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LaVell Edwards

1972-2000 • BYU

One defining program at BYU.

LaVell Edwards coached 29 seasons, won 71.6%, and posted an average SRS of 8.5. Best season: 1979 BYU. The profile was offense-first with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.

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Career record
257-101-3
Career win rate
71.6%
Average SRS
8.5
Peak SRS
22.2

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
29
Career span
29 years
Best finish
#1
Consistency
40.0

Primary school anchor

BYU

Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 88.7.

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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.

Compare LaVell Edwards
Overall record
257-101-3

361 countable games, 71.6% win rate.

BYU record
257-101-3

29 countable seasons at BYU.

Full-season record
257-101-3

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

Vs AP Top 25
15-34-1

50 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
2-9-1

12 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
1-3

4 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Utah
22-7

Holy War games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
8-15-1

24 scored postseason games in this dataset.

CFP record
0-0

0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.

National titles
1

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 24, 2000. 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.

LaVell Edwards
EliteStrongAverageLean
1972Actual season year • SRS range -5.9 to 22.22000

Active comparison point

LaVell Edwards • 1979

Selected

1979 BYU

Best season

11-1 • SRS 22.2 • SP Overall 26.3

Win %

91.7%

YoY SRS

+11.6

SP Off / Def

44.2 / 20.3

Finish

#13

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

15-34-1

Games
50
Win rate
31.0%

Top 10

2-9-1

Games
12
Win rate
20.8%

Top 5

1-3

Games
4
Win rate
25.0%
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1999 Regular Week 4BYUColorado State#23W34-13
1999 Postseason Week 1BYUMarshall#10L3-21
1998 Regular Week 4BYUWashington#9L10-20
1998 Postseason Week 1BYUTulane#7L27-41
1998 Postseason Week 1BYUAir Force#13L13-20
1997 Regular Week 5BYUArizona State#14W13-10
1997 Regular Week 3BYUWashington#4L20-42
1996 Regular Week 1BYUTexas A&M#13W41-37
1996 Postseason Week 1BYUKansas State#17W19-15
1996 Postseason Week 1BYUWyoming#22W28-25
1995 Regular Week 3BYUUCLA#12L9-23
1994 Regular Week 13BYUUtah#21L31-34
1994 Regular Week 8BYUNotre Dame#17W21-14
1993 Regular Week 8BYUNotre Dame#3L20-45
1993 Regular Week 7BYUUCLA#25L14-68
1993 Postseason Week 1BYUOhio State#11L21-28
1992 Regular Week 10BYUPenn State#14W30-17
1992 Regular Week 9BYUNotre Dame#10L16-42
1992 Regular Week 4BYUUCLA#15L10-17
1992 Postseason Week 1BYUKansas#22L20-23
1991 Regular Week 4BYUPenn State#12L7-33
1991 Regular Week 2BYUUCLA#23L23-27
1991 Postseason Week 1BYUIowa#10T13-13
1990 Regular Week 6BYUOregon#22L16-32
1990 Regular Week 3BYUMiami#10W28-21
1990 Postseason Week 1BYUTexas A&M#15L14-65
1989 Postseason Week 1BYUPenn State#15L39-50
1988 Regular Week 15BYUMiami#2L17-41
1988 Regular Week 3BYUTexas#19W47-6
1987 Regular Week 2BYUPittsburgh#18L17-27
1986 Regular Week 4BYUWashington#6L21-52
1986 Postseason Week 1BYUUCLA#14L10-31
1985 Regular Week 12BYUAir Force#4W28-21
1985 Regular Week 2BYUUCLA#20L24-27
1985 Postseason Week 1BYUOhio State#14L7-10
1984 Regular Week 2BYUPittsburgh#17W20-14
1982 Regular Week 2BYUGeorgia#6L14-17
1982 Postseason Week 1BYUOhio State#12L17-47
1981 Regular Week 11BYUHawai'i#19W13-3
1980 Postseason Week 1BYUSMU#20W46-45
1979 Postseason Week 1BYUIndiana#19L37-38
1977 Regular Week 11BYUArizona State#12L13-24
1976 Postseason Week 1BYUOklahoma State#14L21-49
1975 Regular Week 9BYUArizona#17L20-36
1975 Regular Week 4BYUArizona State#13L0-20
1974 Regular Week 10BYUArizona State#16W21-18
1974 Regular Week 8BYUArizona#16W37-13
1973 Regular Week 11BYUArizona#19L10-24
1973 Regular Week 8BYUArizona State#11L12-52
1972 Regular Week 7BYUArizona State#19L17-49

