San Diego State
1969-1972 • 36-8
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 8.7Win % 81.8%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
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Don Coryell
1969-1972 • San Diego State
One defining program at San Diego State.
Don Coryell's coaching record is 36-8, highlighted by seasons at San Diego State from 1969 to 1972.
Don Coryell coached 4 seasons, won 81.8%, and posted an average SRS of 8.7. Best season: 1969 San Diego State. The profile was defense-first with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 36-8
- Career win rate
- 81.8%
- Average SRS
- 8.7
- Peak SRS
- 19.8
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
- 4
- Career span
- 4 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 37.1
Primary school anchor
San Diego State
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 83.7.
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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.
- Overall record
- 36-8
- San Diego State record
- 36-8
- Full-season record
- 36-8
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-0
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Vs Fresno State
- 3-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
44 countable games, 81.8% win rate.
4 countable seasons at San Diego State.
4 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
Fresno State-San Diego State games in this dataset.
1 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: Dec 2, 1972. 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.
Don Coryell
EliteStrongAverageLean
1969Actual season year • SRS range -0.8 to 19.81972
Active comparison point
Don Coryell • 1969
1969 San Diego State
Best season11-0 • SRS 19.8 • SP Overall —
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
Unranked
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.
No ranked opponents found for this poll and timing combination.
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
San Diego State
1969-1972 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 8.7 • Win % 81.8%
- Longest tenure
- San Diego State • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- San Diego State • 8.7 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- San Diego State • 81.8%
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.
Don Coryell sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeDon Coryell sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Don Coryell
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 9.1
- Percentile
- 83th 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.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
San Diego State 1969
11-0 • SRS 19.8
Biggest Improvement
San Diego State 1972
10-1 • 6.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
San Diego State 1970
9-2 • SP Off 32.9
Best Defensive Season
San Diego State 1972
10-1 • SP Def 15.6
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
San Diego State 1971
6-5 • SRS -0.8
Biggest Drop
San Diego State 1971
6-5 • -11.0 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| San Diego State | 1972 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.9% | — | — | 5.4 | 13.1 | 28.7 | 15.6 | +6.2 | +36.4% | Season summary |
| San Diego State | 1971 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -0.8 | 1.0 | 26.8 | 26.1 | -11.0 | -27.3% | Season summary |
| San Diego State | 1970 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | — | — | 10.2 | 13.2 | 32.9 | 20.5 | -9.6 | -18.2% | Season summary |
| San Diego State | 1969 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | — | 19.8 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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Statistical comps
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same defense-first identity • volatility within 0.7
Avg SRS 11.4 • Peak SRS 18.7 • 3 seasons
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Open profile →Zach Arnett
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Avg SRS 5.8 • Peak SRS 19.5 • 5 seasons
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