Top 25
16-40-4
- Games
- 60
- Win rate
- 30.0%
Peak DominatorDefense-FirstLong Career
Coach Profile
Bill Yeoman
College football coaching record, Houston years & career stats
1962-1986 • Houston
One defining program at Houston.
Bill Yeoman's coaching record is 160-108-8, highlighted by seasons at Houston from 1962 to 1986.
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.
- 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
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
- 160-108-8
- Houston record
- 160-108-8
- Full-season record
- 160-108-8
- Vs AP Top 10
- 6-20-3
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-9-2
- Vs Rice
- 12-4
- Postseason / bowl record
- 6-4-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
276 countable games, 59.4% win rate.
25 countable seasons at Houston.
25 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
29 games using AP ranking at game time.
11 games using AP ranking at game time.
Houston-Rice games in this dataset.
11 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
Bill Yeoman 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
- 17
- 10-win seasons
- 3
- Undefeated seasons
- 0
- Top-10 finishes
- 4
- National titles
- 0
68% 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: Nov 29, 1986. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
Coach FAQ
Quick answers about Bill Yeoman
Who is Bill Yeoman?
Bill Yeoman is a college football coach in the CFBTrack coaching database with primary school context at Houston, with a 160-108-8 career record from 1962-1986 across 25 countable seasons.
What is Bill Yeoman's college football coaching record?
Bill Yeoman's college football coaching record is 160-108-8 across 25 countable seasons, anchored by Houston.
Which schools did Bill Yeoman coach?
Bill Yeoman coached at Houston in the seasons covered by this profile.
How many winning seasons did Bill Yeoman have?
Bill Yeoman had 17 winning seasons across 25 countable season rows in this profile.
How many 10-win seasons did Bill Yeoman have?
Bill Yeoman had 3 seasons with at least 10 wins in the countable season data.
How many Top-10 finishes did Bill Yeoman have?
Bill Yeoman recorded 4 Top-10 final finishes in the tracked rankings.
What years did Bill Yeoman coach at Houston?
Bill Yeoman's Houston head coach years were 1962-1986, covering 25 countable seasons with a 160-108-8 record.
How did Bill Yeoman do against ranked opponents?
Bill Yeoman's AP Top 25 time-of-game record is 16-40-4 across 60 games.
How does CFBTrack count Bill Yeoman'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.
Bill Yeoman 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.
Bill Yeoman
EliteStrongAverageLean
1962Actual season year • SRS range -10.2 to 24.11986
Active comparison point
Bill Yeoman • 1969
1969 Houston
Best season9-2 • SRS 24.1 • SP Overall —
Win %
81.8%
YoY SRS
+2.2
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#12
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
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 9 | Houston | Arkansas | #13 | L13-30 |
| 1986 Regular Week 8 | Houston | SMU | #18 | L3-10 |
| 1986 Regular Week 7 | Houston | Texas A&M | #11 | L7-19 |
| 1986 Regular Week 6 | Houston | Baylor | #13 | L13-27 |
| 1985 Regular Week 9 | Houston | Arkansas | #14 | L27-57 |
| 1985 Regular Week 6 | Houston | Baylor | #19 | L21-24 |
| 1984 Regular Week 12 | Houston | Texas | #10 | W29-15 |
| 1984 Regular Week 11 | Houston | TCU | #15 | L14-21 |
| 1984 Regular Week 9 | Houston | SMU | #14 | W29-20 |
| 1984 Regular Week 5 | Houston | Washington | #6 | L7-35 |
| 1984 Postseason Week 1 | Houston | Boston College | #5 | L28-45 |
| 1983 Regular Week 14 | Houston | SMU | #6 | L12-34 |
| 1983 Regular Week 11 | Houston | Texas | #2 | L3-9 |
| 1982 Regular Week 8 | Houston | Arkansas | #6 | L3-38 |
| 1982 Regular Week 7 | Houston | SMU | #5 | L14-20 |
| 1982 Regular Week 3 | Houston | Arizona State | #13 | L10-24 |
| 1982 Regular Week 2 | Houston | Miami | #19 | L12-31 |
| 1981 Regular Week 10 | Houston | Texas | #5 | T14-14 |
| 1981 Regular Week 8 | Houston | Arkansas | #12 | W20-17 |
| 1981 Regular Week 7 | Houston | SMU | #10 | L22-38 |
| 1981 Regular Week 3 | Houston | Miami | #16 | L7-12 |
| 1981 Postseason Week 1 | Houston | Oklahoma | #20 | L14-40 |
| 1980 Regular Week 6 | Houston | Baylor | #18 | L12-24 |
| 1979 Regular Week 11 | Houston | Texas | #6 | L13-21 |
| 1979 Regular Week 9 | Houston | Arkansas | #9 | W13-10 |
| 1979 Postseason Week 1 | Houston | Nebraska | #9 | W17-14 |
| 1978 Regular Week 11 | Houston | Texas | #9 | W10-7 |
| 1978 Regular Week 9 | Houston | Arkansas | #17 | W20-9 |
| 1978 Regular Week 7 | Houston | Texas A&M | #12 | W33-0 |
| 1978 Regular Week 5 | Houston | Florida State | #18 | W27-21 |
| 1978 Postseason Week 1 | Houston | Notre Dame | #7 | L34-35 |
| 1977 Regular Week 10 | Houston | Texas | #1 | L21-35 |
| 1977 Regular Week 8 | Houston | Arkansas | #8 | L0-34 |
| 1977 Regular Week 3 | Houston | Penn State | #5 | L14-31 |
| 1977 Regular Week 2 | Houston | UCLA | #14 | W17-13 |
| 1976 Regular Week 12 | Houston | Texas Tech | #9 | W27-19 |
| 1976 Regular Week 8 | Houston | Arkansas | #14 | L7-14 |
| 1976 Postseason Week 1 | Houston | Maryland | #8 | W30-21 |
| 1974 Regular Week 1 | Houston | Arizona State | #15 | L9-30 |
| 1974 Postseason Week 1 | Houston | NC State | #11 | T31-31 |
| 1973 Regular Week 9 | Houston | Auburn | #19 | L0-7 |
| 1973 Postseason Week 1 | Houston | Tulane | #20 | W47-7 |
| 1972 Regular Week 2 | Houston | Arizona State | #13 | L28-33 |
