Top 25
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
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Coach Profile
George Blackburn
1955-1970 • Cincinnati, Virginia
2 schools coached, anchored by Virginia.
George Blackburn's coaching record is 53-60-6, highlighted by seasons at Virginia from 1955 to 1970.
George Blackburn coached 12 seasons, won 47.1%, and posted an average SRS of -5.0. Best season: 1968 Virginia. The profile was defense-first with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 53-60-6
- Career win rate
- 47.1%
- Average SRS
- -5.0
- Peak SRS
- 6.5
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
- 12
- Career span
- 16 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 42.2
Primary school anchor
Virginia
Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 52.4.
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
- 53-60-6
- Virginia record
- 28-33
- Full-season record
- 53-60-6
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-3
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-3
- Vs North Carolina
- 4-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
119 countable games, 47.1% win rate.
6 countable seasons at Virginia.
12 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
3 games using AP ranking at game time.
3 games using AP ranking at game time.
South's Oldest Rivalry games in this dataset.
0 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 21, 1970. 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.
George Blackburn
EliteStrongAverageLean
George Blackburn: 1965 Virginia
1955Actual season year • SRS range -18.8 to 6.51970
Active comparison point
George Blackburn • 1968
1968 Virginia
Best season7-3 • SRS 6.5 • SP Overall —
Win %
70.0%
YoY SRS
+7.6
SP Off / Def
— / —
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
0-3
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-3
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results5
| 1968 Regular Week 2 | Virginia | Purdue | #1 | L6-44 |
| 1967 Regular Week 9 | Virginia | NC State | #3 | L8-30 |
| 1966 Regular Week 9 | Virginia | Georgia Tech | #5 | L13-14 |
| 1958 Regular Week 4 | Cincinnati | Houston | #19 | L13-34 |
| 1955 Regular Week 11 | Cincinnati | Miami (OH) | #16 | L0-14 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Virginia
1965-1970 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS -3.5 • Win % 45.9%
Cincinnati
1955-1960 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS -6.4 • Win % 48.3%
- Longest tenure
- Virginia • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- Virginia • -3.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Cincinnati • 48.3%
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.
George Blackburn sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeGeorge Blackburn sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
George Blackburn
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -11.8
- Percentile
- 23th pct
Lower end
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.
Virginia
1965-1970 • 28-33
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -3.5Win % 45.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.7 during vs 3.2 baseline
+1.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-3.5 during vs -10.1 baseline
+6.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-11.8 during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Cincinnati
1955-1960 • 25-27-6
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -6.4Win % 48.3%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Virginia 1968
7-3 • SRS 6.5
Biggest Improvement
Virginia 1965
4-6 • 17.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Virginia 1970
5-6 • SP Off 18.0
Best Defensive Season
Virginia 1970
5-6 • SP Def 28.9
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Cincinnati 1960
4-6 • SRS -18.8
Biggest Drop
Virginia 1969
3-7 • -24.3 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Virginia | 1970 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -7.5 | -11.8 | 18.0 | 28.9 | +10.3 | +15.4% | Season summary |
| Virginia | 1969 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -17.8 | — | — | — | -24.3 | -40.0% | Season summary |
| Virginia | 1968 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 6.5 | — | — | — | +7.6 | +20.0% | Season summary |
| Virginia | 1967 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -1.1 | — | — | — | -0.8 | +10.0% | Season summary |
| Virginia | 1966 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | -0.3 | — | — | — | +0.8 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Virginia | 1965 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | -1.1 | — | — | — | +17.7 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 1960 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | -18.8 | — | — | — | -16.8 | -15.0% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 1959 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | -2.0 | — | — | — | -2.1 | -15.0% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 1958 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 70.0% | — | — | 0.1 | — | — | — | +6.5 | +15.0% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 1957 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | -6.4 | — | — | — | -4.7 | +10.6% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 1956 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | -1.7 | — | — | — | +8.1 | +22.2% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 1955 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 22.2% | — | — | -9.8 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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