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Bill Yeoman

1962-1986 • Houston

One defining program at Houston.

Bill Yeoman coached 25 seasons, won 59.4%, and posted an average SRS of 9.6. Best season: 1969 Houston. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.

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Career record
160-108-8
Career win rate
59.4%
Average SRS
9.6
Peak SRS
24.1

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
25
Career span
25 years
Best finish
#4
Consistency
9.6

Primary school anchor

Houston

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 91.3.

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.

Compare Bill Yeoman
Overall record
160-108-8

276 countable games, 59.4% win rate.

Houston record
160-108-8

25 countable seasons at Houston.

Full-season record
160-108-8

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

Vs AP Top 25
16-40-4

60 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
6-20-3

29 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
0-9-2

11 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Rice
12-4

Houston-Rice games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
6-4-1

11 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 29, 1986. 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.

Bill Yeoman
EliteStrongAverageLean
1962Actual season year • SRS range -10.2 to 24.11986

Active comparison point

Bill Yeoman • 1969

Selected

1969 Houston

Best season

9-2 • SRS 24.1 • SP Overall —

Win %

81.8%

YoY SRS

+2.2

SP Off / Def

— / —

Finish

#12

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

16-40-4

Games
60
Win rate
30.0%

Top 10

6-20-3

Games
29
Win rate
25.9%

Top 5

0-9-2

Games
11
Win rate
9.1%
View ranked game results60
1986 Regular Week 9HoustonArkansas#13L13-30
1986 Regular Week 8HoustonSMU#18L3-10
1986 Regular Week 7HoustonTexas A&M#11L7-19
1986 Regular Week 6HoustonBaylor#13L13-27
1985 Regular Week 9HoustonArkansas#14L27-57
1985 Regular Week 6HoustonBaylor#19L21-24
1984 Regular Week 12HoustonTexas#10W29-15
1984 Regular Week 11HoustonTCU#15L14-21
1984 Regular Week 9HoustonSMU#14W29-20
1984 Regular Week 5HoustonWashington#6L7-35
1984 Postseason Week 1HoustonBoston College#5L28-45
1983 Regular Week 14HoustonSMU#6L12-34
1983 Regular Week 11HoustonTexas#2L3-9
1982 Regular Week 8HoustonArkansas#6L3-38
1982 Regular Week 7HoustonSMU#5L14-20
1982 Regular Week 3HoustonArizona State#13L10-24
1982 Regular Week 2HoustonMiami#19L12-31
1981 Regular Week 10HoustonTexas#5T14-14
1981 Regular Week 8HoustonArkansas#12W20-17
1981 Regular Week 7HoustonSMU#10L22-38
1981 Regular Week 3HoustonMiami#16L7-12
1981 Postseason Week 1HoustonOklahoma#20L14-40
1980 Regular Week 6HoustonBaylor#18L12-24
1979 Regular Week 11HoustonTexas#6L13-21
1979 Regular Week 9HoustonArkansas#9W13-10
1979 Postseason Week 1HoustonNebraska#9W17-14
1978 Regular Week 11HoustonTexas#9W10-7
1978 Regular Week 9HoustonArkansas#17W20-9
1978 Regular Week 7HoustonTexas A&M#12W33-0
1978 Regular Week 5HoustonFlorida State#18W27-21
1978 Postseason Week 1HoustonNotre Dame#7L34-35
1977 Regular Week 10HoustonTexas#1L21-35
1977 Regular Week 8HoustonArkansas#8L0-34
1977 Regular Week 3HoustonPenn State#5L14-31
1977 Regular Week 2HoustonUCLA#14W17-13
1976 Regular Week 12HoustonTexas Tech#9W27-19
1976 Regular Week 8HoustonArkansas#14L7-14
1976 Postseason Week 1HoustonMaryland#8W30-21
1974 Regular Week 1HoustonArizona State#15L9-30
1974 Postseason Week 1HoustonNC State#11T31-31
1973 Regular Week 9HoustonAuburn#19L0-7
1973 Postseason Week 1HoustonTulane#20W47-7
1972 Regular Week 2HoustonArizona State#13L28-33
1971 Regular Week 8HoustonFlorida State#19W14-7
1971 Regular Week 7HoustonAlabama#4L20-34
1971 Regular Week 2HoustonArizona State#16L17-18
1971 Postseason Week 1HoustonColorado#3L17-29
1970 Regular Week 11HoustonOle Miss#12L13-24
1970 Regular Week 9HoustonAlabama#19L21-30
1969 Regular Week 2HoustonFlorida#12L34-59
1969 Postseason Week 1HoustonAuburn#20W36-7
1968 Regular Week 8HoustonGeorgia#7T10-10
1968 Regular Week 7HoustonOle Miss#17W29-7
1968 Regular Week 2HoustonTexas#4T20-20
1967 Regular Week 5HoustonNC State#9L6-16
1964 Regular Week 2HoustonAuburn#7L0-30
1963 Regular Week 7HoustonAlabama#7L13-21
1963 Regular Week 4HoustonOle Miss#10L6-20
1962 Regular Week 5HoustonAlabama#2L3-14
1962 Regular Week 4HoustonOle Miss#5L7-40

