0 during vs 6.8 baseline
+6.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
14.3 during vs 1.4 baseline
+12.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
6.2 during vs 2.8 baseline
+3.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
100.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
+80.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Texas 2019
8-5 • SRS 16.0
Biggest Improvement
Texas 2017
7-6 • 5.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Texas 2019
8-5 • SP Off 38.7
Best Defensive Season
Texas 2017
7-6 • SP Def 16.3
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Florida Atlantic 2024
2-8 • SRS -15.4
Biggest Drop
Florida Atlantic 2023
4-8 • -23.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Florida Atlantic | 2024 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 20.0% | — | — | -15.4 | -12.7 | 20.8 | 32.1 | -5.6 | -13.3% | Partial season |
| Florida Atlantic | 2023 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -9.8 | -9.4 | 19.8 | 27.9 | -23.1 | -36.7% | Season summary |
| Texas | 2020 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | #14 | #19 | 13.3 | 9.7 | 34.8 | 25.2 | -2.7 | +8.5% | Season summary |
| Texas | 2019 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | #10 | #25 | 16.0 | 12.0 | 38.7 | 28.5 | +3.9 | -9.9% | Season summary |
| Texas | 2018 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 71.4% | #23 | — | 12.1 | 11.3 | 35.3 | 24.4 | +1.0 | +17.6% | Season summary |
| Texas | 2017 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | #23 | — | 11.1 | 10.6 | 26.7 | 16.3 | +5.7 | -21.1% | Season summary |
| Houston | 2016 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | #15 | — | 5.4 | 10.1 | 30.8 | 21.7 | -8.9 | -17.9% | Partial season |
| Houston | 2015 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 92.9% | — | #8 | 14.3 | 6.2 | 33.6 | 28.4 | — | — | Season summary |
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