Top 25
25-40
- Games
- 65
- Win rate
- 38.5%
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Coach Profile
Kyle Whittingham
2004-2025 • Utah
One defining program at Utah.
Kyle Whittingham coached 22 seasons, won 66.0%, and posted an average SRS of 10.7. Best season: 2004 Utah. The profile was defense-first with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 167-86
- Career win rate
- 66.0%
- Average SRS
- 10.7
- Peak SRS
- 24.9
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
- 22
- Career span
- 22 years
- Best finish
- #2
- Consistency
- 62.9
Primary school anchor
Utah
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 92.3.
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.
Kyle Whittingham
EliteStrongAverageLean
2004Actual season year • SRS range 3.0 to 24.92025
Active comparison point
Kyle Whittingham • 2004
2004 Utah
Best season1-0 • SRS 24.9 • SP Overall 23.6
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
49.3 / 29.4
Finish
#4
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
7-15
- Games
- 22
- Win rate
- 31.8%
Top 5
3-5
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 37.5%
View ranked game results65
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Utah
2004-2025 • 22 seasons
Avg SRS 10.7 • Win % 66.0%
- Longest tenure
- Utah • 22 seasons
- Best tenure
- Utah • 10.7 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Utah • 66.0%
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.
Kyle Whittingham sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeKyle Whittingham sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Kyle Whittingham
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 13.1
- Percentile
- 92th 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.
Utah
2004-2025 • 167-86
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 10.7Win % 66.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.6 during vs 7.2 baseline
+0.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
10.7 during vs 5.1 baseline
+5.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
13.1 during vs 6.6 baseline
+6.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
40.9% during vs 20.0% baseline
+20.9%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Utah 2004
1-0 • SRS 24.9
Biggest Improvement
Utah 2025
0-0 • 15.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Utah 2004
1-0 • SP Off 49.3
Best Defensive Season
Utah 2008
13-0 • SP Def 15.6
Setbacks
Worst Season
Utah 2005
7-5 • SRS 3.0
Biggest Drop
Utah 2005
7-5 • -21.9 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Utah | 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 21.3 | 22.2 | 39.7 | 17.5 | +15.2 | — |
| Utah | 2024 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | #12 | — | 6.1 | 7.7 | 23.6 | 17.2 | -2.0 | -19.9% |
| Utah | 2023 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | #14 | — | 8.1 | 8.5 | 26.7 | 19.4 | -8.5 | -9.9% |
| Utah | 2022 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 71.4% | #7 | #10 | 16.6 | 19.2 | 37.3 | 17.3 | +1.3 | 0.0% |
| Utah | 2021 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 71.4% | #24 | #12 | 15.3 | 15.2 | 37.2 | 20.7 | — | +11.4% |
| Utah | 2020 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60.0% | #22 | — | — | — | — | — | — | -18.6% |
| Utah | 2019 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 78.6% | #14 | #16 | 18.8 | 19.5 | 36.5 | 17.0 | +8.2 | +14.3% |
| Utah | 2018 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 64.3% | — | — | 10.6 | 16.8 | 31.9 | 18.1 | +3.3 | +10.4% |
| Utah | 2017 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 7.3 | 12.0 | 30.6 | 20.5 | -1.9 | -15.4% |
| Utah | 2016 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | #23 | 9.2 | 10.9 | 32.5 | 23.6 | -2.6 | -7.7% |
| Utah | 2015 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | — | #17 | 11.8 | 11.0 | 28.8 | 19.8 | +1.1 | +7.7% |
| Utah | 2014 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | #21 | 10.7 | 8.8 | 29.1 | 23.0 | +1.1 | +27.6% |
| Utah | 2013 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | 9.6 | 11.8 | 30.1 | 19.9 | +6.4 | 0.0% |
| Utah | 2012 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | 3.2 | 3.8 | 24.4 | 21.3 | -2.1 | -19.9% |
| Utah | 2011 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 5.3 | 6.4 | 22.8 | 18.3 | -4.2 | -15.4% |
| Utah | 2010 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | — | — | 9.5 | 12.2 | 31.8 | 20.1 | +3.3 | 0.0% |
| Utah | 2009 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #19 | #18 | 6.2 | 15.1 | 30.4 | 17.0 | -9.9 | -23.1% |
| Utah | 2008 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #2 | 16.1 | 18.2 | 31.5 | 15.6 | +8.4 | +30.8% |
| Utah | 2007 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | — | 7.7 | 11.9 | 26.5 | 16.5 | +3.4 | +7.7% |
| Utah | 2006 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 4.3 | 12.0 | 29.8 | 19.5 | +1.3 | +3.2% |
| Utah | 2005 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 3.0 | 7.2 | 33.6 | 26.4 | -21.9 | -41.7% |
| Utah | 2004 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | #20 | #4 | 24.9 | 23.6 | 49.3 | 29.4 | — | — |
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