Top 25
5-36-3
- Games
- 44
- Win rate
- 14.8%
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Coach Profile
Ben Martin
1956-1977 • Air Force, Virginia
2 schools coached, anchored by Air Force.
Ben Martin's coaching record is 102-116-10, highlighted by seasons at Air Force from 1956 to 1977.
Ben Martin coached 22 seasons, won 46.9%, and posted an average SRS of 1.8. Best season: 1969 Air Force. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 102-116-10
- Career win rate
- 46.9%
- Average SRS
- 1.8
- Peak SRS
- 17.0
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
- 22
- Career span
- 22 years
- Best finish
- #6
- Consistency
- 33.5
Primary school anchor
Air Force
Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 78.0.
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
- 102-116-10
- Air Force record
- 96-103-9
- Full-season record
- 102-116-10
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-21-2
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-11
- Vs Colorado State
- 11-3-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-2-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
228 countable games, 46.9% win rate.
20 countable seasons at Air Force.
22 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
24 games using AP ranking at game time.
11 games using AP ranking at game time.
Air Force-Colorado State games in this dataset.
3 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 19, 1977. 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.
Ben Martin
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Ben Martin: 1958 Air Force
1956Actual season year • SRS range -9.8 to 17.01977
Active comparison point
Ben Martin • 1969
1969 Air Force
Best season6-4 • SRS 17.0 • SP Overall —
Win %
60.0%
YoY SRS
+8.1
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
1-21-2
- Games
- 24
- Win rate
- 8.3%
Top 5
0-11
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results44
| 1977 Regular Week 12 | Air Force | Notre Dame | #5 | L0-49 |
| 1976 Regular Week 4 | Air Force | UCLA | #4 | L7-40 |
| 1975 Regular Week 11 | Air Force | California | #15 | L14-31 |
| 1975 Regular Week 7 | Air Force | Notre Dame | #15 | L30-31 |
| 1975 Regular Week 4 | Air Force | UCLA | #10 | T20-20 |
| 1974 Regular Week 12 | Air Force | Notre Dame | #5 | L0-38 |
| 1973 Regular Week 13 | Air Force | Notre Dame | #5 | L15-48 |
| 1973 Regular Week 7 | Air Force | Colorado | #16 | L17-38 |
| 1973 Regular Week 6 | Air Force | Penn State | #7 | L9-19 |
| 1972 Regular Week 11 | Air Force | Colorado | #15 | L7-38 |
| 1972 Regular Week 10 | Air Force | Notre Dame | #12 | L7-21 |
| 1972 Regular Week 8 | Air Force | Arizona State | #16 | W39-31 |
| 1971 Regular Week 11 | Air Force | Colorado | #10 | L17-53 |
| 1971 Regular Week 8 | Air Force | Arizona State | #13 | L28-44 |
| 1971 Regular Week 4 | Air Force | Penn State | #9 | L14-16 |
| 1970 Regular Week 12 | Air Force | Stanford | #13 | W31-14 |
| 1970 Regular Week 5 | Air Force | Missouri | #16 | W37-14 |
| 1970 Postseason Week 1 | Air Force | Tennessee | #4 | L13-34 |
| 1969 Regular Week 11 | Air Force | Notre Dame | #8 | L6-13 |
| 1969 Regular Week 10 | Air Force | Stanford | #14 | L34-47 |
| 1969 Regular Week 3 | Air Force | Wyoming | #19 | L25-27 |
| 1969 Regular Week 2 | Air Force | Missouri | #11 | L17-19 |
| 1968 Regular Week 3 | Air Force | Wyoming | #20 | W10-3 |
| 1968 Regular Week 2 | Air Force | Florida | #6 | L20-23 |
| 1966 Regular Week 8 | Air Force | UCLA | #3 | L13-38 |
| 1965 Regular Week 8 | Air Force | UCLA | #8 | L0-10 |
| 1965 Regular Week 3 | Air Force | Nebraska | #3 | L17-27 |
| 1964 Regular Week 5 | Air Force | Notre Dame | #2 | L7-34 |
| 1964 Regular Week 3 | Air Force | Michigan | #7 | L7-24 |
| 1964 Regular Week 2 | Air Force | Washington | #10 | W3-2 |
| 1962 Regular Week 3 | Air Force | Penn State | #4 | L6-20 |
| 1961 Regular Week 2 | Air Force | UCLA | #9 | L6-19 |
| 1960 Regular Week 10 | Air Force | UCLA | #11 | L0-22 |
| 1960 Regular Week 6 | Air Force | Navy | #4 | L3-35 |
| 1960 Regular Week 5 | Air Force | Missouri | #6 | L8-34 |
| 1959 Regular Week 6 | Air Force | Oregon | #11 | L3-20 |
| 1958 Regular Week 4 | Air Force | Iowa | #17 | T13-13 |
| 1958 Postseason Week 1 | Air Force | TCU | #10 | T0-0 |
| 1957 Regular Week 8 | Virginia | VMI | #20 | L7-20 |
| 1957 Regular Week 7 | Virginia | Army | #9 | L12-20 |
| 1957 Regular Week 3 | Virginia | Duke | #4 | L0-40 |
| 1956 Regular Week 10 | Virginia | Navy | #15 | L7-34 |
| 1956 Regular Week 7 | Virginia | Virginia Tech | #15 | L7-14 |
| 1956 Regular Week 5 | Virginia | South Carolina | #20 | L13-27 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Air Force
1958-1977 • 20 seasons
Avg SRS 2.3 • Win % 48.3%
Virginia
