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Charles Atkinson

1949-1955BYU

One defining program at BYU.

Charles Atkinson's coaching record is 18-49-3, highlighted by seasons at BYU from 1949 to 1955.

Charles Atkinson coached 7 seasons, won 27.9%, and posted an average SRS of -23.0. Best season: 1953 BYU. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
18-49-3
Career win rate
27.9%
Average SRS
-23.0
Peak SRS
-14.0

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
7
Career span
7 years
Best finish
Consistency
49.0

Primary school anchor

BYU

Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 9.8.

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Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.

Compare Charles Atkinson
Overall record
18-49-3

70 countable games, 27.9% win rate.

BYU record
18-49-3

7 countable seasons at BYU.

Full-season record
18-49-3

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

Vs AP Top 25
0-1

1 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
0-0

0 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
0-0

0 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Utah
0-6-1

Holy War games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
0-0

0 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 26, 1955. 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.

Charles Atkinson
EliteStrongAverageLean
1949Actual season year • SRS range -35.3 to -14.01955

Active comparison point

Charles Atkinson1953

Selected

1953 BYU

Best season

2-7-1 • SRS -14.0 • SP Overall

Win %

25.0%

YoY SRS

+6.1

SP Off / Def

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Finish

Unranked

Comparison context

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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

0-1

Games
1
Win rate
0.0%

Top 10

0-0

Games
0
Win rate

Top 5

0-0

Games
0
Win rate
View ranked game results1
1950 Regular Week 9BYUWyoming#12L0-48

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

BYU

1949-19557 seasons

Avg SRS -23.0 • Win % 27.9%

Longest tenure
BYU • 7 seasons
Best tenure
BYU • -23.0 SRS
Best tenure win rate
BYU • 27.9%

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.

Not enough data to compare.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Not enough data to compare.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Charles Atkinson

Insufficient sample

Raw avg SP Overall
Percentile

Insufficient sample

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.

BYU

1949-195518-49-3

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (3 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS -23.0Win % 27.9%

Avg wins

Higher is better

2.6 during vs 4.3 baseline

-1.8

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-23.0 during vs -20.3 baseline

-2.7

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

during vs baseline

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

BYU 1953

2-7-1SRS -14.0

Biggest Improvement

BYU 1950

4-5-117.0 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Unavailable

Best Defensive Season

Unavailable

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

BYU 1949

0-11SRS -35.3

Biggest Drop

BYU 1954

1-8-10.1 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

BYU19551019010.0%-29.5-5.4-1.1%Season summary
BYU1954918011.1%-24.1-10.1-13.9%Season summary
BYU19531027125.0%-14.0+6.1-15.0%Season summary
BYU19521046040.0%-20.1-0.7-25.0%Season summary
BYU19511063165.0%-19.4-1.1+20.0%Season summary
BYU19501045145.0%-18.3+17.0+45.0%Season summary
BYU19491101100.0%-35.3Season summary

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