| 1971 Regular Week 8 | Houston | Florida State | #19 | W14-7 |
| 1971 Regular Week 7 | Houston | Alabama | #4 | L20-34 |
| 1971 Regular Week 2 | Houston | Arizona State | #16 | L17-18 |
| 1971 Postseason Week 1 | Houston | Colorado | #3 | L17-29 |
| 1970 Regular Week 11 | Houston | Ole Miss | #12 | L13-24 |
| 1970 Regular Week 9 | Houston | Alabama | #19 | L21-30 |
| 1969 Regular Week 2 | Houston | Florida | #12 | L34-59 |
| 1969 Postseason Week 1 | Houston | Auburn | #20 | W36-7 |
| 1968 Regular Week 8 | Houston | Georgia | #7 | T10-10 |
| 1968 Regular Week 7 | Houston | Ole Miss | #17 | W29-7 |
| 1968 Regular Week 2 | Houston | Texas | #4 | T20-20 |
| 1967 Regular Week 5 | Houston | NC State | #9 | L6-16 |
| 1964 Regular Week 2 | Houston | Auburn | #7 | L0-30 |
| 1963 Regular Week 7 | Houston | Alabama | #7 | L13-21 |
| 1963 Regular Week 4 | Houston | Ole Miss | #10 | L6-20 |
| 1962 Regular Week 5 | Houston | Alabama | #2 | L3-14 |
| 1962 Regular Week 4 | Houston | Ole Miss | #5 | L7-40 |
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 • 25 seasons
- Best tenure
- Houston • 9.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Houston • 59.4%
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
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.
Bill Yeoman coaching record 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
Bill Yeoman coaching record by season
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
Scroll horizontally for advanced ratings. Select any column heading to change the sort.
| HoustonLowest | 1986 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 9.1% | — | — | -10.2 | -12.8 | 15.1 | 27.3 | -3.1 | -27.3% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1985 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -7.1 | -11.1 | 28.6 | 36.9 | -8.8 | -22.0% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1984 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 1.7 | 6.1 | 29.4 | 25.0 | +8.0 | +22.0% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1983 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -6.3 | -9.4 | 23.2 | 31.3 | -2.3 | -13.6% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1982 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | -4.0 | -3.1 | 24.5 | 27.7 | -18.6 | -12.5% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1981 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 62.5% | — | — | 14.6 | 16.1 | 28.0 | 12.5 | +2.1 | +4.2% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1980 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | #8 | — | 12.5 | 13.8 | 27.4 | 14.0 | -7.5 | -33.3% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1979 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | #16 | #5 | 20.0 | 21.2 | 31.4 | 11.0 | -2.1 | +16.7% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1978 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | — | #10 | 22.1 | 24.2 | 40.1 | 17.4 | +12.1 | +20.4% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1977 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | #14 | — | 10.0 | 6.9 | 32.7 | 27.7 | -7.6 | -28.8% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1976 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.3% | — | #4 | 17.6 | 20.7 | 36.2 | 17.0 | +23.8 | +63.3% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1975 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 20.0% | — | — | -6.2 | -13.0 | 20.3 | 32.1 | -17.3 | -50.8% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1974 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 70.8% | #11 | #19 | 11.1 | 11.9 | 28.8 | 17.7 | -7.4 | -20.8% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1973 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | #18 | #9 | 18.5 | 22.5 | 35.7 | 14.2 | +9.6 | +32.6% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1972 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 59.1% | — | — | 8.9 | 10.0 | 33.5 | 25.4 | -11.0 | -15.9% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1971 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | — | #17 | 19.9 | 27.0 | 39.6 | 13.9 | +3.4 | +2.3% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1970 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | #13 | #19 | 16.5 | 14.5 | 32.3 | 18.8 | -7.6 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| HoustonBest | 1969 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | #7 | #12 | 24.1 | — | — | — | +2.2 | +11.8% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1968 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 70.0% | — | #18 | 21.9 | — | — | — | +1.6 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1967 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 20.3 | — | — | — | -1.4 | -10.0% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1966 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | — | 21.7 | — | — | — | +18.1 | +35.0% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1965 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | — | — | 3.6 | — | — | — | +4.7 | +17.2% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1964 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 27.8% | — | — | -1.1 | — | — | — | -2.2 | +7.8% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1963 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 20.0% | — | — | 1.1 | — | — | — | -8.7 | -43.6% | Season summary |
| Houston | 1962 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 9.8 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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