Top 25
2-3
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 40.0%
Volatile BuilderOffense-FirstElite Peak
Coach Profile
Jack Pardee
College football coaching record, Houston years & career stats
1987-1989 • Houston
One defining program at Houston.
Jack Pardee's coaching record is 22-11-1, highlighted by seasons at Houston from 1987 to 1989.
Jack Pardee coached 3 seasons, won 66.2%, and posted an average SRS of 15.6. Best season: 1989 Houston. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 22-11-1
- Career win rate
- 66.2%
- Average SRS
- 15.6
- Peak SRS
- 25.9
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
- 3
- Career span
- 3 years
- Best finish
- #14
- Consistency
- 15.9
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
- 22-11-1
- Houston record
- 22-11-1
- Full-season record
- 22-11-1
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-0
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Vs Rice
- 3-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
34 countable games, 66.2% win rate.
3 countable seasons at Houston.
3 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
Houston-Rice 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.
Career Résumé
Jack Pardee season milestones
Winning, 10-win, and undefeated seasons are derived from countable season rows. Finish and title totals use the tracked final-ranking data.
- Winning seasons
- 2
- 10-win seasons
- 0
- Undefeated seasons
- 0
- Top-10 finishes
- 0
- National titles
- 0
67% of countable seasons
Seasons with at least 10 wins
No losses or ties
Tracked final rankings
Championship seasons
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, 1989. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
Coach FAQ
Quick answers about Jack Pardee
Who is Jack Pardee?
Jack Pardee is a college football coach in the CFBTrack coaching database with primary school context at Houston, with a 22-11-1 career record from 1987-1989 across 3 countable seasons.
What is Jack Pardee's college football coaching record?
Jack Pardee's college football coaching record is 22-11-1 across 3 countable seasons, anchored by Houston.
Which schools did Jack Pardee coach?
Jack Pardee coached at Houston in the seasons covered by this profile.
How many winning seasons did Jack Pardee have?
Jack Pardee had 2 winning seasons across 3 countable season rows in this profile.
How many 10-win seasons did Jack Pardee have?
Jack Pardee had 0 seasons with at least 10 wins in the countable season data.
How many Top-10 finishes did Jack Pardee have?
Jack Pardee recorded 0 Top-10 final finishes in the tracked rankings.
What years did Jack Pardee coach at Houston?
Jack Pardee's Houston head coach years were 1987-1989, covering 3 countable seasons with a 22-11-1 record.
How did Jack Pardee do against ranked opponents?
Jack Pardee's AP Top 25 time-of-game record is 2-3 across 5 games.
How does CFBTrack count Jack Pardee's coaching record?
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Jack Pardee 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 the peaks, floors, and changes between seasons.
Jack Pardee
EliteStrongAverageLean
1987Actual season year • SRS range 3.0 to 25.91989
Active comparison point
Jack Pardee • 1989
1989 Houston
Best seasonBiggest drop9-2 • SRS 25.9 • SP Overall 25.8
Win %
81.8%
YoY SRS
+8.1
SP Off / Def
50.3 / 29.7
Finish
#14
Season context
Focus a point to inspect that season's record, rating, finish, and year-over-year change.
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
1-0
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 100.0%
Top 5
0-0
- Games
- 0
- Win rate
- —
View ranked game results5
| 1989 Regular Week 13 | Houston | Texas Tech | #18 | W40-24 |
| 1989 Regular Week 9 | Houston | Arkansas | #13 | L39-45 |
| 1988 Regular Week 12 | Houston | Wyoming | #10 | W34-10 |
| 1988 Regular Week 9 | Houston | Arkansas | #13 | L21-26 |
| 1988 Postseason Week 1 | Houston | Washington State | #16 | L22-24 |
Tenure map
Read the career chronologically. Each stint expands by seasons coached, with its record and average SRS kept in view.
Length = seasons coachedOldest to newest
- Longest tenure
- Houston • 3 seasons
- Best tenure
- Houston • 15.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Houston • 66.2%
Style and Strength Profile
Read 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.
Overall Strength
Jack Pardee sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jack Pardee
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 16.9
- Percentile
- 96th pct
Elite
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Jack Pardee coaching record by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
Houston
1987-1989 • 22-11-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 15.6Win % 66.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.3 during vs 4.2 baseline
+3.1
Avg SRS
Higher is better
15.6 during vs -5.2 baseline
+20.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
16.9 during vs -6.1 baseline
+22.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
66.7% during vs 0.0% baseline
+66.7%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Houston 1989
9-2 • SRS 25.9
Biggest Improvement
Houston 1988
9-3 • 14.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Houston 1989
9-2 • SP Off 50.3
Best Defensive Season
Houston 1988
9-3 • SP Def 26.6
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Houston 1987
4-6-1 • SRS 3.0
Biggest Drop
Houston 1989
9-2 • 8.1 SRS
Jack Pardee coaching record by season
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
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