1956-1957 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -3.0 • Win % 32.5%
- Longest tenure
- Air Force • 20 seasons
- Best tenure
- Air Force • 2.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Air Force • 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.
Ben Martin sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeBen Martin sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Ben Martin
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -3.5
- Percentile
- 46th pct
Mixed
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.
Air Force
1958-1977 • 96-103-9
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 2.3Win % 48.3%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Virginia
1956-1957 • 6-13-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -3.0Win % 32.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.0 during vs 4.2 baseline
-1.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-3.0 during vs -3.2 baseline
+0.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Air Force 1969
6-4 • SRS 17.0
Biggest Improvement
Air Force 1958
9-0-2 • 14.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Air Force 1970
9-3 • SP Off 38.8
Best Defensive Season
Air Force 1971
6-4 • SP Def 20.3
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Air Force 1976
4-7 • SRS -9.8
Biggest Drop
Air Force 1971
6-4 • -12.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Air Force | 1977 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 22.7% | — | — | -8.3 | -15.9 | 14.8 | 30.0 | +1.5 | -13.6% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1976 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -9.8 | -14.5 | 18.3 | 31.8 | -6.0 | +13.6% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1975 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 22.7% | — | — | -3.8 | -9.6 | 18.7 | 27.6 | +2.5 | +4.5% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1974 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -6.3 | -15.3 | 14.2 | 28.4 | -7.2 | -41.8% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1973 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 0.9 | -0.3 | 28.4 | 28.5 | -5.2 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1972 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 6.1 | 5.3 | 32.0 | 28.1 | +1.6 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1971 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 4.5 | 4.6 | 24.4 | 20.3 | -12.1 | -15.0% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1970 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | — | #16 | 16.6 | 17.4 | 38.8 | 23.1 | -0.4 | +15.0% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1969 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 17.0 | — | — | — | +8.1 | -10.0% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1968 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 8.9 | — | — | — | +13.7 | +40.0% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1967 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 30.0% | — | — | -4.8 | — | — | — | -5.8 | -10.0% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1966 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | 1.0 | — | — | — | -1.0 | +5.0% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1965 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 35.0% | — | — | 2.0 | — | — | — | -3.6 | -10.0% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1964 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | — | — | 5.6 | — | — | — | -2.4 | -18.6% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1963 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 8.0 | — | — | — | +6.8 | +13.6% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1962 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 1.2 | — | — | — | +10.8 | +20.0% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1961 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -9.6 | — | — | — | -7.3 | -10.0% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1960 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | -2.3 | — | — | — | -5.9 | -15.0% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1959 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | #15 | — | 3.6 | — | — | — | -11.2 | -35.9% | Season summary |
| Air Force | 1958 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 90.9% | — | #6 | 14.8 | — | — | — | +14.2 | +55.9% | Season summary |
| Virginia | 1957 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 35.0% | — | — | 0.6 | — | — | — | +7.1 | +5.0% | Season summary |
| Virginia | 1956 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -6.5 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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Statistical comps
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