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Houston

1962-1986 • 25 seasons

Avg SRS 9.6 • Win % 59.4%

Longest tenure
Houston • 25 seasons
Best tenure
Houston • 9.6 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Houston • 59.4%

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.

Bill Yeoman sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Bill Yeoman sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Bill Yeoman

Strong

Raw avg SP Overall
8.6
Percentile
82th 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.

Houston

1962-1986 • 160-108-8

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

Avg SRS 9.6Win % 59.4%

Avg wins

Higher is better

6.4 during vs 4.8 baseline

+1.6

Avg SRS

Higher is better

9.6 during vs 3.6 baseline

+6.1

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

8.6 during vs — baseline

—

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

36.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+36.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Houston 1969

9-2 • SRS 24.1

Biggest Improvement

Houston 1976

10-2 • 23.8 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Houston 1978

9-3 • SP Off 40.1

Best Defensive Season

Houston 1979

11-1 • SP Def 11.0

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Houston 1986

1-10 • SRS -10.2

Biggest Drop

Houston 1982

5-5-1 • -18.6 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

Houston19861111009.1%——-10.2-12.815.127.3-3.1-27.3%Season summary
Houston19851147036.4%——-7.1-11.128.636.9-8.8-22.0%Season summary
Houston19841275058.3%——1.76.129.425.0+8.0+22.0%Season summary
Houston19831147036.4%——-6.3-9.423.231.3-2.3-13.6%Season summary
Houston19821155150.0%——-4.0-3.124.527.7-18.6-12.5%Season summary
Houston19811274162.5%——14.616.128.012.5+2.1+4.2%Season summary
Houston19801275058.3%#8—12.513.827.414.0-7.5-33.3%Season summary
Houston197912111091.7%#16#520.021.231.411.0-2.1+16.7%Season summary
Houston19781293075.0%—#1022.124.240.117.4+12.1+20.4%Season summary
Houston19771165054.5%#14—10.06.932.727.7-7.6-28.8%Season summary
Houston197612102083.3%—#417.620.736.217.0+23.8+63.3%Season summary
Houston19751028020.0%——-6.2-13.020.332.1-17.3-50.8%Season summary
Houston19741283170.8%#11#1911.111.928.817.7-7.4-20.8%Season summary
Houston197312111091.7%#18#918.522.535.714.2+9.6+32.6%Season summary
Houston19721164159.1%——8.910.033.525.4-11.0-15.9%Season summary
Houston19711293075.0%—#1719.927.039.613.9+3.4+2.3%Season summary
Houston19701183072.7%#13#1916.514.532.318.8-7.6-9.1%Season summary
Houston19691192081.8%#7#1224.1———+2.2+11.8%Season summary
Houston19681062270.0%—#1821.9———+1.60.0%Season summary
Houston19671073070.0%——20.3———-1.4-10.0%Season summary
Houston19661082080.0%——21.7———+18.1+35.0%Season summary
Houston19651045145.0%——3.6———+4.7+17.2%Season summary
Houston1964926127.8%——-1.1———-2.2+7.8%Season summary
Houston19631028020.0%——1.1———-8.7-43.6%Season summary
Houston19621174063.6%——9.8—————Season summary

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