Top 25
7-10
- Games
- 17
- Win rate
- 41.2%
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Coach Profile
Bryan Harsin
2013-2022 • Arkansas State, Auburn, Boise State
3 schools coached, anchored by Boise State.
Bryan Harsin's coaching record is 85-36, highlighted by seasons at Boise State from 2013 to 2022.
Bryan Harsin coached 10 seasons, won 70.3%, and posted an average SRS of 6.2. Best season: 2014 Boise State. The profile was offense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 85-36
- Career win rate
- 70.3%
- Average SRS
- 6.2
- Peak SRS
- 10.0
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
- 10
- Career span
- 10 years
- Best finish
- #16
- Consistency
- 78.3
Primary school anchor
Boise State
Offense-First profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 61.6.
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
- 85-36
- Boise State record
- 69-19
- Full-season record
- 75-26
- Partial-season record
- 10-10
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-4
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Vs Nevada
- 3-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 3-3
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
121 countable games, 70.3% win rate.
7 countable seasons at Boise State.
8 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.
5 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
Boise State-Nevada games in this dataset.
6 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
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, 2022. 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.
Bryan Harsin
EliteStrongAverageLean
Bryan Harsin: 2014 Boise StateBryan Harsin: 2021 Auburn
2013Actual season year • SRS range -6.6 to 10.02022
Active comparison point
Bryan Harsin • 2014
2014 Boise State
Best seasonBiggest improvementNew stop: Boise State12-2 • SRS 10.0 • SP Overall 11.6
Win %
85.7%
YoY SRS
+16.6
SP Off / Def
36.6 / 24.7
Finish
#16
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.
Top 10
1-4
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 20.0%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results17
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Auburn
2021-2022 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 5.1 • Win % 42.9%
Boise State
2014-2020 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS 8.4 • Win % 78.4%
Arkansas State
2013-2013 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -6.6 • Win % 58.3%
- Longest tenure
- Boise State • 7 seasons
- Best tenure
- Boise State • 8.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Boise State • 78.4%
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.
Bryan Harsin sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeBryan Harsin sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Bryan Harsin
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 7.1
- Percentile
- 78th 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.
Auburn
2021-2022 • 9-12
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 5.1Win % 42.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.0 during vs 7.6 baseline
-1.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
7.1 during vs 17.1 baseline
-10.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
11.0 during vs 19.4 baseline
-8.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 60.0% baseline
-60.0%
Boise State
2014-2020 • 69-19
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 8.4Win % 78.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
9.9 during vs 11.4 baseline
-1.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
8.4 during vs 14.9 baseline
-6.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
10.1 during vs 18.8 baseline
-8.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
42.9% during vs 80.0% baseline
-37.1%
Arkansas State
2013-2013 • 7-5
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -6.6Win % 58.3%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Boise State 2014
12-2 • SRS 10.0
Biggest Improvement
Boise State 2014
12-2 • 16.6 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Boise State 2018
10-3 • SP Off 37.1
Best Defensive Season
Auburn 2021
6-7 • SP Def 19.8
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Arkansas State 2013
7-5 • SRS -6.6
Biggest Drop
Auburn 2022
3-5 • -4.0 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Auburn | 2022 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 37.5% | — | — | 3.1 | 5.1 | 32.6 | 27.9 | -4.0 | -8.6% | Partial season |
| Auburn | 2021 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | 7.1 | 11.0 | 30.2 | 19.8 | -0.6 | -25.3% | Season summary |
| Boise State | 2020 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 71.4% | — | — | 7.7 | 6.7 | 33.1 | 26.4 | -1.2 | -14.3% | Season summary |
| Boise State | 2019 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.7% | — | #23 | 8.9 | 8.1 | 32.9 | 25.0 | -0.4 | +8.8% | Season summary |
| Boise State | 2018 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #22 | — | 9.3 | 12.2 | 37.1 | 22.8 | +1.6 | -1.7% | Season summary |
| Boise State | 2017 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 78.6% | — | #22 | 7.7 | 9.1 | 28.6 | 20.5 | +0.8 | +1.7% | Season summary |
| Boise State | 2016 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | — | — | 6.9 | 11.5 | 36.7 | 25.0 | -1.2 | +7.7% | Season summary |
| Boise State | 2015 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #23 | — | 8.1 | 11.8 | 32.2 | 20.2 | -1.9 | -16.5% | Season summary |
| Boise State | 2014 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.7% | — | #16 | 10.0 | 11.6 | 36.6 | 24.7 | +16.6 | +27.4% | Season summary |
| Arkansas State | 2013 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | -6.6 | -16.2 | 20.8 | 37.9 | — | — | Partial season |
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