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

1972-2000 • 29 seasons

Avg SRS 8.5 • Win % 71.6%

Longest tenure
BYU • 29 seasons
Best tenure
BYU • 8.5 SRS
Best tenure win rate
BYU • 71.6%

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.

LaVell Edwards sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

LaVell Edwards sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

LaVell Edwards

Elite

Raw avg SP Overall
12.2
Percentile
90th pct

Elite

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

1972-2000 • 257-101-3

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

Avg SRS 8.5Win % 71.6%

Avg wins

Higher is better

8.9 during vs 4.4 baseline

+4.5

Avg SRS

Higher is better

8.5 during vs -1.2 baseline

+9.7

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

12.2 during vs -4.7 baseline

+16.9

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

41.4% during vs 0.0% baseline

+41.4%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

BYU 1979

11-1 • SRS 22.2

Biggest Improvement

BYU 1996

14-1 • 14.7 SRS

Best Offensive Season

BYU 1980

12-1 • SP Off 50.4

Best Defensive Season

BYU 1985

11-3 • SP Def 17.4

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

BYU 1972

7-4 • SRS -5.9

Biggest Drop

BYU 1997

6-5 • -18.3 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

BYU20001266050.0%——-0.92.430.729.5-7.4-16.7%Season summary
BYU19991284066.7%——6.513.035.623.8+4.3+2.4%Season summary
BYU19981495064.3%——2.26.632.427.8+5.4+9.7%Season summary
BYU19971165054.5%#19—-3.2-0.727.828.5-18.3-38.8%Season summary
BYU199615141093.3%—#515.120.043.426.6+14.7+29.7%Season summary
BYU19951174063.6%——0.46.534.429.9-6.4-13.3%Season summary
BYU199413103076.9%—#186.89.235.928.7+4.9+26.9%Season summary
BYU19931266050.0%#19—1.96.444.639.7-6.6-11.5%Season summary
BYU19921385061.5%#24—8.514.938.425.4-1.5-7.7%Season summary
BYU19911383269.2%#19#2310.018.643.028.0-3.7-7.7%Season summary
BYU199013103076.9%#16#2213.719.848.333.1+2.20.0%Season summary
BYU198913103076.9%#19#2211.515.746.835.1+4.3+7.7%Season summary
BYU19881394069.2%——7.211.237.828.7+7.30.0%Season summary
BYU19871394069.2%——-0.15.132.228.5-4.7+7.7%Season summary
BYU19861385061.5%#18—4.67.528.822.4-12.0-17.0%Season summary
BYU198514113078.6%#10#1616.620.536.617.4+0.7-21.4%Season summary
BYU1984131300100.0%—#115.922.139.819.2-3.5+8.3%Season summary
BYU198312111091.7%—#719.426.149.026.6+8.2+25.0%Season summary
BYU19821284066.7%——11.216.637.222.7-3.3-17.9%Season summary
BYU198113112084.6%#16#1314.517.842.728.3-7.3-7.7%Season summary
BYU198013121092.3%—#1221.828.250.427.3-0.4+0.6%Season summary
BYU197912111091.7%—#1322.226.344.220.3+11.6+22.4%Season summary
BYU19781394069.2%——10.613.130.117.7-6.7-12.6%Season summary
BYU19771192081.8%—#2017.312.238.828.2+11.7+6.8%Season summary
BYU19761293075.0%——5.67.433.628.2+2.1+20.4%Season summary
BYU19751165054.5%——3.54.427.824.7-2.6-8.0%Season summary
BYU19741274162.5%——6.17.428.622.4+2.5+17.1%Season summary
BYU19731156045.5%——3.63.733.331.3+9.5-18.2%Season summary
BYU19721174063.6%——-5.9-8.023.230.2——Season summary

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