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Bob Chesney
2024-2025 • James Madison
One defining program at James Madison.
Bob Chesney's coaching record is 21-6, highlighted by seasons at James Madison from 2024 to 2025.
Bob Chesney coached 2 seasons, won 77.8%, and posted an average SRS of 5.6. Best season: 2025 James Madison. The profile was balanced with limited volatility context. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 21-6
- Career win rate
- 77.8%
- Average SRS
- 5.6
- Peak SRS
- 9.9
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
- 2
- Career span
- 2 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- —
Primary school anchor
James Madison
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 61.1.
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
- 21-6
- James Madison record
- 21-6
- Full-season record
- 9-4
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-1
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-1
- Vs Liberty
- 1-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-1
- CFP record
- 0-1
- National titles
- 0
27 countable games, 77.8% win rate.
2 countable seasons at James Madison.
1 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
Battle of the Blue Ridge games in this dataset.
2 scored postseason games in this dataset.
1 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: Dec 21, 2025. At least one season record was backfilled from completed games, so current-season totals may move as more scores are loaded.
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.
Bob Chesney
EliteStrongAverageLean
2024Actual season year • SRS range 1.3 to 9.92025
Active comparison point
Bob Chesney • 2025
2025 James Madison
Best seasonBiggest improvementBiggest drop12-2 • SRS 9.9 • SP Overall 12.3
Win %
85.7%
YoY SRS
+8.6
SP Off / Def
34.9 / 21.4
Finish
Unranked
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
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- Win rate
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Top 5
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- Win rate
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Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
James Madison
2024-2025 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 5.6 • Win % 77.8%
- Longest tenure
- James Madison • 2 seasons
- Best tenure
- James Madison • 5.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- James Madison • 77.8%
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.
Bob Chesney sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeBob Chesney sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Bob Chesney
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 9.9
- Percentile
- 85th 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.
James Madison
2024-2025 • 21-6
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 5.6Win % 77.8%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
James Madison 2025
12-2 • SRS 9.9
Biggest Improvement
James Madison 2025
12-2 • 8.6 SRS
Best Offensive Season
James Madison 2025
12-2 • SP Off 34.9
Best Defensive Season
James Madison 2025
12-2 • SP Def 21.4
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
James Madison 2024
9-4 • SRS 1.3
Biggest Drop
James Madison 2025
12-2 • 8.6 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| James Madison | 2025 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.7% | — | — | 9.9 | 12.3 | 34.9 | 21.4 | +8.6 | +16.5% | Completed-game fallback |
| James Madison | 2024 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | — | 1.3 | 7.5 | 29.7 | 22.9 | — | — | Season summary |
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Statistical comps
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